Hopeatwork Practice Inspiration

05/10/2022

🪴 Gelukkige Wêreld Onderwysersdag 🪴

“They may forget what you said, but they will not forget how you made them feel.”

08/05/2022

🤍 Gelukkige Moedersdag! 🤍

25/12/2021

Geseënde Kersfees vir elke persoon, groot en klein wat hierdie jaar my pad gekruis het. Mag vandag gevul wees met liefde, vrede en tonne herinneringe. Dankie vir julle ondersteuning. 🤍

12/10/2021

07/10/2021

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06/10/2021

Nie een persoon is dieselfde nie, wat nog te sê perfek. Daarom sal dit eenvoudig nie sinvol wees om te probeer om dieselfde stel reëls te volg om kinders groot te maak nie.
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𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐟𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞 - 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲. 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬.
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Our job is not to control unwanted behaviors, but to understand the feelings that caused the response and then co-regulate to help calm the emotional overwhelm.
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Verhoudings wat op vertroue gebaseer is, is bemagtigend. Kinders moet eers veilig voel binne die verhouding voordat jy enigsins ń invloed gaan hê.
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ń Verhouding wat op vrees gebaseer is mag jou tydelik in beheer laat voel, maar die gevaar bestaan dat jy vorentoe hierdie beheer mag verloor, tesame met ń opregte verhouding met jou kind.
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•Yolanda•

06/10/2021

Ｔｈｅｍｅ ｆｏｒ Ｏｃｔｏｂｅｒ

Our theme for October is YOU! The captain of the ship.😀

So stay tuned for lots of tips and tools that will help you rediscover your parent self.

With love,
•Yolanda•

05/10/2021

ℙ𝕒𝕣𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕥𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕥 🤍

Hierdie projek kuier al lank in my hart. En uiteindelik is dit tyd om dit te deel. 💫

💡 Every month a new 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞
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Parenting is not a 5 point plan. You have to make it your own.

So loer gerus hier van tyd tot tyd en deel dit met iemand wat jy d**k daarvan sal hou. 😀

Ｙｏｌａｎｄａ
www.hope-atwork.com

20/06/2021

18/06/2021

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07/06/2021

LONG CAPTION ALERT!!! NICE TO MEET YOU, I’M YOLANDA. 👋🏻

I’ll be honest. I am an Introvert. Those who are familiar with Extraversion and Introversion will know that socialising for an Introvert is not an instinct, but a skill set learned and applied with both effort and exhaustion. So this is me: being vulnerable on social media.
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I’m a true Afrikaans girl at heart. I try to include as many people as possible by posting in English. So for now, I will share who I am, and why I love what I’m doing, in English. Actually, it’s more of a passion. And it all started with a vision and got momentum with a prophesy. But let’s start at the beginning.
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It feels like a zillion years ago when I was still a bright-eyed social work student, with a dream to change the world. The reality was totally different, so it didn’t came as a surprise when my adorable husband believed during the early, volatile nineties, that his newlywed wife would be unsafe and that the corporate world was a much better option.
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But God knows the plans He has for us. So He made it a mission to call me back to a life of service, because “all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” Psalm 139. And so Hope@Work was born. Rom 12:12 became my vision while God clearly answered my prayers through a prophecy: Your home will be a place where broken hearts are healed. I have chosen you. At that specific moment, God’s presence felt tangible. Joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
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Since that day, I have worked hard to stay under God’s cloud of grace. To stop when the cloud stops and to move when the cloud moves. It hasn’t been an easy road, but every time I felt weary, God reminded me of the scripture in Isaiah 40:31 - But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
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This journey would not be the same without my super awesome family. Although it was a mission to get them all (insert dogs) together for this pic, they have been supportive every step of the way. They are my heart, my life, my all. They understand my love and passion for children, for the vulnerable and for the broken-hearted.
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During the month of June I will focus on the healing powers of play therapy as well as my vision and mission. So stay tuned and don’t go anywhere.

30/05/2021

22/05/2021

P L A Y F U L ▶️ M A Y

So this week I’ve popped the question and got married. Quite an eventful week in the playroom. 👰‍♀️🤵
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Play that occurs in a safe and supportive interpersonal environment allows us to temporarily suspend reality enough that we are better able to look at our life situations in a new way. Playing in the presence of another allows issues that are often out of sight, in our right hemispheres (stored as emotions, bodily feelings, patterns of action, and perceptions), to bubble to the surface, where we can experience them directly enough to arrange and rearrange them playfully in different patterns. Coupled with the caring eyes of another, play gives us the safety and the courage we need to look at the painful issues, in the symbolic language of play, and to dare to experience them in different ways. Playing within relationship creates safety automatically, for the most part, and safety is the first requirement for any long-lasting learning to occur.
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As Fred Rogers said: “Play allows us a safe distance as we work on what’s close to our hearts.”
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So next time, when you have your floor-time-moment with your little one, indulge yourself in your child’s pretend play. You might just be surprised with the narrative. 🤷🏻‍♀️

14/05/2021

▶️ P L A Y F U L • M A Y
This week has been as busy as a bee in the playroom. But luckily, we remembered to just stop... and breathe.

Blowing bubbles is just one way to teach your child to take control of the overwhelming feeling. When we feel overwhelmed we can’t think things through rationally and we get swept up in the emotional pull of our emotional brain.

When you stop, and take a deep breath in, and a nice slow and full outward breath, focusing on the air coming in and then going out, there is a lot of things happening.

✔️ Full, slow, and measured outward breaths activates part of our vagus nervous system that sends a signal to your brain to slow down the sympathetic nervous system (the accelerator) and increase the parasympathetic nervous system (the brakes).
✔️ Focusing on the breathing is activating your smart brain (cortex), drawing resources to it (blood and oxygen) and from the emotionally driven hijacker, your emotional brain.
✔️ As you focus on your breathing, this stimulates neuronal connections from your smart brain to your emotional brain, and if you do this enough on a regular basis, you will literally develop more and faster connections from your smart brain to your emotional brain, and that means better emotional control.

So next time you are overwhelmed, in a panic, anxious, nervous, think - STOP. BREATHE. And remember that there’s a lot going on in your favor when you do so.

09/05/2021

Is dit nie wonderlik dat mammas ń spesiale dag kry om bederf te word nie?☺️ Maar hierdie dag is nie dieselfde vir almal nie.

So as vandag moeilik is vir jou, doen wat nodig is vir jou om oukei te voel.

Be gentle with yourself 💛

09/05/2021

H A P P Y 🤍 M O T H E R ‘ S 🤍 D A Y
precious•beautiful•graceful•devoted•brave•protective

02/05/2021

Although most people seem to recognize play when they see it, an agreed-upon scientific definition of “play” has eluded professionals from many different fields.
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Play seems to be enjoyable for those engaging in it, and it often involves creativity, flexibility, risk taking, curiosity, adaptability, problem solving, and “flow”. Van Fleet, Sywulack & Sniscak, 2010.
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This clip has been seen many a times, but it still is a good one representing some of the characteristics of play. So let’s start tapping into that long forgotten spontaneity this week!
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With love, Yolanda

www.hope-atwork.org

01/05/2021

It’s the 1st of May and not only have we been celebrating Worker’s Day, but this is also the start of the month .
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So for the month of May, we will talk about all things play (and therapy 🤔). And because this is also my birth month, I will share a bit more about myself and why play therapy is my passion.
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So be sure to stay tuned for a little bit of information, and a whole lot of fun! And maybe I will throw in a surprise as well. 🤪

05/04/2021

When seeing hoe much his 4-year old son loved Frozen, this Dad purchased two Elsa costumes from Ebay, and the pair danced around the livig room to Let It Go.

‘It’s important to teach children that you can do whatever you want to do and not put prejudice all over them,” Burøe told the news outlet.”

A Norwegian comedian noticed how much his son loved "Frozen," so he decided to dress up with him as Elsa and dance.

22/03/2021

You are loved 💛

12/03/2021

K I N D N E S S 🦋

07/03/2021

22/02/2021