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If you're stuck trying to get kids to calm using their breath before, but haven't been able to get them to do it, I totally understand! If you're tired of sitting out the meltdown and just hoping it will end, you're not alone.
Yep, it's the hard wired switch to move out of Survival Mode to Social Engagement Mode - that's techno-speak for out-of-control to in-control!
Once you really understand the signs of stress in yourself or the children you care for, and understand the science of what you're seeing, you'll be confident that you've got this no matter when or where. You'll be able to explain to those around you what to do to help you or help them!
I work as a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and have worked in lots of hard-to-get-to place in the Australian Outback, juvenile and adult prisons and remote Indigenous communities.
I help professionals who work with children to track the child's stress to help them settle and learn about doing it themselves.
You can't feel right if your body doesn't feel right, so I teach dialing right into how the body is feeling as a great way to catch stress early. We then look at how we can talk directly to your body to help it feel safe using breathing and sensory grounding.
"If I remember to do the 4:7:8 breathing when I go into survival mode, I can stop myself losing it and getting into trouble."
- Year 8 student Derby Australia
" We use Tracking Better® with the kids to help them recognise when they are getting stressed, so they understand why we are helping them calm"
- Primary school teacher Fitzroy Valley, Australia
"Using sports watches and watching their heart rate lower, really helped them understand that breathing works."
- Mental Health Clinician Melbourne, Australia.