The Freeze Stress Response: Why You Go Deer in the Headlights 0
An explanation of the freeze stress response—how the nervous system shuts down or immobilizes under stress and trauma, why it happens, and examples of what it can look like in everyday life.
Social Emotional Learning (SEL): Definition, Competencies, and Benefits 0
Social Emotional Learning helps kids develop essential life skills — like understanding emotions, handling challenges, building healthy relationships, and making thoughtful decisions.
In this SEL quick, guide you’ll learn what SEL is, its history, the 5 CASEL competencies, and research-backed benefits.
Positive Affirmations for Kids: Build Confidence & Character 0
Affirmations aren’t just for adults! Kids can benefit from positive affirmations too. These simple positive messages can help children and teens build confidence, manage emotions, and develop the skills they need to navigate challenges. More than just feel-good phrases, affirmations can reinforce positive behaviors, encourage better decision-making, and support a growth mindset.
In this post, you'll find creative ways to introduce affirmations to kids, fun activities to make them engaging, ready-to-use affirmations, and guidance for creating personalized affirmations.
Here's everything you need to know to use affirmations to help your children and teens build confidence, resilience, and positive character traits.
- Ann Silvers
- Tags: affirmations self-esteem and self-confidence
Silver Lining Series of Workbooks, Journals, and Planners 0
Through my work as a counselor, I’ve seen firsthand what helps people build resilience, improve relationships, and create positive change in their lives. I bring that experience into my writing, creating resources that are both self-help (for individuals) and helper-help (for professionals like therapists, teachers, and group leaders).
Whether you're working through anxiety, exploring emotional intelligence, or simply looking for a better way to track your to-dos, these workbooks, journals, and planner provide structured support for real-life challenges.
What Are Emotional Triggers? Identify & Manage Your Reactions 0
Emotional triggers are feelings, events, situations, places, people, and things that propel overreactions, anxiety, anger, withdrawal, or other negative automatic responses. They are often associated with negative past experiences that get tapped into by current events.
Recognizing and managing your triggers is vital for your own well-being, happy relationships, and career success.
What Is Mental Filtering? Exposing This Cognitive Distortion 0
Mental filtering is one of the most common cognitive distortions, impacting your outlook by causing a hyperfocus on the negative while ignoring the positive.
If you've ever allowed one small piece of constructive criticism to overshadow lots of positive feedback for a job well done, that’s an example of the mental filter cognitive distortion.
Let’s explore what mental filtering is, its effects, and practical ways to counteract it.
