Mindset Counseling Solutions

10/01/2025

Ever wondered why worries can feel so overwhelming?

Today we’re zooming in on the brain – specifically, the amygdala. This tiny part of the brain plays a huge role in how children experience fear, stress and anxiety.

Our posts today break down the amygdala’s role in worry, helping you see what’s happening beneath the surface.

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Toolkit to accompany our new series:
When Worries Take Over: Supporting Children With Everyday Worries
The Toolkit for Parents & Educators contains parent information sheets which capture the content of our posts over the series as well as tools, resources and activities to support them young person.

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09/29/2025

Trauma doesn't make people stronger. It is not a gift, a lesson, or some twisted path to growth. Trauma wounds the body, mind, and spirit. It damages the nervous system so that a person’s body is no longer a safe place to live in. It hijacks the digestive tract, throws off hormones, and reshapes the brain to be on constant alert. What was once peace turns into hypervigilance — a loop of survival where the mind never fully rests.

Trauma convinces you that danger is always around the corner, even in calm moments. It robs sleep, appetite, joy, and ease. And yet, people are told, “You’re stronger because of what you went through.” But that’s not strength. That’s endurance. That’s survival. And survival comes with a heavy price — broken trust, nervous system exhaustion, and the painful work of putting the pieces back together.

To tell someone they are stronger because of trauma is to dismiss the cost it demanded. It overlooks the panic attacks, the chronic pain, the self-doubt, the endless fight to feel normal again. Trauma doesn’t forge strength — it strips it away. The person standing here today is not “better” because of what was done to them. They are here in spite of it. That resilience is theirs, not the trauma’s. And that distinction matters.

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09/27/2025

Today, we know more about mental health than ever before, but traditional medicine still mistakes subtle signs of trauma for stress, anxiety, or chronic disease—sometimes even retraumatizing patients with outdated and misguided methods. Treatment plans that focus on the mind are only addressin...

09/26/2025

Self-regulation is taught through co-regulation. Those who do not receive enough co-regulation, as a young child, may not develop many self-regulation skills. Instead, they may suppress or react to emotions that make them uncomfortable.

The pathways in our brains that tell our bodies and minds what to do with certain emotions, are set in early childhood. The pathways that develop into self-regulation are created through co-regulation. Without enough co-regulation, different pathways are made and self-regulation becomes harder because our brains want to do what we’ve always done… what works. It takes so much intentional effort to stop yourself from taking that well-worn pathway and trying something else.

What’s your go-to? Suppression, reaction or regulation?

Learn all about this process 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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09/18/2025

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09/16/2025

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