Author: CatchpennyCreative
-
4-7-8 Breathing
4-7-8 Breathing Sometimes when you’re feeling stress creeping into your body, it can be difficult to step back to fully engage in a mindfulness activity, especially if it’s not yet part of your everyday habit. A quick way to bring on the relaxation response is to use the 4-7-8 breath: Breathe in slowly through your…
-
Quick Tips for Teachers: What to Do When Your Bright & Quirky Students Have Challenging Behaviors
At the 2021 Bright & Quirky Child Summit, Dr. Mona Delahooke sat down with Dr. Stephen Porges to discuss strategies for teachers when a child brings challenging behaviors to the classroom.
-
What to Do with Your Child’s Meltdowns, Refusal or Other Challenging Behaviors
Dr. Mona Delahooke sat down with Dr. Stephen Porges to discuss strategies for parents dealing with challenging behavior from their children.
-
Chronically Threatened: A Polyvagal Approach to ADHD
In this episode of ADHD is over, the host discusses how Polyvagal Theory relates to ADHD with Dr. Porges. This unpacks the Polyvagal approach to ADHD and demonstrates how there is nothing ‘wrong’ with children who have been diagnosed with these so-called mental disorders (ADHD, ODD, Anxiety, Depression etc.). What if all these children were…
-
The lost science & art of breathing
The lost science and art of breathing rediscovered: We do it 25,000 times a day … and barely even think about it. But there’s a lost science and art to breathing, and rediscovering it can do wonders for your physical health, and overall well-being. That’s what journalist James Nestor discovered in his deep dive into the science…
-
Co-Regulation Isn’t Just a Human Thing
This little boy wrote a love-letter to his dog. This is another great example of co-regulation with your fury companion.
-
Emotions Recognized in Vocalization
Besides speech, people express emotion using rich nonverbal vocalizations—also known as vocal bursts. These include laughs, screams, sighs, and a lot more. We discovered that vocal bursts convey 24 different kinds of emotion. (Cowen et al., 2018, Am Psych)
-
Stephen Porges on Mindfulness & co-regulation
“The whole history of the study of mental and psychological processes has been so focused on the individual’s responses, yet the individual’s responses are being framed and interacting through a connectedness with others.” The Polyvagal theory developed by Stephen Porges “forces an attention away from the individual to the individual within context.” In this context,…
-
What is “Hygge” and why do we see this word everywhere?
Hygge is a special Danish word that is hard to explain and even harder to pronounce. The word Hygge (pronounced ‘hoo –guh’) roughly translates to ‘coziness’. It may be hard to say, but that hasn’t stopped the Danish people to seek out hygge and to understand the longing for connection, contentment, and a feeling of…