Soul Path Play Therapy Service London

24/07/2024

Endings are difficult, specially when it's a little person you got a special bond with.. 😢

21/06/2024

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07/06/2024

Children too ❤️

27/05/2024

The Therapist Parent 💕
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We can take connection for granted. The bonds you have in your relationships are not permanent. Disconnection happens when we don't keep working on our relationships, or when something hurtful happens to break the trust. Keeping connection doesn't mean that we have to make huge gestures, it is built on small moments throughout the day. But it is easy to be so busy throughout the day providing the basics that we can forget the importance of these moments of connection.

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21/05/2024

Mirroring 😊
"Okay, you can follow me, do what I do, I will give you some magnets" He said when we were having a brain break from Maths.

I joined in and followed his lead. Look what we created. We didn't speak much other than handing over magnets to each other.

At the end, he joined both together with a bright smile on his face. We had few magnets left, I asked if we could add them on top. He agreed.

When we were done, he was very happy to return to learning Maths .♥️

19/05/2024

This was the Mental health awareness week:
After attending an Inter-, Multi-generational Trauma training this week, I feel this is the what, I want to reflect upon 👇🏾

According to Dr.Dan Siegel, "name it to tame it."

Naming our emotions and pain by either putting it to words or using a creative outlet can help to reduce the force of unpleasant emotions.❤️

18/05/2024

15/05/2024

Only yesterday, I walked into a school to provide therapy and my sons words started echoing in my ears, when he used to go to school.
I still feel so much pain thinking how I kept dropping him back at the same place.
He is safe with me now.♥️
His words at age 6 "MUM, SCHOOL IS A GLORIFIED PRISON, PLEASE KEEP ME AT HOME"

13/05/2024

Tea with bubbles 😅
Joys of working as a Play Therapist is buying things you secretly want to play, with no questions asked 🤭

09/05/2024

In their own time and space, can't say it better.

Just keep them safe until then.

05/05/2024

03/05/2024

Looking forward to a full day of Inter-Generational Trauma training, something I believe is more common than we realise. Next Saturday, 😊

A brilliant new day with Karen that focuses on some of the less frequently explored areas of trauma : inter-, trans-, and multigenerational as well as inherited and historical trauma […]

29/04/2024

27/04/2024

I was a mama gorilla and my baby always had a long peaceful sleep.
Having said that, there can be other reasons children struggle to sleep but feeling safe is a big reason for them to struggle at night ❤️

26/04/2024

If you have been reading my posts or if you know me in person you know my son is a big reason I do what I do.

I have shared about our happy moments but I want to share something different today.

We have been having a few bad days and sometimes as a parent, I go to bed feeling as if I have not been able to make him feel okay.

My therapist self would have told someone in a similar situation, that it's not my job to make him feel happy always but as a parent, this isn't easy to process.

So after having a few bad days, trying to talk, and help an emotionally dysregulated teen, I decided to let go of the need to make it okay and just be next to him.

On this day, after travelling almost 1hr for his lessons and paying for tuition etc, he just decides that he doesn't want to do it and says he wants to leave. So we take 2 trains back home. 🤭

Any other day would have ended differently but we didn't speak much other than me saying, "I am not mad at you, just want you to know you can speak to me when you are ready."

We reach home and he still isn't speaking but decides to go for Martial Arts that he has missed a few weeks.

It's almost bedtime and as I turn the lights off, I hear a knock on my door.

" Mum, I just had a massive mood today and going for training really knocked those nonsensical thoughts out of me, I really need to keep more active."

I have been trying to say this to him every single day for the past few years but never realised that he needed the time to realise this by himself. This was only possible when I gave him the space and respected his decision to leave when he wanted to leave earlier in the day.

This is only the beginning, we are going to have so many hurdles on the way but I wanted to share how important it is not to blame children who are already struggling to make sense of their world and themselves.

Respect their Autonomy as they too want to do their best every single day.

Thank you for reading x

Shafinaz ❤️

24/04/2024

Anything can be anything for a child with an amazing imagination.They have the freedom to imagine we adults would have lost, due to societal conditioning.
Let's not do the same to our children.
Let the sky be pink, if needed ❤️

22/04/2024

"In my darkest days, I couldn't reach out.
Lets stop telling people to reach out and start reaching in"

When we are at our lowest, we are not so nice to be around but that's when those who love us need to remember the best version of us and remind us too.

20/04/2024

I hope you are kindest to yourself ❤️