Just because you’re young, doesn’t mean you don’t have worries, emotional health practitioner Jo Morton-Brown tells children. Using a collection of teddies to represent worries, Jo explains how talking about worries can help children manage them. She tells children how to be kind to their minds, and open themselves up to new ideas […]
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Teaching kids to be kind to their minds
Struggle & success
New masterclass: mental wellbeing for children
Struggle & success
Emotional health practitioner Jo Morton-Brown works as a school counsellor, for kids aged 4 to 18. In our exclusive FREE new masterclass, Jo has recorded a chapter for each age group, to help children and young people understand how they are feeling so they can better help themselves. You can access the masterclass […]
How yoga can help with your child’s anxiety
Struggle & success
Katy Swift shows us some simple yoga poses you can do with children, to help them if they are feeling anxious. You can see more of Katy’s videos here.
Out of the Dark
Struggle & success
Artist Flora McDonnell has struggled with anxiety and depression since childhood. She said: “I always felt that it was something wrong with me which made me try harder – reinforcing a pattern that make depressive episodes more likely. Realising that I was one of many and that I could be helped to help myself live […]
Nurturing the young individual
Feed your mind
Sophie Kirby Research shows that the consistent loving attention of just one caregiver makes all the difference to a child’s chances of long-term mental health. At Sophie and Friends, our mission is to offer that voice of care.Our videos aim to nurture preschool and primary-aged children and provide a loving refuge.At our core is the message: We are all worthy of love, just […]
A Guided Meditation for Kids
Feed your mind
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Enchanted Forest by Michelle Roberton-Jones This guided meditation for children offers a chance to interact and really explore their imagination as they meet with Eeny, Meeny, Miney and Mo in the Enchanted Forest. The perfect meditation to develop young minds from Michelle Roberton-Jones.
Letter To My Mother | Spoken Word by Mim Shaikh
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BBC Radio 1Xtra & BBC Asian Network’s DJ, Mim Shaikh’s spoken word video details his mother’s mental health and the affect it’s had on his life. ‘I wrote this sincere and honest open ‘Letter To My Mother’ where I express my most honest thoughts and feelings towards our lacking relationship whilst growing up. This is […]