How you can help your child manage and express their emotions?
Behind every behaviour there is a feeling Is your child struggling with anxiety? Are they unwilling to try anything? Is their behaviour out of character and causing stress to the whole family?
Children can struggle to express emotions and if they are not taught to recognise, understand and work through them they can end up suppressing the negative ones which over time can be expressed as ill health or a behaviour. Children have so much to give and yet we are seeing more and more children suffering with mental health issues. The National Health Executive states “One in six children and young people had a probable mental health disorder in July during the first wave of coronavirus, compared to just one in nine back in 2017” As an Holistic Therapist and qualified Pharmacist with experience working in special needs schools and as a parent of a dyslexic child, I understand how frustrating it can be as a parent and from the child’s point of view when they are struggling and can’t explain what is wrong.
I get it. For a number of years my son used to hide behind the curtain; he would storm out of the room if he knew he had done something wrong and he never appeared to hear anything I said. I knew something wasn’t right but I felt totally helpless because I just couldn’t get through to him. I also became increasingly frustrated with the school systems for dealing with a child who didn’t quite seem to fit into a specific box.
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Then we discovered he had dyslexia and this led me on a path to understanding not just how dyslexics react to things but children in general.
All these experiences have made me realise that everything comes back to our feelings and the associated energy of those feelings. Emotions are basically energy (the latin word for emotions is “emotere” = energy in motion) and in holistic therapy terms this energy affects the energy centres of our body which are known as chakras. If the feelings are negative and therefore the energy is negative it can cause blockages in the chakra system which leads to more disruption. We have seven main chakras in our body, each represented by a different colour of the rainbow and each affected by different feelings. Children are generally very visual and even
