Sydella Jayne: Play, Art and Creative Therapy Training Network

17/09/2025

17/09/2025

As parents, our goal isn’t to shield our kids from every challenge but to guide them through it. We don’t want to raise children who never struggle; we want to raise children who know how to rise when they do. Struggle builds grit, resilience, and character, but it’s our presence, compassion, and consistency that teach them grace. We become their safe place, not to remove the storm, but to help them find strength within it.

17/09/2025

Unfortunately, a lot of parents still believe it’s their child’s behaviour that needs to change, but most often, it is actually the parent’s reaction to the behaviour that needs to change first.

In a lot of cases, parents actually need to change their reaction to their child’s behaviour, if they want the behaviour to change. But what they will find through that journey is often more empathy for their child, a greater emotional capacity for their child’s emotional needs. It often begins as a pursuit to change behaviour and ends up in a deeper understanding of our child’s behaviour and our own.

Want to start this journey?

Learn more about this in my latest book 👇
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Finding Your Calm: A Responsive Parents Guide to Self-Regulation and Co-Regulation⁣⁣
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17/09/2025

Our children are always watching us, not just our words, but our actions, our tone, our patience, and how we recover when we make mistakes. The way we handle life becomes the model they carry into their own. You don’t have to be perfect, you just have to be real, loving, and willing to grow.

14/09/2025

For sure ❤️

We talk a lot about generational trauma — and it’s real. Patterns of pain and survival can ripple through families, shaping the way love is given, withheld, or misunderstood.

But what we don’t talk about enough is this: healing is just as contagious. Love is just as generational. The way we learn to pause, to regulate, to apologize, to tell the truth in kindness — all of that is inheritance too.

Every time we choose compassion over control, repair over rupture, presence over distraction, we aren’t just shifting our own story — we’re altering the story our children will carry forward.

Trauma may echo through generations, but so can wisdom. So can resilience. So can love that feels safe and steady.

We are not only breaking cycles — we are building new ones. And that is a legacy worth passing on. ❤️

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13/09/2025

Quick fixes can stop behaviour temporarily.
But it’s connection that truly transforms how children respond, learn, and grow.

When a child feels safe, seen, and understood, they’re more likely to regulate themselves, take guidance, and build trust that lasts.

Correction may quiet the behaviour.
Connection reshapes the relationship. 💕

✨ More tools in my book Guidance from The Therapist Parent:
www.thetherapistparent.com | Amazon

13/09/2025

The child you have is your calling, your purpose, and the perfect match for your heart 🥹

13/09/2025

Beautiful

Choose the woman with trauma...

Choose the woman who has weathered life's storms.

Choose the woman who rose from a broken foundation.

Choose the woman who found strength when those meant to love her failed.

Choose the woman whose passion sometimes overflows.

Choose the woman who becomes your fiercest defender.

Choose the woman whose heart feels everything deeply.

Choose the woman who speaks truth even when it's uncomfortable.

Choose the woman who lifts you up during your darkest moments.

Choose her because someone who has fought for their own healing knows how to fight for love itself, and will offer you a devotion that runs soul-deep.

13/09/2025

WOW....

12/09/2025

❤️❤️❤️

12/09/2025

Institute of Child Psychology 🩵