by Suzanne | Aug 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
Supporting our Children with Climate Change Worries With the extreme weather that has been happening around the world including what is already the worst wildfire season ever in BC, and subsequent attention on climate change, you might find that your pre-teen or teen...
by Suzanne | Sep 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
September 30 is Orange Shirt Day and National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. This is a day to honour residential school Survivors and their families, as well as those children who did not make it home. We can honour those children, adults and families by learning...
by Suzanne | Jun 21, 2021 | Children, Mental Health, Resilience, Well-being, Workshops
Checking In on the Mental Health of BC Youth May 7, 2021 was National Child and Youth Mental Health Day. In honor of the day, I co-presented a webinar with McCreary Centre Society called Checking In on the Mental Health of BC Youth. McCreary presented the data from...
by Suzanne | Feb 15, 2021 | Children, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Well-being
This list of apps (and one website) covers the three areas that people most often are looking for support in: anxiety, mindfulness, and emotional intelligence. These are the apps that I recommend; a couple of them I use myself. My suggestion to you would be to play...
by Suzanne | Oct 5, 2020 | Connection, Developing empathy, Kindness, Well-being
Compassion and Forgiveness I’ve been thinking a lot about compassion throughout this pandemic. How we all are quicker to become dysregulated and how it is also taking longer to return to a state of regulation. How this means that we need to have compassion for others...
by Suzanne | May 20, 2020 | Connection, Emotional Literacy, Emotional Vocabulary, Listening, Mental Health, Resilience, Well-being
During this transition to Phase 2 as schools being to reopen their buildings, it can be challenging to support our children when we have so many questions and feelings ourselves. Some of you may choose not to send your child(ren). If your child(ren) will be returning,...
by Suzanne | May 4, 2020 | Emotional Literacy, Mental Health, Resilience, Well-being
May 4 – 10, 2020 is Mental Health Week. During this time of shelter-in-place, looking after our mental health is more needed and more challenging than ever. I created this infographic as a simple visual reminder of four ways we can support our well-being. If you...
by Suzanne | Apr 15, 2020 | Community, Connection, Mental Health, Resilience, Well-being, Workshops
How are you doing? How are you and your family in this time of COVID 19? How I am doing is a pretty mixed bag to be honest. Short answer is, I’m okay. The longer answer is more complex – I’m feeling grateful, worried, nervous, unfocused, unsettled, content, peaceful…...
by Suzanne | Mar 19, 2020 | Children, Children's games, Connection, Mental Health, Resilience, Well-being
I hope you and your family are well and managing with this new world as it emerges. The unknown and unpredictable nature of our current world is creating lots of anxiousness. You may be trying to comfort your children, find activities to keep them occupied and make...
by Suzanne | May 26, 2019 | Connection, Intrinsic Motivation, Mastery, Resilience
Offering rewards – as in “get good marks in school and I will buy you a new toy/game” – is an oft used parenting strategy. The question is, does it actually work? Research shows that for mundane, repetitive tasks, rewards do work. For more complex tasks where nuanced...
