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Tips for Helping Kids Handle Their Emotions

…ren are ruled by their emotional right brain and their logical left brain. Helping children to understand and integrate both sides of their brain equips them with an invaluable tool that enables them to lead a more balanced, emotionally stable, and mentally healthy life. Even though our goal is to raise calm and happy kids, very often we make mistakes in the moments when our children are at their most vulnerable. For example, when our kids throw t…

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Tips for Helping Kids Handle Their Emotions

…ren are ruled by their emotional right brain and their logical left brain. Helping children to understand and integrate both sides of their brain equips them with an invaluable tool that enables them to lead a more balanced, emotionally stable, and mentally healthy life. Even though our goal is to raise calm and happy kids, very often we make mistakes in the moments when our children are at their most vulnerable. For example, when our kids throw t…

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Tips for Helping Your Child Handle Emotions

…ren are ruled by their emotional right brain and their logical left brain. Helping children to understand and integrate both sides of their brain equips them with an invaluable tool that enables them to lead a more balanced, emotionally stable, and mentally healthy life. Even though our goal is to raise calm and happy kids, very often we make mistakes in the moments when our children are at their most vulnerable. For example, when our kids throw t…

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If a tree falls in a forest, should I get out of the way?

…is responsible for all their internal experiences. As parents, we need to help our children move beyond simply reporting events, to recognizing how they feel about them and learning what these feelings mean. When they are little, we help our children learn what their bodily signals mean, if you are cold it means you need to put on a coat, if you are hungry it means you need to eat and if you are tired it means you need to go to bed. As our childr…

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Compulsive Liars: The Truth About Lying

…nal pain and hurting others, who are not sociopathic. A good therapist can help us heal, regardless of our particular circumstances. Here is a helpful resource for finding a therapist. Whether we are concerned about a person who may be sociopathic or we are dealing with dishonesty in some other manner, we can learn skills to identify a deceptive person. Knowledge is power that may spare us from experiencing real losses, great and small. How to Spo…

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Helpful Books for Suicide Prevention:

…Brain Was Trying to Kill Me A Parent’s Guide for Suicidal and Depressed Teens Every Parent’s Guide to Understanding Teenagers and Suicide: Recognize the Hidden Signs…

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VIDEO: Dr. Allan Schore on the Role of Shame in Suicide

…lan Schore. Dr. Allan Schore talks about the role of shame in the roots of suicide. Dr. Allan Schore: I do not feel that suicide is about guilt. It’s about something much deeper, much more fundamental. Shame of course is not verbal. It’s visually being seen in the eyes of the others, etc., non-verbal communications of shame, gaze aversions, the triggers to shame. And so that affect still has not been appreciated. Now that’s a problem because as an…

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VIDEO: Dr. Allan Schore on Inter-Generational Transmission of Trauma and Suicide

…working in the heart of the inter-generational transmission of trauma and suicide. Dr. Allan Schore: There is now pretty good evidence that the attachment mechanism cuts across all species, all mammals. So we’re looking at the same mechanism here. But, essentially what we are now thinking of is that a female learns how to be a mother to her infant through her own early experiences of being an infant to her own mother. Because when she was an infa…

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Are You the Parent You Want to Be?

…their potential as unique individuals, and the better able we will be to nurture them throughout the process. To read more about differentiation in Dr. Firestone’s latest book, The Self under Siege. [SlideDeck2 id=15697]…

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Self-Consciousness: How to Reduce Self-Consciousness

…ng with us can come from early feelings of shame, fear, or frustration. As Dr. Lisa Firestone said: Our critical inner voices are embedded in our earliest childhood experiences and are reinforced throughout childhood, adolescence, and into adulthood. While the negative inner voice can be affected and sometimes worsened by current day life experiences such as significant trauma or abusive relationships, it does not develop suddenly in adults; it’s…

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