On NOW 🎁: Emo holidays
We Build Better Humans #68
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Permission to feel …
Holiday (link) party
My Moody Daybook
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It's the most... time of the year. Just the MOST.
Maybe the most capitalism, the most feels, the most lights, the most nostalgia, the most obligation, the most longing, the most love. Everything is heightened. Anxiety, gratitude, busyness, coziness, spending, hibernation, laughter, tears.
Click on the image above to learn even more about Big Life Journal’s Dream Affirmation Cards & how they can help kids, grownups, families & classrooms create a 5-min daily practice to build confidence & emotional well-being.
Are you feeling the holiday feels?
It’s okay to have our feelings. If Dr. Marc Brackett, emotions researcher & author of the book Permission to Feel, has taught us anything, it’s that having feelings is a normal part of the human experience. Holiday stress is real. … But it doesn’t have to be the top item on our seasonal bucket list.
Just watch this short IG video from Brackett on Audible:
Links to resource gifts! 🔗 ⬇️ ⬇️
Don’t go on rote this holiday season. Instead, get resourceful! Follow these links to find new tools to be well this winter:
Lovevery’s Play Kits for babies & toddlers turn little learners into inquisitive makers, early!
Gift cards from Harbor & Sprout let your home-learners find new materials to explore so many subjects——from visual arts & home ec to math, language, botany &, yes, holidays (try Christmas, hygge or “winter holidays,” including Yule, Solstice & more).
Museum Access gives a sneak peek at exhibits around the U.S. + behind-the-scenes glimpses to the television show: Know before you go!
EQ expert Daniel Goleman’s LinkedIN newsletter, aptly titled Emotional Intelligence, features an interview with the author of the recently released book The Science of Change.
Parenting expert Susan Stiffelman (author of Parenting Without Power Struggles & Parenting With Presence) is opening up an “Ask Me Anything” series for direct conversations at only $49.
If one of your questions is “To medicate or not to medicate?” an ADHD child, check out the latest issue of Raising Good Humans by Dr. Aliza Pressman on Substack.
The therapy worksheet bundle (not a substitute for therapist-led therapy) by Printable with Lisa is currently discounted to $20 from the usual $199.
Understand your own moods
In the mailing list email message I received from Printable with Lisa, promoting the excellent Therapy Worksheet Bundle above, there were some staggering stats:
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), depression affects more than 280 million people worldwide every year. The American Psychological Association says that people with depression are 50% more likely to have trouble concentrating; that it contributes to fatigue; &, of course, that it leads in massive numbers to suicide.
Managing our feelings may not be the solution. Accepting our feelings just might ….
I’ve taken the 62 entries from my Tuesday Tools installments & put them into an interactive daily devotional book that you & your loved ones can use everyday to understand & accept your own emotions through every season. You can order your copy (or your gift copy) today: MY MOODY DAYBOOK.
