Why Emotional Regulation Isn’t Realistic for Kids and How Art Therapy Can Help
Emotional regulation is a common expectation for children, but is it realistic? Children’s brains are wired for growth and connection, not mastery of emotions. Instead of pushing for calm and control, we can focus on healthy expression and emotional release. Art therapy provides a safe space for children to express their feelings authentically, supporting brain development, self-worth, and secure connections.
A Parent’s Guide to Healy & MagHealy: Easing Transitions & Emotions
Struggling with hectic mornings, meltdowns, or bedtime battles? This comprehensive guide explores how Healy and MagHealy can support families through daily transitions, emotional regulation, and routine challenges. Learn which programs to use for school drop-offs, sensory overload, sibling harmony, and restful sleep. Discover the best Healy and MagHealy frequency programs for a calmer, more balanced home.
Art Therapy: An Evidence-Based Approach to Supporting Children’s Mental Health and diverse Abilities
Art therapy is a scientifically supported, evidence-based intervention that helps children navigate emotional challenges, anxiety, trauma, and neurodiversity-related needs. This post explores peer-reviewed research and systematic reviews demonstrating art therapy’s effectiveness in improving emotional regulation, reducing anxiety, and fostering self-expression. Studies show that art therapy provides a non-verbal, neuroaffirmative approach to healing, making it particularly effective for children who struggle with verbal communication.
Co-Regulation Through Creativity: How Art Therapy Supports Emotional Regulation in Children
Children don’t learn emotional regulation on their own—they develop it through co-regulation with safe, attuned caregivers. Art therapy offers a powerful way to support this process, providing children with a non-verbal outlet for emotions while reinforcing safety and connection. This post explores how art therapy helps children process big feelings, externalize emotions, and experience co-regulation through creative expression. Learn practical ways to use art at home to support your child’s emotional well-being and build deeper connections through creativity.
A Retirement Plan for Empaths
Empaths, often overwhelmed by the emotions they absorb from others, can find relief in shifting their perspective. In this post, we explore how empaths can stop merging with others’ feelings and instead simply "be with" them, staying grounded in their own essence. Through a gentle invitation, we encourage empaths to choose presence over absorption and redefine what true empathy looks like—caring without depleting oneself. We explore the importance of self-connection and how letting go of burdens that aren’t ours to carry can help us thrive as sensitive beings. Empaths are invited to retire from the exhausting work of absorbing others and, instead, rest in their own fullness. This post offers a loving shift in perspective, helping empaths step into their power while staying true to their sensitivity.
When Words Are Hard to Find: Art as a Voice for Non-Verbal Children
Art therapy provides a powerful way for non-verbal children to communicate, process emotions, and connect with the world around them. Engaging in art activates multiple areas of the brain, including the visual cortex, motor cortex, and limbic system, supporting emotional expression and cognitive development. Through drawing, painting, and sensory-based art, children can share their inner experiences without the need for words. Art therapy helps develop fine motor skills, supports emotional regulation, and strengthens neural pathways related to communication. It creates a bridge between internal experiences and external expression, offering a safe, accessible way for children to be seen, heard, and understood.
NDIS Pricing Review for Art and Music Therapy: What You Need to Know
The NDIS has extended its independent review into pricing for art and music therapy, originally set to conclude in March, to April 17, 2025. This review, led by Dr. Stephen Duckett AM, is assessing appropriate pricing levels for these therapies, not whether they will remain NDIS supports. Proposed changes, originally set for February 2025, include shifting art and music therapy under the community participation budget with specific one-on-one and group rates. However, these changes remain under review. Until the findings are finalized, participants can continue accessing music and art therapy through existing arrangements, and providers may claim at current pricing levels. The NDIS Evidence Advisory Committee (EAC) will also evaluate the evidence base for these therapies. Any changes will take effect only after the review process is completed.
How Art Therapy Helps Children Express Big Feelings
Art therapy provides children with a powerful way to express emotions when words feel out of reach. By combining creative expression with parts work, littles can externalize their feelings, making them easier to understand and process. Whether it’s drawing an “angry part” as a stormy cloud or a “sad part” as a droopy flower, art becomes a safe space for self-discovery and healing. This post explores how art therapy helps children connect with their emotions, embrace all parts of themselves, and find comfort in knowing they’re not alone.
How to Nurture Highly Sensitive Children: Balancing Sensory Overload and Emotional Growth
Highly Sensitive Children (HSCs) are deeply attuned to their surroundings, which can make them more emotionally reactive and sensitive to sensory input. Their heightened awareness, though sometimes misinterpreted, is a result of their unique brain wiring. These children often excel in empathy, noticing subtle emotional cues and feeling deeply for others. However, their sensitivity can lead to sensory overload and emotional exhaustion if not properly supported. A key to helping HSCs thrive is fostering self-awareness, teaching emotional regulation, and creating a balanced environment that allows them to process the world at their own pace. By recognizing their sensitivity as a strength, we can nurture their emotional resilience and empower them to grow into compassionate and connected individuals.
How Highly Sensitive Children Can Teach Us to Pay Attention to What Matters
Highly Sensitive Children (HSCs) are neurologically wired to process sensory and emotional stimuli at a deeper level than their peers. This heightened sensitivity, rooted in neuroscience, allows them to pick up on subtle emotional cues and environmental shifts, often making them the first to sense when something feels “off.” While their sensitivity is an evolutionary advantage, it is frequently misunderstood and can lead to them internalizing negative messages about themselves. The key to supporting these children is by shifting the narrative: instead of discouraging their sensitivity, we should embrace it as a gift. By creating a supportive environment, teaching emotional regulation, and validating their perceptions, we help HSCs thrive. These children are not meant to adapt to a broken system; they are here to change it, encouraging deeper connection, awareness, and empathy in a world that too often overlooks these qualities.
Exploring Healy and MagHealy: How Frequency Therapy May Support Neurodivergent Children
For parents raising neurodivergent children, finding holistic and non-invasive ways to support their emotional, cognitive, and physical well-being is essential. The Healy Frequency Device and MagHealy offer innovative approaches to wellness using microcurrent and pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) therapy.
Why Your Nervous System Needs Safety First (and How SSP Helps)
Our nervous system is wired for safety, but trauma and chronic stress can keep us stuck in survival mode. Polyvagal theory explains how our body shifts between connection, fight-or-flight, and shutdown—and why co-regulation is key to healing. This post breaks down polyvagal theory in an accessible way and explores how the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) supports nervous system healing through specially filtered music. Learn how SSP can help ease anxiety, sensory overwhelm, and emotional dysregulation by restoring the body's ability to feel safe
Helping Kids (and Ourselves) Understand Big Feelings
Learn the gentle art of sensation tracking—an accessible practice to connect with your body’s signals, emotions, and needs. Discover how to help children and yourself identify and respond to physical sensations like tension, warmth, or tightness, fostering interoception and emotional regulation. This approach teaches us to name and address sensations rather than internalize emotions like sadness or anxiety, helping to transform self-perception and promote mindfulness. Perfect for caregivers, parents, or anyone seeking a deeper relationship with their body.
The Science Behind Microcurrent Therapy: Supporting Neurodiverse Children
The benefits of microcurrent therapy for neurodiverse children, including those with ADHD, Autism, and sensory challenges. Backed by studies, this non-invasive therapy promotes focus, emotional regulation, anxiety relief, and sensory processing support. Discover how microcurrent therapy offers a safe, research-supported approach to improving wellbeing for children and families.
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Supporting Highly Sensitive Children: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers
Children who are Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs), may process sensory information and emotions more deeply than their peers. While this heightened sensitivity can come with its challenges, it also offers unique strengths.
Exploring High Sensitivity Within the Spectrum
Neurodiversity extends its embrace beyond clinical confines, including those with high sensitivity: Highly Sensitive Persons (HSP) or empaths.
Embracing the Messiness: Dysregulation as communication not dysfunction
Dysregulation, often seen as a disruption in one's ability to self-regulate, can manifest in various forms. It might appear as intense emotions that feel overwhelming, impulsive actions, or even chaotic thoughts. While traditionally viewed through a lens of dysfunction or pathology, there's a growing recognition that dysregulation can actually serve a purpose, offering valuable insights into our inner workings and external environments.
The Subconscious Mind for Kids
Imagine your brain is like an iceberg floating in the ocean. You know how you can only see the tip of an iceberg above the water, but there's a lot more ice hidden below?
Connecting the Dots: Art Therapy's Gentle Guidance into Interoception
Understanding our emotions and internal sensations can often be likened to solving a intricate puzzle. For some, this challenge can be particularly pronounced. However, there's a valuable and supportive approach that comes to light – art therapy.