Healing Hearts Through Play

Healing Hearts Through Play Through play therapy, we aim to help children with difficulties, express themselves, in order for them to reach their full potential in life

07/02/2025
27/06/2024

Parenting in Process 💕

30/05/2024

The Family Systems Hub 💕

Naming the emotions we see in a child is incredibly powerful for some children. Here's one of the reasons why...

Note: Sometimes we get stuck on words and can’t see that it can hold other meanings. Again this reinforces perception. ‘Seeing’ isn’t just through the eyes. It can be through our other senses. Ultimately this post is about the felt sense of naming emotions. Looking beyond the surface and feeling into what is underneath that we are picking up through our nervous systems.

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28/04/2024

How would you define emotional intelligence? 🧐

When I define emotional intelligence, I define it as the capacity to BE with.
But be with what?…

The capacity to be with our sensations, our feelings, and our thoughts that arise in any given moment. What I’m describing is our capacity to regulate. Our ability to connect or to regulate in the midst of whatever experience we’re having.

It’s not about being calm. It’s not about having a particular experience in our feelings, thoughts, or body.
It is about being able to be with any and all experiences that arise in any given moment.

And it’s one of the most important and hardest things to develop in ourselves.
Take a moment and think about an emotion that is typically challenging for you to experience. When this emotion arises in you- are you able to connect to yourself in the midst of it? Or do you want to run away from it, ignore it, push the feeling down, or pretend you aren’t having the feeling? What do you do?…

Whatever you do is not right or wrong; it’s simply information to help you get curious about your areas for growth as you’re developing your own capacity, expanding your windows of tolerance, and developing greater and greater levels for your own emotional intelligence.

Because when we learn how to connect to ourselves rather than expecting ourselves to calm down (which is a hard thing in and of itself), we learn some key things…

…We learn that we’re okay in the midst of our experiences. We don’t have to run away. Or that even when things feel challenging, we can still move toward that intensity. It allows us to expand our window of tolerance and engage in life at a deeper level because we get to experience a wider range of the fullness of emotional activity – to feel more alive, more connected with life itself, more connected with our own body, and our own being.

It’s also one of the main goals of play therapy! We’re helping to develop within children larger and larger states of emotional intelligence. This is what we’re up to with kids – it’s not about calming them or ourselves. Instead we’re supporting children in learning how to be with any and all experiences that arise.

♡ Lisa

Image from Neurochild Community 💕

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Playing together is so important 🩵
12/03/2024

Playing together is so important 🩵

12/03/2024

Mona Delahooke, Ph.D. 💕

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19/02/2024

Diversity Kids 💕

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02/01/2024
21/12/2023

Robyn Gobbel - Trauma, Toxic Stress, & Baffling Behaviors 💕

22/11/2023
16/08/2023

"If we don't work with our own activation first, then how we respond to our children is really often an attempt to get them to stop so that we don't have to feel uncomfortable - which is not where true connection comes from." - Lisa Dion💕

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26/07/2023

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11/07/2023

Peaceful Mind Peaceful Life 💕


As adults we can be a strong foundation of calm, patience, understanding, resilience, and love so our children can feel safe and secure, while they learn how to create their own foundations of power.

(Children don't say, "I had a hard day, can we talk?" They say, "Will you come play with me?" Read it again. Really hits home. -Lawrence Cohen)

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09/07/2023

Gabor Maté 💕

"If our environment cannot support our gut feelings and our emotions, then the child, in order to 'belong' and 'fit in' will automatically, unwittingly and unconsciously suppress their emotions and their connections to themselves, for the sake of staying connected to the nurturing environment, without which the child cannot survive."

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06/07/2023

“Compassionate people ask for what they need. They say no when they need to, and when they say yes, they mean it. They're compassionate because their boundaries keep them out of resentment.” ― Brené Brown

25/06/2023

Yes! 💕Jayson Gaddis
Many people think that secure attachment, or secure relationships, are built through finding the right person that doesn’t trigger you.
This erroneous belief keeps people stuck in fantasies about relationships that go nowhere and lead to heartbreak.

The truth is, security is built through constant mis-reads, disconnections, mismatches, and followed up with repair and reconnection.
In other words, through what I call the “conflict-repair cycle.”

Secure relationships are built by repairing and reconnecting after two people disagree, distance, fight, argue, or mis-read each other.
Always return and repair together, and security is in fact, your reward.
.. Same for the parent-child relationship 💕

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Healing Hearts Through Play

Children communicate though play and so Play Therapy helps children understand, express and deal with emotional and behavioural problems. Often children find it difficult to talk about feelings or experiences and so can use play to express themselves. Play therapy gives a child a safe space to “play out” their feelings of inadequacy, fears, loneliness, failures and struggles. It aims to develop self-awareness, self-respect, decision making and gives the child the space to accept themselves and express their feelings responsibly. Children learn and develop their brains through play. When a child feels safe, they are able to take risks, have healthy relationships, explore and try new things.

Therapeutic Play can help any child who has mild to severe difficulties and is not reaching their full potential, or: - has nightmares or disturbed sleep - has social difficulties or is withdrawn - suffers from anxiety, stress or phobias - bullying - family troubles i.e. separation - has experienced loss - has suffered trauma - is ill - battles to make friends or play - displays inappropriate behaviour.

Belinda has a B. Ed (Foundation) Degree and has 10 years teaching experience. She is also a Qualified Life Coach and EQ Brain Profiler. She develops and teaches an Emotional Development program and is also on the board of a Private Primary School in Amanzimtoti. Belinda is a member of Play Therapy International and is currently doing her clinical hours for her Post graduate Diploma in Play Therapy. She is currently a Therapeutic Play Practitioner under the supervision of PTI, which is affiliated to Leeds University in the United Kingdom.