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Tag: Trauma

This is Hard

February 18, 2023
Self Care for Adults, Why RIE?

I don’t have an in-depth RIE in Real Life story this week because, despite my best intentions, I still really […]

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Dealing With Difficult Emotions

March 7, 2021
Self Care for Adults

Taking care of difficult feelings. That was the title of the chapter we discussed last week in the Raising Good […]

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Post Traumatic Growth

February 7, 2021
Self Care for Adults, Talking with Young Children, Why RIE?

In late January I listened to an excellent webinar, put on by Minding the Baby called The Relational Foundations of […]

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How to Talk to Children When the News is Scary

January 7, 2021
Talking with Young Children

My logical brain knew that a simple turning of the calendar page, the passing of an arbitrary marker of time […]

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Compassion

October 24, 2020
Self Care for Adults

If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not capable of developing compassion for others.-Dalai Lama Another beautiful, […]

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The Power of Showing Up

September 17, 2020
Talking with Young Children, Why RIE?

Last night’s all too brief webinar with Dan Siegel was a really excellent cliff’s note version of the book, The […]

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Staying Socially Connected

September 12, 2020
Self Care for Adults

I called my Grandmother today. It was a quick call, prompted because I wasn’t sure if her electronic picture frame […]

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Safe Spaces

September 2, 2020
Self Care for Adults

My recent piece about trauma was one of my most-responded to articles to date. I expect one of the reasons […]

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Helping Children Recover from Trauma

August 29, 2020
Talking with Young Children

This week I talked to a mom who watched her child go through a life-threatening trauma. I won’t get into […]

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Safety

July 30, 2020
Slowing Down, Talking with Young Children

So, safety was already on my mind because I’ve been reading The Power of Showing Up, another gem by Tina […]

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Talking to Children about Protests and Racism

June 3, 2020
Talking with Young Children

What follows isn’t what I set out to write about today. A few days ago someone posted a screencapture of […]

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Hope

April 22, 2020
Talking with Young Children

Just a short email today to let you know about a wonderful resource for your family…it’s a children’s book written […]

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Screentime vs Facetime, Authentic Parents, Anxious Children, Boundaries around Handwashing – A RIE Chat Summary

April 1, 2020
Challenging Behaviors, Play

(Beginning in mid-March 2020, when the world shut down, I began a bi-weekly conversation with the parents who had been […]

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