Podcast 491: How to help your child navigate intense emotions
CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf
Dr. Caroline Leaf
4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
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SHOW DESCRIPTION: In this podcast I talk to parent Hannah Baldwin about teaching her children mind management techniques. This is part of a series I am doing on questions you submitted for my new book on children’s mental health.
This was Hannah’s question: “My kids are 12, 10, and 8. I personally have been through extensive brain rewiring and parent accordingly to help my kids overcome toxic thought loops. However my 8 year old loops more often than not and is incredibly spiritually sensitive and is very empathic. I really believe her migraines are stress induced as they almost always follow a tough day at school, being bullied, or when she has had a day of high and happy emotions. While I try to implement as many calming and mind-management strategies as possible, I find myself completely exhausted and burned out as a result of trying to do the deeper mental work with her to help her stay mentally healthy and build resilience to and through tough emotional days. How do I help an empathic 8 year old navigate incredibly intense emotions from a vantage point of giving her tools to use that will help her mental health thrive long term?”.
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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:
3:40 We as parents need to help ourselves too!
5:00 How to use mind management to handle the challenges of parenting
8:12 How to help a highly empathetic child manage their mind & emotions
13:00, 26:55 The importance of teaching your child mind management techniques
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Dr Caroline Leif and welcome to my podcast Cleaning Up the Mental Mass. |
| 0:10.2 | Recently I asked you to submit your questions about parenting and children's mental health |
| 0:15.5 | and we had a hard time selecting because we had such great questions. |
| 0:19.6 | In this episode I have Hannah joining me and the question she submitted was |
| 0:24.5 | My kids are 12, 10 and 8 and my youngest 8 year old loops more often than not and is incredibly |
| 0:30.4 | spiritual and sensitive and very empathic. |
| 0:33.0 | I really believe her migraines are stressing juice and they almost always follow a tough |
| 0:36.6 | day at school, being bullied, or when she's had a day of high and happy emotions. |
| 0:41.4 | I try to implement as many calming and mind management strategies as possible but I find |
| 0:45.8 | myself completely exhausted and burnt out as a result of trying to do the deeper mental |
| 0:50.3 | work with her to help her stay mentally healthy and build resilience and help her through |
| 0:55.0 | tough emotional days. |
| 0:56.8 | So how do I help an empathic age-old navigate incredibly intense emotions from a vantage |
| 1:01.6 | point of giving her tools to use that will help her mental health thrive in the long |
| 1:05.5 | term? |
| 1:06.5 | Excellent question and just before we dive in to my discussion with Hannah on how to manage |
| 1:10.9 | this, I want to tell you about my new book coming out on the 8th of August that is available |
| 1:15.6 | on pre-order now. |
| 1:16.6 | The link in details will be in the show notes and it's basically how to help you help |
| 1:21.0 | your child with their mental health. |
| 1:22.8 | It's called how to help your child clean up their mental mess, a guide to building resilience |
| 1:28.0 | and managing mental health. |
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