Are you unsure of how to help your child cope with BIG emotions?  At times do you feeling like you're failing at parenting?  In this week's episode, Kim Feeney, a licensed independent social worker and a registered play therapist supervisor stops by to give us sage advice on how to help our kids emotionally regulate by becoming their emotion coach.

Kim Feeney is the host of Butterfly Beginnings Counseling YouTube channel where she educates parents and other play therapists on how to understand the motivation behind a child's behavior.

Today on the show, Kim and I chat about:

• what emotional regulation is and what the benefits are to helping children to emotionally regulate,
• why play therapy is a great way to engage kids to behave and model a healthy expression of feelings,
• the varying states of arousal- how to identify them and how to help our kids move through varying levels of arousal to achieve a calm and collected state and 
• Kim gives us a framework on how to emotionally coach our children from tantrum to calm.

>>> You can connect  with Kim and learn more about  Butterfly Beginnings Counseling  on her YouTube channel here. Or you can go to https://www.youtube.com/c/ButterflyBeginningsCounseling/featured

>>> Grab Kim’s super helpful guide 6 Strategies to Help Kids Cope with Big Emotions here. Or at www.butterflybeginningscounseling.com/coping

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Last week on Epsiode 56, I started to explore how to grow in resilience and today I’m continuing last week’s conversation with 8 juicy examples of how you can grow your own emotional fortitude reserves.  

What I love about these suggestions the most? Aside from helping you to grow in resilience,  they are essentially practices that are well worth your time, any way. It’s amazing to me how having high serving practices in place enrich your life and mutually support each other. 

>>> If you haven’t listened to last week’s episode, yet I encourage you stop what you’re doing and listen to it first and then circle around back to this one. It will just make more sense to you that way.

Here are the 8  ways to grow in resilience discussed in today's episode:

1. Adopt a religious or spiritual practice.
2. Be that social butterfly more often.
3. Become a lifelong learner. 
4. Tap into your physical fitness. 
5. Be present, not distracted. 
6. Practice Gratitude.
7. Don’t be a cavewoman when it comes to your cognitive and emotional flexibility.
8. Find your true purpose and calling in life. 

The Weekly Journal Prompt of the Week is BACK! Make sure to take some time to reflect and journal on this:

WHAT IS SOMETHING YOU LIKE THAT MOST PEOPLE DON'T?

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I originally wanted to talk about Growing in  resilience a year ago when we were already a few months into the world falling flat on its face. Fast forward one and half years later and we’re still on shaky ground. I want to hold space for those of you who are feeling the weight of the world on your shoulders. 

>>WHY GROWING IN RESILIENCE IS IMPORTANT

It's been a tough time with a lot of heartbreaks, and a lot of global suffering.  It takes courage and grit to wake up and still keep moving one foot in front of the other towards your dreams. Having emotional fortitude and growing in resilience can help.

Today’s episode is all about resilience and offering practical tips and perspectives on how you can build upon your own reservoir. In fact, there are many things you can do to actively grow in resilience that there’ll be two episodes to cover it.

GROWING IN RESILIENCE PART 1
Specifically, this episode will cover 3 ways you can grow in resilience. Those ways are rooted in:

•  realistic optimism, 
• facing your fears and 
• following a moral compass. 

>>> My aim is to help you to release some of the overwhelm that you may be experiencing by giving you tools for your wellness toolbox.

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