16 when you're nervous lean into excitement
Mum As You Are
English - October 18, 2021 22:19 - 7 minutes - 6.7 MBParenting Kids & Family Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Nervous or excited about going back into the world?
This week’s episode is a five minute chat about the difference between nervous and excited and how we can help kids (and ourselves) lean into working with our psychophysiology.
How validating the physical sensations or nerves and explaining that EVERYONE feels like this can be so powerful for kids.
How over-reassuring that "you're ok" just becomes, at best, white noise and at worst, an unhelpful safety behaviour where kids starts to rely on constant reassurance as a distraction from feeling their feelings