Nancy W. Thomas, LPC

11/19/2024

Trauma memories are often fragmented and involve intense emotional responses

For more content on trauma therapy, visit: http://www.amazon.com/Robert-T.-Muller/e/B0033AFO5A

06/03/2024

Identify Gottman Four Horsemen in your conflict discussions, eliminate them and replace them with healthy, productive communication patterns.

08/29/2023

A stormy looking sunrise from Sunrise from St Augustine Beach, Florida.

06/12/2023

THESE CALMING STRATEGIES ARE PROVEN EFFECTIVE AND ARE RESEARCH-BASED

These strategies are grounded in neuroscience that focus on physical movements and activities for organizing sensory input to the brain and nervous system.

https://parentswithconfidence.com/calm-down-strategies-for-kids/

04/25/2023

A Dozen Ways to Co-Regulate With Your Child

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IN THE RESOURCE STORE

CALMING STRATEGIES

Young people can work through their personalised strategies, making a visual reminder. Includes a template for a version which can then be laminated to create a keyring resource, especially useful as a reminder in school.

Calm Cards will work well during this activity, also available.

Download at https://thecontentedchild.co.uk/product/calming-strategies/

04/08/2023

Bil Hitchcock, so glad to see one of your stories published in the new “Indy” magazine! Great job!

04/07/2023

04/07/2023

The goal is not to perfect yourself.
The goal is to perfect your Kindness...

~ Jack Kornfield
Artwork by Tara Shannon

04/07/2023

Destructive communication styles tear down relationships one conversation at a time. Criticism and defensiveness usually show up together in a familiar attack/defend cycle. Both partners try desperately to express themselves, and neither feel heard or understood.

Join Certified Gottman Therapist, Laura Silverstein, to learn how to escape this attack/defend cycle once you're in it, or, even better, how to avoid entering it in the first place. Register today: https://bit.ly/3xQu5GH

04/07/2023

Practice these strategies with your children when they are calm so that become instinctual when an upsetting moment occurs.

Image via @ Lexi Bradley, The Connected Parent ❤️