Supporting a child through intense emotions while managing your own is challenging work. Part of this is to practise ...

Emotions are central to most, if not all, mental health concerns, and this is particularly true in the case of disordered eating and eating disorders. Disordered eating behaviours often serve to ...

Imagine that you are a 4-year-old again, and your grandparents gave you a beautiful golden teddy bear with a bright red ribbon around its neck. You took this teddy bear with you everywhere and it was ...

When parents strive to raise emotionally aware, communicative children, the outcome often looks ideal from the outside: kids who are loved, supported and encouraged. But according to a graduate ...

I go to the park every day. Yesterday, I overheard a mom talking to her five-year-old who’d scraped his knee. “I know that ...

What: Deep Breaths: Validating Your Child’s Emotions and Needs, an Eat Chat Parent event presented by the Eagle River Youth Coalition. When: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23. Where: Eagle Valley ...

Validating someone’s emotions means acknowledging them. You are not agreeing or disagreeing with the feelings; you are demonstrating that you hear the other person. You likely have noticed that logic ...

You end your session feeling great. You were listened to, supported, and validated in all your choices. Yet week after week, nothing changes. You’re still in the same unhealthy relationship, stuck at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Navigating conversations with emotional intelligence is like having a secret superpower. You know how to gauge the room, ...