Overcoming OCD…Rohan’s Spectacular Recovery
Note: this blog is a continuation of my last blog: Overcoming OCD…how it all began.
My last blog featured Rohan* who had a debilitating nighttime fear of someone breaking into his house and taking him away.
Overcoming OCD…how it all began
When Rohan was five years old, he was outside playing with a friend, and a man walked through the alley. Rohan’s friend pointed at the man in the alley and said that the man was a kidnapper. Rohan ran into the house to find his mom. His mom assured him that he was safe, but Rohan was different from that day forward.
Post-Covid Crazies
Have you ever noticed that your brain gets a little (or a lot) more anxious, neurotic, depressed, etc. than usual when you get sick?
Why Kids Don’t Want to Learn Resilience Habits
There are reasons why kids might not want to take a self-compassion class:
– It’s not a video game.
– It’s not as fun as playing legos, playing make-believe or riding their bike.
But what is the good news? Kids who take my class…
“I’m in the Weeds”
The week preceding my teaching, I found myself in a particularly difficult mind state. I used all of my resilience tools to try to get myself mentally unstuck, but the troubled state of my mind did not budge. I was “in the weeds” when it came to helping myself feel better. So I surrendered, and instead of trying to help myself feel better…
Shame, Kids, and Grown-Ups
When I make a mistake, often times shame is in the room.
If you have taken the Feelings Habit Animal Quiz and read my article about the four feelings habit animals, you might remember that the deer is the feelings habit animal that is most correlated with shame.
What to Do When You’re Beating Yourself Up
I will share with you the tools I used to respond to my intense self-criticism. And I’ll use the Resilience Habit Animals to describe my process.
Meet the Resilience Habit Animals
Not only do we want kids to be aware of feelings, we also want them to learn to how to skillfully respond. Enter the Resilience Habit Animals…
Three Simple Ways to Help Kids Grow Self-Compassion
Self-compassion helps kids cope better with challenges and experience more well-being and self-esteem. But just how do we help kids to develop an inner self-compassionate voice? Here are three ways to do that…
What is Your Feelings Habit Animal?
There is nothing that can get a group of kids to roll their eyes like talking to them about feelings. The topic of feelings for most kids (and many grown-ups) is boring at best and painful at worst. When I instead begin the conversation about feelings by introducing the four feelings habit animals, I get a very different response from children: curiosity.