Use the smell of your morning coffee or tea to remind you to take some deep breaths to start your day. When there is global and national unrest, we all experience a nagging anxiety that just won’t seem to go away even when we are not consciously thinking about the conflicts around us. It’s important …
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Category: Building a Positive Family Environment, Modeling Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Dealing with Anxiety, Empathy, global unrest anxiety, managing stress, parenting and stress, parenting and stress management, parenting tension, self-care, Self-compassion, Stress management
Once there was a tree and she loved a little boy… – The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein When my son E turned seven in September, we hosted a party with all of his friends at our local park. I created a treasure hunt with clues hidden behind the many trees so that children could …
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Category: Building a Positive Family Environment, Modeling Social and Emotional Skills, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Compassion, Connectedness, forgiveness, Judgements, Kindness, Living legacy, Presence, Random acts of kindness, Random Acts of Kindness Foundation, Random Acts of Kindness week, reparation, Self-compassion, Shel Silverstein, Similarities, The Giving Tree
Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. – Tori Amos When a parent gets sick, life goes on. Kids have to get up and get ready for school. Lunches must be packed. Homework has to get accomplished. It can be a real struggle …
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Category: Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: Anxiety, Depression, Emotional boundaries, Empathy, forgiveness, Healing, Mental health, Parenting and sickness, Recovery, Security, Self awareness, Self-compassion, Transitions
Love yourself first and everything else falls in line. – Lucille Ball There were so many interesting reader reactions to last week’s article on “Unconditional Love and Attention” that I felt it was important to take the issue one step further this week. One reader asked, “Isn’t unconditional love of self a pre-condition or critical …
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