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Psychotherapist: Key Tools to Process Grief for Children & Parents in New Upcoming Book
8 Ways to Help Children Grow A Mindfulness Practice By Andrea Dorn, MSW Mindfulness is an incredibly important life skill making its way into homes, schools, and therapy offices across the world—and for good reason! It is a crucial skill to learn in order to develop inner peace, joy, gratitude, and social-emotional skills, like self-regulation, decision-making, and impulse control. But what is mindfulness? A widely accepted definition of mindfulness is offered by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, which is the “awareness that arises through paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally.” This definition simplifies and makes mindfulness more accessible to adults, but how do you introduce such an important, yet…
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You Can Teach Children Empathy
Some people are born with an innate sense of what others feel. They have a good imagination and consciously direct that imagination to put themselves in another person’s shoes. While some kids may be born with empathy, others may not be. Fortunately, if your kid doesn’t seem to have empathy, or have a full grasp of it, they CAN be taught. Jodi Aman, LCSW, Best-selling author, family therapist, TEDx speaker and Psychotherapist encourages all of us to understand and address the importance of empathy in order to have full happiness in life. She states that “when kids can understand what another person is going through, this helps them read the…
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