Erin Foster Specialized Educator

Yessss 💯

Parfois le quotidien vaut bien plus que l’exceptionnel.💡🧡

If you’re a parent who is feeling overwhelmed, need to vent and be heard but also need some guidance from a professional- please reach out.

✨ Had a great call with a friend & awesome momma this morning 💙💙💙
✨ Sometimes you just need to talk it out and have some feedback from a professional outside of your usual routine

Have you ever wondered?

This is similar to one of my favourite journaling tools- a simple, yet powerful exercise.

Having this shift in perspective can help you focus on what matters. 💙

Share as a reminder.

Being aware of our emotions is the first step to managing them 🤩

DBTSkills. Emotions/Emotion Regulation.
Emotions are crucial in navigating everyday life. Many of life's problems can be solved or eased by better emotional awareness/regulation.

"I need a drink after that"
"The day I've had.."
"She made me so angry"
"He had such road rage .."
"It's like treading on eggshells coming home from
school/college/work''...

Emotional awareness is key to emotion regulation.

Then not needing to change the way we feel with anger outbursts, unhealthy lifestyle choices :drink, drugs, feeding our feelings, overeating, spending, shopping, gambling, other forms of self harm.

Most of us have a more than reasonable grasp on emotional literacy.

We know that we need the so called ' negative emotions' as much as the feel good 'positive emotions'.

If we've never experienced sadness then we wouldn't know joy.
[ ie :the movie Inside Out and its sequel].
Yet still we go about our day, or many of us do - blaming external issues for rising levels of stress, overwhelm, reactivity.

[Image credit : Brene Brown who adapted the seminal work of Wilcox, Plutchik & Zinker]

So interesting !!
Of course the appendix had to have a role

A Stunning Consequence of Having Your Appendix Removed Higher rates of depression and bipolar disorder, but there may be another way.

✨ Let me know if you want to try a free 15 minute chat to see if we would be a good fit
✨ I am so passionate about emotional and mental health & love to share my training and tips
✨ As an educator, I will always focus on the here and now and what we can do tomorrow

Yessss 🙌🏼

Want to know one of the simplest, most powerful tools in parenting?

👉 Catch your child being good.

Research from Yale psychologist Alan Kazdin shows that noticing and naming positive behavior — even tiny moments — shapes kids’ brains far more effectively than focusing on what they’re doing wrong.

Instead of: “Stop interrupting.”
Try: “I really like how you waited until I finished talking.”

Every time you name what’s going right, you strengthen the connection and increase the chances your child will do it again. 💛

📣 Still some availability in my schedule
✨ Feel free to reach out if you have any questions
📍 Located in Cowansville

✨ Had a great call with a friend & awesome momma this morning 💙💙💙
✨ Sometimes you just need to talk it out and have some feedback from a professional outside of your usual routine