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Social Emotional Learning: What SEL is and How to Teach It 0

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) helps kids develop essential life skills—like understanding emotions, handling challenges, building healthy relationships, and making thoughtful decisions.

In this post, you’ll learn what Social Emotional Learning is, its history, why it matters, and how to use it with school-age children. You’ll also discover research-backed benefits, practical strategies, and skill-building resources for adults and teens.

It's a helpful guide for teachers, school counselors, therapists, homeschoolers, and parents, whether you're just beginning to think about SEL or looking to up your Social Emotional Learning game. 

18 Cognitive Distortions That Can Twist Your Thinking 0

Cognitive distortions are negative thinking patterns that twist how you see yourself, others, and the world around you. They create a negative narrative that distorts reality and makes things seem worse than they are. 

Each one represents a way people can distort their view of themselves, others, or the world. Learning about them might help you spot a negative mind trap you hadn’t noticed before.

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.

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.

Building Resilience: 20 Life Lesson Quotes with Graphics 0

Building resilience is key to navigating life’s challenges. It helps you adapt, recover, and grow stronger when faced with difficulties. Healthy, resilient coping mechanisms help you bounce back after adversity. This post explores how hard times both require and strengthen resilience, highlighting six key qualities that support it: courage, patience, optimism, gratitude, flexibility, and perseverance.

Discover 20 short, inspiring, motivational resilience quotes to help you turn obstacles into opportunities for personal growth.

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.