My Name is Trauma

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Creative interventions such as art 🎨, music 🎶, and movement 👯‍♂️ are at the heart 🧡of our work with traumatized children. These activities help us connect to the body in a positive way, create space for healing and growth, and help teach 🐯to be calm and relaxed 🌸.

Talking about trauma with young people can be hard. My Name is Trauma can make this conversation easier. Trauma is presented in a way that is playful and imaginative to help children learn and understand.

We have now included an Educational Resource and Strategies section at the back of the book to support the learning and understanding of trauma.

Available for purchase at mynameistrauma.com

“Trauma makes it impossible to be in the present moment. We keep reacting to the past. Anything that resembles the past will result in reacting to what originally happened”

Identifying triggers, creating awareness around how we are impacted by these triggers and healing through the body can help and regulate our nervous system.

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The Most Valuable Thing a Parent Can Do for Their Kids Glennon Doyle Melton on the importance of teaching our kids how to handle pain and process grief.

Resiliency doesn’t come from shielding children from challenges or their pain. It comes from children falling down, again and again, and realizing they can pick themselves back up.

Resiliency comes from them sitting with their pain knowing that they can handle it, move past it, and grow from it.

Play and movement are vital for learning. When we move, the brain literally lights up. Let’s honour natural ways of learning.

Credit: Herding Kids in Kindergarten