Boat and tidal wave feelings
As a parenting therapist, I work with many parents whose kids are experiencing anxiety, stress, or depression. It can be so hard to know what the right thing is to do as a parent of a struggling kid. What can a parent do to help their kids work through big feelings?
No matter how old your kid is, this visualization can help. If they're in an ocean of feelings...you be the boat. The video talks about more.
If this helps you, you might be interested in the recording of Feeling Feelings webinar. It's a 50 minute workshop that gives you super practical ways to help parents help their kids through their big emotions. There is one webinar for parents of older kids and teens. The other is for parents of younger children. They cover developmentally appropriate ways for parents to support their kids through whatever they are feeling.
Roya Dedeaux is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a focus on using creative tools like art, writing, and recreation as a way to help teens and their families who don't quite fit the mold.
Roya’s first book, Connect with Courage: practical ways to release fear and find joy in the places your kids take you is the result of her background in Recreation and Leisure Studies and Marriage and Family Therapy and is the base of her Connect with Courage Parenting Course.
She loves running her private practice, creating art prompts for her
two online art groups, and running games and challenges in the
free Recreate Parenting Facebook community! When she's not doing that, she loves to make messes with her three wild & wonderful kids where they live and play hard in Southern California.
Connect With Courage
