Nicole Sun
Yonge street M2N6C6 Toronto, ON, Canada

Mental Health Awareness Month #breakthestigma #supportisgood #nomoreshaming

It is Mental Health Awareness month. Be kind to others and yourself for you don't know what people are going through behind closed doors.

How often I come across this exact challenge in my practice where people spend so much of their time and energy trying not to feel what they feel. The myth is that the more you push negative feelings away the more "mature" you are as you don't let things affect you. Whilst there is a place for choosing your battles, often half the battle is won when you just allow yourself to feel what you feel. At the same time, parents seem to believe that its detrimental for their kids to ...feel and express sadness, upset, frustration which usually results in multiple attempts to distract them, a lecture about why they don't need to feel that way or rebounding frustration that their kids are upset. Life would be so much easier if we could just trust ourselves and/or our children to feel what we/they feel and find healthy ways to work through and understand them http://www.janetlansbury.com/2013//dont-fight-the-feelings/ See more

Some awesome authors/speakers that share their insights and wisdom into parenting

So great to see that some schools are teaching young children about mindfulness and emotion regulation skills.

True freedom to parent from YOUR best starts with self control - choosing to respond instead of react when our children trigger us. When we are not aware of our own triggers or struggles, it limits our parenting skills and can cause more damage than we intend. Mindful parenting is a combination of DBT and attachment parenting

What is DBT and why would you benefit from it?