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Breathing to Stay Calm and Alert
Our two-year-old granddaughter Molly is tired. It is 3:30 pm, and she will have to wait until bedtime to go to sleep. We’re in my car, and my cousin calls to chat. My cousin is one of my favorite people, but she is a talker. We talk for a half hour, and the little one falls…
Organization
Jenny’s backpack is stuffed with: three textbooks, several empty bags of snacks, a school supply bag (with pens, markers, and her eraser collection), several fidgets, a rotten apple, two notebooks, and piles of old papers bunched up like trash. She can’t find her agenda planner. Organization is the ability to create and maintain systems to…
Planning and Prioritizing
Jenny’s history project is due tomorrow. She has ten hours to do it. She stays up all night and has it ready to hand in on time. She realizes that if she had given herself time, she would have revised it. Now it’s too late. Jenny doesn’t have the skills to break down the steps…
Task Initiation and Procrastination at Home
https://www.easel.ly/infographic/e9iz2w By mrsdvorakravitz | View this Toon at ToonDoo | Create your own Toon It’s Sunday. Deb is upstairs in her room. She has a little math and history homework, and then she plans to run outside and play with her friends. Before she starts, she goes downstairs to eat breakfast. After breakfast, her sister…
Self-Help Exercises For Self Regulation
As a homemaker and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who juggles family responsibilities and a profession, it’s not uncommon for me to feel overwhelmed. Since self-care starts at home, I decided to study Polyvagal Theory to update my understanding of the physiology of self-regulation. Terms to know Polyvagal Theory – Polyvagal Theory according to Steven…
What is Emotional Control?
Some individuals maintain equilibrium under very trying conditions. These people are able to stay in control of their emotions and make rational and wise choices. When we lose emotional control, we respond with the fight or flight response. Our brains respond to stress as a perceived danger, with the fight, flight, or freeze effect. When…
