Rise and Shine Counselling & Play Therapy

09/05/2026

How to powerfully instil a vital emotional regulation, resilience and social skill in our children.
Pairing learning with singing. Once rehearsed, children typically recall the words automatically.
Parents/caregivers who also sing it or play the song from time to time will be deepening their childs learning, acceptance, and belief in the lyrics.

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08/05/2026

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Source Institute of Child Psychology

Children are always watching… not just what we say, but how we live.

They notice the tone in your voice, the way you speak about yourself, how you repair after mistakes, and how you show up when things feel hard. These “little things” are actually the blueprint they use to build their own inner voice, relationships, and sense of self.

This is how emotional safety is taught.
This is how self-worth is learned.

Not through perfect parenting—but through consistent, human moments of awareness, repair, and connection. 💛

So the next time you feel like it’s the small things… you’re right.
They’re small—but they’re shaping everything.

07/05/2026

You may have heard it already ... how you speak about yourself, is who you are.
Examine your concious. Notice the unhelpful, negative, debilitating, constrictive phrases/comments/names/or labels you say about yourself :(

Here's a strategy to reframe your self deprecation and kick start motivation and change.

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Source MindPsy Guidance

21/04/2026

We all have an attachment style, it forms in early childhood. Many people are unaware of it, let alone, which attachment style they have. There are four attachment styles—Secure, Anxious (Preoccupied), Avoidant (Dismissive), and Disorganized (Fearful-Avoidant)—define how individuals behave in relationships based on early bonding with caregivers. Secure types are comfortable with intimacy and independence, while anxious, avoidant, and disorganized types, often stemming from inconsistent or distant care, represent insecure attachment.

When it comes to friendships and committed relationships, the attachment styles of each of the people involved will be extremely impactful! Often we hear people lament about their friend's or partner's/spouse's personality traits being problematic when in reality, it could be their attachment-styles at logger-heads.

This video shows one person with anxios attachment style, the other with avoidant. Each KNOWS their style and each KNOWS how to respectfullycommunicate their NEEDS.

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SOURCE Relationshios with Aly

17/04/2026

Interpersonal Effectiveness using DEARMAN to increase our assertiveness, boundary protection, and respectful communication.
This is a DBT skill commonly role playied in sessions, here.

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Source Jemma Doley

I'm Jemma Doley, Registered Psychologist, making mental health and positive psychology videos. Do you want to get better at asking for what you want? The D...

17/04/2026

In most cases, we recommend body-based regulation before talking or mind-based calming techinques.

Co-regulation techniques (parent with child) before self-regulation (child only), introduced very early into children's lives.

Role model your own calming strategies infront of your children. They will learn and value and normalise these strategies by regularly witnessing their parents soothing themselves. Parents could model: deep breathing, drink glass of water, butterfly hug, tense/shake/release hands/arms/legs/feet, star jumps, cold-pack onto forehead and back of neck, sit outside - in nature for a few minutes (or look out the window), scribble on paper, ask for a tight hug, doing the 5-4-3-2-1 Mindful observation etc

Co-regulation techniques best practiced in time of calm/stability, not at point of escalation.

"But it's not working!" Ok, try others.
Keep practicing together in times of stability, and keep role modelling your own calming techniques infront of children.

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Source A Kids Table

15/04/2026

The recent report of the NSW inquiry into harmful po*******hy laid out clear steps for state and federal governments to take; but without leadership, we will continue outsourcing children’s s*x education to the p**n industry.