Children’s Counseling
The Role of Interoception
Chapter 6 of Brain-Body Parenting by Dr. Mona Delahooke, is titled “Making Sense of the Senses: How Emotions Arise from the Body’s Experience of the World.” The chapter looks into the relationship between sensory experiences and emotional regulation in children. Delahooke emphasizes that children’s behaviors are influenced by their sensory processing systems, which shape how…
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Our last blog (Is it willful misbehavior) covered step 1 in determining if a child’s misbehavior is willful or a signal of our child’s vulnerability and need for support. While step 1 was accessing where you are, step 2 is all about accessing where your child is and which platform are they performing in. If…
Read MoreIs it willful misbehavior?
Delahooke in her book Brain Body Parenting gives us an important question that we need to start with when accessing children’s misbehavior: is it willful misbehavior or behavior that signals a child’s vulnerability and need for support? She suggests that distinguishing between stressful behavior and purposeful misbehavior can open a new set of options to…
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