Welcome to the Hand and Heart Somatic Experiencing Meditation. Hands are intricately connected to the heart. For example, your hands express the love that is in your heart. They welcome, comfort, hold, and assist. Alternately, hands protect the heart. They block, guide, and circumnavigate whatever is or can be harmful to you. This hand and heart somatic […]
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Dr. Jodi: (Voice over) This role-play was created as a sample of the Interview with Anxiety activity from the COMPASS Curriculum. In it, Elton, the WCALM news anchor, interviews Anxiety, in attempts to expose it for the fraud it is. After a few minutes of challenging Anxiety, Elton turns to Sonic, a higher schooler, to
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A growth mindset empowers you to develop your skills and abilities. Everyone has the power for growth and development. However, people with a fixed mindset don’t see that. A “fixed mindset” is thinking you are who you are and cannot change. People with a fixed mindset are more likely to: Alternately, people with a growth
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There is a growing problem in the world today. Our young people are feeling out of control, unworthy and powerless. This causes so many problems for them and for our culture as a whole. Here is what teens say they are up against: That’s why I wrote Anxiety…I’m So Done with You! To empower teens
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When you want to know the things kids need to be happy, you have to first look at what makes them unhappy. When I gathered a teen focus group to help me come up with a title for my upcoming workbook for young people, this is what they listed as the major problems they were
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How are you handling holiday stress? One definition of stress is feeling a big responsibility for something, while you also feel like you have little to no control over it. Like with many of the things that come with the holidays: Family or work parties you are expected to attend. Dealing with old traumas related
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Since my recent TEDxWilmington talk was only 10 minutes, I wrote a few blogs to cover what I didn’t get to share in it. Today I am expanding about the resistance and complaining that kids do when asked to do chores. Because that shizzle is real! You can check out some of my other TEDx
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Kids hate chores. Of course they do. I don’t prefer doing them much either! I’d rather relax and do fun activities with my friends. Luckily, because of my life experience I’m able to see the long and short term benefits of chores that young people usually haven’t learned yet. This helps me do them because
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