Free Printable Emotion Wheel For Kids | PDF Feelings Wheel Download
Last month, my patrons helped me collaborate on creating this new resource: a pizza-themed feelings wheel for kids. Via the Patreon community, Patrons got …
Parenting
For many parents, growing the capacity to respond well to the needs of their child is one of the greatest challenges of life. Emerging research in neurobiology, brain development, and relationships is provides some valuable insight into this challenge. Through research, mental health professionals and early childhood development experts are learning how better to support parents in their work to raise healthy, resilient kids in the face of the unique challenges of parenting in a modern world.
Many of my favorite illustration projects as a mental health artist involve interpreting this research – which can be technical, dry, and hard to read in it’s rw form – into engaging illustrations that can be used for teaching parenting classes, one-on-one with parenting coaches, or used by individual parents for their own development.
Intergenerational Trauma – Illustration and Questionnaire
If you aren’t naming and breaking the cycles that have entangled you, you are participating in them. This is true in most systems we are …
Sketch notes on Parenting, Trauma, and Childhood Adversity
Instead of questioning (“how could you?”) or punishing (“how dare you!”) look for the entry point for empathy (“oh, of course you…”) When someone – …
Feeling Forecast: Emotional Regulation Teaching Worksheets
This three-piece worksheet is an adapted excerpt from my COVID Kid’s Activity Book. This bundle includes two worksheets, with three pages total. The Feeling Forecast …
COVID Kid’s Activity Book | A Workbook to Help Families Cope
Most of us are more than a little concerned about the mental health of the kiddos that we care about during this pandemic. The natural …
Kids and COVID-19: Therapeutic Family Activities to Support Resilience
The first draft of this illustration was created as a professional resource, but as Social Distancing entered the global vocabulary and #quarantinewithkids started trending, I …
Demonstrating Trustworthiness Builds Bridges that Self-Advertisement Cannot
Demonstrating our trustworthiness builds relational bridges that self-advertisement cannot. If you sense that your friend, partner, child, client, etc. feels hesitant to trust you, let …
All Social Media Has a Cost, Empowered Social Media use Sets a Budget
It’s not that social media is good or bad, the real question is: What we are willing to trade for likes, views, and follows? This is …
Parenting Children with Anxiety
When kids are anxious, it’s human nature to want to soothe them. For kids with significant anxiety, however, we may need to monitor ourselves …
Questions Aren’t Connections: Cultivating Conversations beyond Q & A
Shifting from Questions to Conversations It’s normal for parents to worry about kids as they navigate shared spaces, learning, and the social aspects of growing …
Not Knowing Everything Your Kid does Online is a Good Thing
There is an enormous amount of pressure on parents to keep tabs on everything their teen does- especially online. But a little bit of privacy …
7 Positive Childhood Experiences (PCE’s) that Shape Adult Health and Resiliency – Illustrated
By now, most counselors, pediatricians, teachers, and other people who work with children know about ACES: The “Adverse Childhood Experiences” scale. ACE’s predict, based on …
How Childhood Emotional Neglect Feeds Adult Chronic Shame
Kids who grow up in families where emotional needs are not validated and met often develop a deep sense of internal shame for having needs …
Family Therapy / Parenting Sketch notes
There’s a ton of pressure on parents and caregivers to meet every need. Sometimes shame around not being able to do so prevents families from …
Normal Trauma Response vs PTSD: Interpreting the Research
When brains experience trauma, they struggle to cope with it. It’s normal – and part of the healing process – to have flashbacks, nightmares, or …
Listen to Your Gut
Humans have an innate ability to read people, situations, and our environment. If we pay attention, it helps keep us safe and helps us know …
Getting to the Root of Attention Seeking Behavior in Kids and Teens
“Doing something for attention” gets a bad rap. Doing something for attention has a negative value, but what if we consider another viewpoint? As a …
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