TGIF: How to Handle Back-to-School Anxiety

In this week’s TGIF, Kerry shares TOOLS, GRATITUDE, INNOVATION and FEELS as she answers a reader’s question about supporting their child with back-to-school anxiety.

TGIF, Parenting, Anxiety, Adolescents, Coping SkillsKerry BiskelonisSeptember 8, 2023anxiety, back to school, resilience, advice, motivated, focus, big feelings, temper tantrum, struggling, tools, parent, parenting, connection, movement, breathing

Creating Space to Feel Fully

In this week’s TGIF newsletter, Kerry shares Tools, Gratitude, Innovation and Feels around “shoulding” ourselves, the complexity of feeling multiple emotions at once, how this applies to parenthood and offers some much-needed permission for it all.

TGIF, ParentsKerry BiskelonisNovember 12, 2021shame, breathing, grateful, gratitude, emotions, parenting, parenthood

Coping with the Great “Post-Pandemic” Transition

In this week’s TGIF, Kerry shares TOOLS, GRATITUDE, INNOVATION and FEELS around back-to-school/work, life transitions, when things don’t go as expected and being a beginner at new things as an adult.

How to Understand Your Child: 4 Steps

Remaining OPEN gives you a chance to better understand your child and their actions. This four step process is a tool to have in your back pocket to help you slow down, pause, and become curious about what is going on for your child.

Adolescents, ParentsAnna VantseMay 27, 2021Reset Brain + Body, LLC.parenting, mindfulness, understanding, children, kids, family, family counseling, breathing, teen counseling, tween counseling, active listening

How to Meditate: Easy Breathing Exercises and Techniques

We can experience a meditative state by bringing our awareness to our breath. By just placing our attention on our breath, we can practice mindful breathing.

Meditation, Mindfulness, Yoga and Somatic TherapyAnna VantseApril 13, 2020Reset Brain and Bodymeditation, breathing exercise, breathing, breathing techniques, mindful meditation, 4 4 6 breathing, lions breath, box breathing, patterned breathing, types of meditation

Mental Health Disorders and Yoga

This research is showing that the psychological benefits of yoga come from breath, mindfulness/meditation, relationships with self and connection with the body (Roth, 2014). Understanding this, along with who can benefit from this type of practice is important. As counselors, we need to make sure we are not only delivering the yoga in a therapeutic form but delivering it to those who will benefit from the practice.

Yoga and Somatic Therapy, Mindfulness, Mind-Body Connection, Meditation, Counseling 101Holly Vogtman August 23, 2019Reset Brain and Bodyyoga, yoga therapy, mental health, mental disorders, laughing, breathing, mindfulness, meditation

How to Raise an Emotionally Healthy Child

Just like adults, kids are drawn to mindfulness. Once they experience it, they know it feels good in their brains and bodies without reading the scientific evidence behind these practices. But when do they have the chance to experience it? To learn it? To practice it? Who will show them?