Everything feels blurred and unfocused. Your shoulders drag to the floor, burdened by thoughts. Even those tiny freckles feel heavy. Gone is the clarity you had last week. It has now been replaced by chaos. Beneath a seemingly calm facade, you are a tornado of emotions swerving out of control. Your glazed-over-eyes show nothing of… {read more}
How to Be In Charge of Your Emotional Remote Control {Free Printable}
“Who controls your emotions?” I ask my youngest daughter. She gives me the look of a perplexed almost-six year old and scans the room with her pensive blue eyes. It makes me wonder if she is thinking of her friends, of a name out there that might carry the answer. Someone must surely control those… {read more}
I Saw That! {Printable Encouragement Cards}
Summary: Free printable encouragement cards for kids and why you should use them. As a child, I felt that celebrations were for those gargantuan events that happened maybe once or twice per lifetime. I saw people rejoicing around me and yet a little voice in my head kept me from feeling joy, kindness, happiness or… {read more}
Encourage Loving Relationships {Printable Love Pouch}
Occasionally, we are not ourselves. We say things we don’t mean. Our words come out like little daggers instead of the concerned consonants-and-vowels-stitched phrases we had hoped for. We shout when we mean to put ourselves in a time out. We scrape tender little feelings and we make them doubt that we love them. We… {read more}
Printable Tool to Work on Focus
My mind wanders and for a second I forgot what led me here… I have one hand on the open fridge door, another one holding a stapler, and in the space between my twisted shoulder and my neck a phone balances awkwardly. I knew where I was going before all these distinct ideas merged into… {read more}
Resources that Teach Kids to Build Healthy Friendships {Free Printables}
Summary: Tools to teach kids to build healthy friendships, maintain boundaries and recognise positive character traits in those around them. I remember the first time I thought I would have a friend forever. It seemed so beautifully pure to imagine that two people could spend their whole lives connected by an invisible thread, just on… {read more}
Giving Children the Gift of Balance {Free Printable}
Imagine if we learned how to listen to our bodies as children. If we could respect their natural yearning for balance. Like all skills, we can learn to be more aware and take appropriate actions. This is a great tool to help children who jump from one extreme to the next. It can also be… {read more}
Positive Decision Making: A Guide for Kids {Free Printable}
Sometimes decisions make us sweat… How do you know if you’ve made the right choice? Where do you stand when your heart and your head start to tango, leaving you awkwardly in the middle? Do you know how to rocket your decision-making skills into committed and inspired choices? A Decision Rocket is a visual aid to help… {read more}