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A great video for parents in understanding the importance of being with emotions

New Episode! Connected Parenting Podcast with Jennifer Kolari! Episode 24: What a Shame about Shame... Healthy shame vs. toxic shame and how to know the difference. In this episode, Jennifer will help you understand the difference between these two types of shame and she will show you how to help your children understand it too. http://bit.ly/CP-Podcast-Ep24-WhataShameaboutShame #podcast #parentingpodcast #connectedparenting #CALMtechnique #shame #toxicshame #healthyshame #howtotalktoyourkids See more

Conscious parenting is NOT permissive parenting. Children NEED parents to provide containment. They also NEED parents to help them regulate emotions. Conscious parenting asks MORE from us adults.

New episode! The Importance of Healthy Adversity In this episode, Jennifer talks about how important it is to let kids experience healthy adversity.... Challenges, mistakes, and failures are critical to learning, good mental health, and emotional resilience. Learn how to help your children benefit from life’s contrasts and bumps and how to stay calm while you do. http://bit.ly/CP-Podcast-Episode33-HealthyAdversity #connectedparentingpodcast #connectedparenting #podcast #healthyadveristy #parenting See more

Join Dr. Daniel Siegel, Dr. Tina Payne Bryson, Jennifer Kolari, MSW., and Kim Payne, M.Ed as they headline the only children’s mental health conference of it’s kind. Access to 3 keynote speakers and 23 live workshops --- 100+ hours of instruction for one amazing price! We’re here to empower parents, caregivers, mental health professionals, and educators in creating a more hopeful, dynamic future for our youth. Don’t miss this opportunity to make the difference in the life of a child.

Anxiety can make you ask What-if questions about an uncertain future... What if school closes again? What if I'm always going to feel this way? What if so...mething bad happens to someone I love? "What-iffing" is a hallmark of anxiety. Instead of trying to run away or quash the questions that pop up in your mind, you can begin to make contingency plans. Check out a technique taught in the new book SUPERPOWERED, a blueprint for resilience for kids. Grab your copy: https://getsuperpowered.com

Connected Parenting Podcast! NEW EPISODE! Anxiety...we are all feeling it. It's affecting the way we think, the way we function and the way we parent. ... In this episode, Jennifer shares essential strategies to not only help you calm your fears and feel better, but how to model this for your children. This episode will help you learn how to control anxiety--so it doesn’t control you! http://bit.ly/ConnectedParenting-Podcasts-Ep31-Anxiety Also available on YouTube and most podcast platforms. #connectedparenting #podcast #anxiety #CALMtechnique #anxietytips See more

If you faced trauma as a child this video is for you.

There are many choices available to us women in this life but when it comes to your body, there are only two: Accept it Or don’t. You see, if you choose to ac...cept your body, you will soon start to love it, admire it, look after it. These things all follow in the wake of your acceptance. When you realise that this vessel for your soul, for your spirit, is an instrument of such high design and fine tuning that it boggles the mind to even think about, you will enter into a phase which I like to call ‘peace, at last’. You will care nothing of spare fat, grey hairs, loose skin. You will realise, eventually, that the body’s purpose is not to look good, to attract friends, partners, successes that it is, in fact, your spirit which does all of those things. If you would only allow it to shine through and work its magic. Your body, my friends, has but one job, to see you safely through this adventure of life, to allow your spirit to reach its potential. That is it. If you are on the path of not accepting your body you are in for a very long battle against an enemy you have no power to defeat. Nature, time, biology, fate You don’t have the weapons to fight those powers. Wave the white flag. Give in. Accept. It is then that your life will truly begin. #loveyourbody Award winning image, Feather & The Goddess Pool’ by the wonderful Natalie Grono Words: Donna Ashworth My book is available on amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08BDWY9CP/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_ US: https://www.amazon.com//ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_MykfFbHGYY6

What if mental disorders like anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder aren’t mental disorders at all? In a compelling new paper, biological anthropologists call on the scientific community to rethink mental illness. With a thorough review of the evidence, they show good reasons to think of depression or PTSD as responses to adversity rather than chemical imbalances. And ADHD could be a way of functioning that evolved in an ancestral environment, but doesn’t match the way we live today.

School this year won't look like it ever has before. We are redesigning instruction, prioritizing standards and curriculum, and reassessing what our students ne...ed most at this time. As we reimagine education, teaching, and learning, let's also take a minute to redefine "whole body listening" and its implementation, too. . . . This outdated practice is problematic in so many ways. . . . It demands that our students prove they are engaged by moving, sitting, listening, acting in identical ways. But diverse brains have diverse needs. . . . It reinforces ableist community standards: "neurotypicals learn, focus, and engage in this way--and so should you." . . . It is often developmentally inappropriate for numerous students in any given class, and therefore is inappropriate as a whole-class expectation. . . . And it is mentally, physically, and psychologically harmful. We need to be teaching our students to listen and respond to what their body needs, not forcing it to sit, move, and focus in a way someone else deems appropriate. Teaching students to ignore what their body needs to learn and focus can and does lead to mental health issues, self-harming behaviors, toxic stress, and internalized ableism. It can also make students more susceptible to manipulation and abuse, as they have been trained to ignore what feels right to their body and instead conform to what adults tell them is best. . . . Is this really what we want our students to be learning? . . . As you design class rules and expectations for your room this year--whatever that "room" looks like--I hope you are prioritizing student engagement and learning, rather than enforcing outdated policies of policing students' bodies. My whole body is listening when I'm twirling a fidget, sitting on my feet, possibly "staring off into space." What does your "whole body listening" look like? What does your students'? . . . Picture ID: Text over a watercolor rainbow background reads: Whole body listening is ableist, developmentally inappropriate, and harmful. Speech bubble surround the main text and read: "Eyes on your teacher!" "Feet on the floor." "Quiet hands!" "No mouth noises." "Sitting criss-cross applesauce!" The Neurodivergent Teacher's logo is at the bottom. #BackToSchool #WholeBodyListening #SchoolRules #ClassroomRules #VirtualTeaching #VirtualClassroom #RemoteLearning #QuarenTeaching

New Podcast Alert! Connected Parenting Podcasts, episode 29! The Father Effect ... In this episode Jennifer explores the unique dynamics of fatherhood, and how to understand and work with the dynamics of both hard and soft parenting! Where to watch: https://bit.ly/3eEZ13C Where to listen: iTunes Google and Connectedparenting.con #connectedparenting #CALMtechnique #fathers #podcasts #parenting See more

VIRAL WISDOM #53: I encourage all people offended by #BLM to watch this.