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Why talking about the uncomfortable stuff creates growth & improves mental health

Child Therapy, Childhood Trauma / CoReAdmin

Written by Amy Baillie In the past, after a challenging event, I have heard people give advice, “don’t focus on it, “Stop talking about it,” or try thinking about other things. With children, you also see well-meaning adults in their lives try and use distraction rather than allowing focus to go back to uncomfortable feelings, […]

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Grief and Loss – CoRe Kids Therapy

Childhood Trauma, Grief & Loss, Trauma Counselling / CoReAdmin

Prepared by: Daniela Diaz What is Grief? An inevitable process (never-ending) that happens due to a permanent or temporary disruption in routine, separation, or a change in a relationship which can sometimes be out of the person’s control. (Fiorini & Mullen, 2006) It’s normal that grief causes pain and discomfort and therefore impacts thoughts, feelings,

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The Imitation Game & The Narrator

Anxiety, Child Development, Non-Verbal Children, Power of Play / CoReAdmin

Blog Series By Ashley Stevenson – The Power of Play with Non-Verbal Children The Imitation Game Imitation is an amazing tool for enhancing the development of communication skills. Imitation helps children to practice the rhythms of communication. It can also help them to build the foundations for broader social skills, like recognising facial expressions and

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Anxiety and Neurodiversity

Anxiety, Anxiety and Neurodiversity, Articles for Parents, Child Development / CoReAdmin

Anxiety is a normal response to situations where we perceive a risk, and our brain acts in respond to those risks “to keep us safe” even though there may not be an actual risk present. Anxiety is something that we all experience, and through anxiety, our bodies learn how to respond to challenging situations in

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The Mighty Brain

Articles for Parents, Child Therapy / CoReAdmin

Ever wondered about our brains? How do they grow and develop from the tiny brain of the newborn which appears to need to do so little, to the more mature version of the adult that needs to do so much? Why do I say appear to do so little? Let me use some familiar analogies

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Interoception

Articles for Parents, Child Therapy, We Help With / CoReAdmin

I’m sure you heard at school that our body has five senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing and vision? Well, it is now known that our body has at least eight!! One that is closely tied with our emotions and how we are feeling is our Interoception. Our Interoception is the information we get from inside

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Just Breathe – Coping with our Emotions

Articles for Parents, Child Therapy, We Help With / CoReAdmin

Just Breathe… Have you ever wondered why people say that? Why is breathing going to help when you feel scared, sad, angry or any other type of big emotion? When we feel a big emotion, our body changes our breath. We might find it hard to breathe, our breath might become rapid and short, or

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