Origin Mental Health

09/28/2025

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09/24/2025

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“Children don’t leap from meltdown to calm on their own. They first need the steady presence of a caring adult to co-regulate, before learning the skills of self-regulation. And when things go wrong, repair is the bridge that restores connection and trust.”

OUR TOPIC is AFTER SCHOOL RESTRAINT COLLAPSE

Introducing the After School Restraint Collapse Toolkit for Parents & Educators - link in comments ⬇️

09/18/2025

We treat development like a race. As if the child who learns first will always be ahead, and the one who learns later will always be behind. But growth doesn’t work that way.

Children arrive at skills in their own time. And when they do, there’s no disadvantage for the ones who took longer to get there. What matters is the path they took: whether they were trusted to grow at their own pace, or pushed before they were ready.

Because readiness is everything. When we honour it, learning feels natural — like discovery. When we ignore it, learning turns heavy, and resentment can grow where curiosity should have lived. And those wounds are far harder to heal than the simple choice to wait.

This is why trust matters. Trusting the process. Trusting your child.

Because when readiness and opportunity finally meet, learning doesn’t just build ability. It builds confidence. It builds joy. And it builds a love of growth that will carry them for life. ❤️

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08/02/2025

It’s easy to forget how sacred the ordinary is
when the world keeps spinning madly.

It’s a quiet kind of privilege — to hold our children close, to offer them peace in a world that doesn’t always feel peaceful.

May we never forget how sacred that is.

And may we raise them with care, so they grow into the kind of people who protect what should never have been at risk.

For every child. Everywhere. Always. ❤️

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Every stage of parenting brings its own challenges.
Some feel loud. Some feel lonely. Some feel never-ending.

We’re all doing our best with what we’ve got.
So let’s stop comparing and start supporting.

If you’re in the thick of it right now—I see you. You’re not alone. 💛

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May the odds be ever in your favor. 🫡