Features:
1. Supporting emotional needs of the gifted with 4 informative articles 2. Tools of the Trade: Green Child Magazine’s gentle approach to sibling rivalry 3. Staying healthy with BLJ boundaries
May as Mental Health Awareness Month may be over, but of course the need for mental health hygiene exists year-round. To take you mindfully into summer, I’m sharing a first-week-of-June resource roundup on all things mentally healthy——starting with SENG’s special 4 articles on the mental health needs of the gifted …
SENG (Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted) provides important resources for the high-IQ population, for both children and adults. That’s critical, considering the loneliness that’s been associated with this demographic, & the natural link between loneliness & depression, anxiety, even suicide. As part of their May Mental Health Awareness wrap-up, SENG has shared 4 informative articles on the topics of:
As the mother of two kiddos, I can’t get enough of any & all the articles on sibling rivalry. Green Child Magazine has this to say about the subject:
“Teach your children healthy communication skills, such as active listening, expressing emotions clearly, and resolving disputes peacefully. Help them understand that conflicts and disagreements are a normal part of life …”
(There’s also a really great script for helping sibs to use a “peace stone,” or “talking stick,” included in the article. The example comes straight from a classroom!)
What do boundaries have to do with mental health? In a word, EVERYTHING.
I’m currently reading “The Holistic Psychiatrist” Dr. Nicole LePera’s How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past + Create Your Self. I think I’ll be quoting her insights on boundaries for the rest of time. SO. GOOD.
When boundaries get crossed at a young age, people are set up for emotional hardship. And that means mental health struggles.
The antidote is being taught exactly what boundaries are, why we need them & (of course) the best ways to balance them for ourselves as individuals. This can happen at any point in life——including childhood. Big Life Journal has a great resource (👆👆this FREE printable above) for teaching the body feelings that wisely let us know when our physical boundaries are being crossed.
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