Below are some suggestions about how to promote holistic health for your kiddos. Consider building one activity from each activity into your daily schedule. Emotional Check in with your kids using happy, mad, sad face drawings. Let kids each build a “safe place” fort in a separate area of your …
What in the world are they doing for therapy? This is a question that you as a parent might have been asking before the COVID-19 outbreak and move to telehealth. And now you might really be wondering what in the world the therapist is doing with your child. As a …
Care for yourself is just as important! Kids regulate in response to the adults around them, so the calmer you are, the calmer they will be. Here are just a few ways to help you keep your cool in these changing times: Emotional Acknowledge your anxieties and/or frustrations. Journal or …
This past weekend I noticed two frustrated but kind moms attempting to protect their young children from the COVID 19 virus. As I was waiting at the grocery checkout, a mom behind me was trying to keep her young boy from leaning on the register and touching the conveyor belt; …
Balance feels so elusive these days, doesn’t it? Extreme things are happening worldwide and it’s changing rapidly. In Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI), we emphasize the importance of balancing nurture with structure. We understand that when we lean too much one way or another, we deprive our kids of critical opportunities. We seek balance in our own lives because we recognize …
In this clip of the Family Care Learning Podcast, we hear from Haley and Garrett who have fostered a few children with Christian Family Care. Haley and Garrett discuss how they knew it would be hard fostering children but they didn’t know it would test and strengthen their faith. “It’s …
In this clip of the Family Care Learning Podcast, Brandon Jones interviews Haley and Garrett who have fostered a few children with Christian Family Care. Haley and Garrett discuss how they were grieving as couple after their foster kids were reunited with their bio families. See the full podcast on …
In this clip of the Family Care Learning Podcast, we hear from Garrett who discusses his experience of going through the stages of grief as a man. Garrett is a financial analyst. Him and his wife, Haley discuss how they were grieving at different times and in different ways after …
In this clip of the Family Care Learning Podcast from episode #5, we hear from Haley who is one of our child and family therapists at Arizona Family Counseling who talks about anticipatory grief in foster care. A lot of times foster care can be very up and down emotionally. …
In this clip of the Family Care Learning Podcast from episode #5, we hear from Haley who is one of our child and family therapists at Arizona Family Counseling who talks about trusting God while doing foster care. Brandon, another one of our child and family therapists at Arizona Family …