01/19/2022
If you’re going through any type of trauma and want to do your best to help your child through difficult times:
👉🏻 Remember that in many cases, lasting trauma doesn’t come from the events that happened to a person - but the fact that they were not properly supported in processing and making sense of what happened to them.
So helping your kids PROCESS big changes, difficult news or any type of hardship is key for it to not have a lasting damaging effect on their lives.
Here are some ways to help support your children through difficult times:
✨ Keep your kids involved and be honest/real about whatever is happening (age appropriately)
✨Acknowledge and validate their feelings / fears / sadness / dissapointment.
✨Make space for BIG feelings and meltdowns during big changes or unexpected news in your life. Remember that feeling is healing.
✨Read appropriate books or use story telling to help make sense of difficult circumstances/big changes in your child’s life.
✨Keep yourself as emotionally balanced and healthy as you possibly can. Self care is not a luxury, it’s a necessity.
✨Focus on the RELATIONSHIP you have with your kids and partner because when it comes down to it - no matter your external circumstances - connection is that will keep your family unit tight and healthy through hardship.
✨ In case of anything serious, seek professional help (preferably a trauma informed therapist).
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🌻Peaceful Parenting Resources: http://t.co/T8goym3P6Z 🌻
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