Pamela Foley - Supporting Children's Emotional Wellbeing

25/05/2026

🌿 A simple calming activity for children 🌿

Sometimes children need help getting out of their busy thoughts and back into their body.

Try this simple activity together:

✨ Name 3 ✨

Ask your child to slowly name:
🤍 3 things they can see
🤍 3 things they can hear
🤍 3 things they can feel

You can make it playful:
🌿 “I can see the lamp.”
🌿 “I can hear birds.”
🌿 “I can feel my feet on the floor.”

This gentle activity can help children:

• slow down racing thoughts
• feel more present
• reconnect with their surroundings
• calm their body and brain

Simple grounding moments can make a big difference 🤍

21/05/2026

Mindful Me Workshop - Fully Booked 🌿

I’m so grateful for the support for these workshops. All spaces are now filled 🤍

There has been a lot of interest and messages about further spaces and I hope to run another workshop very soon. I’ll make sure to let everyone on the waiting list know once this is confirmed.

Thank you so much to everyone who shared, recommended and booked. I can’t wait to meet the lovely children attending 🌿

✨ Mindful Me Workshop ✨

A calm, fun and supportive workshop created to help children feel safe, confident and connected while learning more about their emotions and wellbeing 🌈

Through gentle activities, games, mindfulness, movement and creative play, children will be encouraged to explore feelings, build confidence and develop simple tools to support them with everyday worries and big emotions 🤍

This workshop will support children to:

✨ Build confidence and emotional resilience
✨ Encourage connection and friendships
✨ Learn calming and mindfulness techniques
✨ Explore emotions in a safe, supportive space
✨ Develop healthy ways to manage big feelings

Limited spaces available, so booking is essential through the links below 👇

Please feel free to share with any parents or carers who feel their child may benefit 🌱

Pamela 🤍

Preschool - Primary 2
https://bookwhen.com/pamela-wellbeing/e/ev-sloe8-20260606121500

Primary 3 - Primary 7
https://bookwhen.com/pamela-wellbeing/e/ev-s4e38-20260606140000

17/05/2026

✨ Mindful Me Workshop ✨

A calm, fun and supportive workshop created to help children feel safe, confident and connected while learning more about their emotions and wellbeing 🌈

Through gentle activities, games, mindfulness, movement and creative play, children will be encouraged to explore feelings, build confidence and develop simple tools to support them with everyday worries and big emotions 🤍

This workshop will support children to:

✨ Build confidence and emotional resilience
✨ Encourage connection and friendships
✨ Learn calming and mindfulness techniques
✨ Explore emotions in a safe, supportive space
✨ Develop healthy ways to manage big feelings

Limited spaces available, so booking is essential through the links below 👇

Please feel free to share with any parents or carers who feel their child may benefit 🌱

Pamela 🤍

Preschool - Primary 2
https://bookwhen.com/pamela-wellbeing/e/ev-sloe8-20260606121500

Primary 3 - Primary 7
https://bookwhen.com/pamela-wellbeing/e/ev-s4e38-20260606140000

14/05/2026

Some children don’t stop thinking.

They replay conversations.
Worry about friendships.
Try to work everything out.
Ask lots of questions because their minds are searching for certainty.

These children are not “too sensitive”.
They are deeply aware 🤍

One of the most powerful things we can teach them is that not every feeling needs fixed, solved or figured out straight away.

Sometimes children simply need:
• reassurance
• connection
• calm
• space to feel safe

And slowly, over time, they begin to learn:

“I can feel worried and still be okay” 🤍

09/05/2026

Sometimes children don’t need every answer straight away.

Sometimes they just need a calm grown-up beside them while they work through the feeling 🤍

Emotional wellbeing isn’t built in one big moment.

It grows in the small everyday moments:
• the cuddles
• the patience
• the repair after hard moments
• the “I’m here” again and again

Those little moments matter more than you realise 🌱

05/05/2026

Some children don’t have the words to say,
“I’m feeling anxious.”

So instead, they say:
“I don’t want to go.”
“My tummy hurts.”
“Can you stay with me?”
“I can’t do it.”

Behind those words is often a child who feels overwhelmed, worried, unsure, or afraid of getting something wrong.

Children don’t need perfect responses from us.

They need calm adults who help them feel safe, understood, and supported through the hard moments 🤍

The more we understand what children’s behaviour might be communicating, the more connected and emotionally safe they can begin to feel.

If you’ve heard any of these phrases lately, you are not alone.

Sometimes understanding the feeling behind the behaviour can change everything 🤍

01/05/2026

Some gentle reminders from my 1:1 sessions this week 🤍

Children don’t always have the words to explain what’s going on inside.

Sometimes it can look like:
• needing extra reassurance
• big feelings that come quickly
• finding change tricky
• lots of energy and movement
• struggling to slow down after a busy day
• needing time, patience and connection

This week we explored emotions through play, movement, creativity, stories and calming activities🌿

And one thing I always come back to is this:

Children don’t need perfection.
They need safe spaces, understanding, and adults who help them feel calm, seen and supported.

The small moments matter more than we realise 🤍

26/04/2026

Sometimes children can’t explain what they’re feeling.

So instead, we might see it through:

• shouting
• refusing
• crying
• withdrawing
• getting frustrated quickly
• having big reactions over “small” things

But behaviour is often only the part we can see.

Underneath, there may be worry, overwhelm, tiredness, fear, frustration, or a child who simply doesn’t yet know how to manage what’s happening inside.

When we pause and look beneath the behaviour, we can begin to support the feeling underneath.

That’s where real emotional growth begins 🤍

23/04/2026

Big feelings can come out in big ways.

But underneath it all, children are just trying to tell us something they don’t yet have the words for.

When we understand that, we can support them in a way that actually helps 🤍

17/04/2026

Yesterday I spent the day in three different primary schools, supporting Primary 1 and Primary 2 children with calm and self-regulation 🤍

We talked about how big feelings (like worry, frustration or excitement) can make our bodies feel fast and busy… and how we can help them slow down.

One simple technique we practised:
🌸 Smell the flower (slow breath in through your nose)
🕯️ Blow the candle (gentle breath out through your mouth)

A really simple tool children can use at school, at home, or whenever those big feelings start to feel a bit overwhelming 🤍