Features:
1. Reframing child labels 2. Tools of the Trade: Dance & movement to relieve trauma 3. Recreational routines (via Dr. Cara Goodwin)
Shaking it off, playing & reframing: These are our issue’s featured tools today. As you read through the concepts & follow the links that speak to your soul, consider some wider applications in your own life.
Can you move gently, even in public, when you’re feeling wounded or triggered? Can you model reframing out loud for your little ones or students? When & where can you add more play into your personal or even work routines … ?
I know I featured Big Life Journal last issue, but when a tool is good, it’s good. And BLJ tools are good enough to mention twice in a row.
At the end of every week, they share Free Friday Printables (FFP on their ‘Gram)——& this week’s has so much to offer. From visual learning to creativity to positive thinking, this simple-but-sturdy tool, the Self Portrait Flip Art, costs you nothing but time. And what an investment!
Stubborn. Lazy. Messy. Shy. Oppositional-Defiant. Attention-Deficient.
We can label our kids to their detriment … even when those labels are meant to motivate.
Reframing creates rewiring——of the brain & of our social & self-worth. Movement is one of the strongest ways to rewire our brains as we shift our bodies AND our thoughts into positivity & happiness.
Rewire Therapy has curated a 10-minute-a-day dance & movement-based therapeutic program that’s currently (through Jan. 18) discounted at 50% off. For therapists, trainers, healers & more, this program trains & heals all in one.
Did you realize that yet another reframe/rewire tool is ROUTINE?
Dr. Cara Goodwin, the Parenting Translator, has an excellent article on how the structure of routines create safety. And the best part is that you can actually structure play into your day for even more safety & connection.
Read on for the full piece … . (Paid subscribers to We Build Better Humans received this cross-post in their in-box directly.) There’s also an audio version!
Psst! You can hear some personal experiences of dance movement therapy & the phenomenon known as Chakra Shaking by healer-artist-teacher Maggie Moore in our podcast conversation from October ‘22.