Making Sense of Meltdowns

How learning about sensory processing changed... everything. My brilliant little 4-year-old son was asked to draw a house at preschool and burst into tears. Bursting into tears was a common occurrence for him, as was picky eating, banging into things, difficulty transitioning from one task to the next, slouching posture, and what I came to realize were a whole host of sensory red flags.  Sensory processing difficulties occur when the brain has trouble receiving, interpreting,...

What to do when life is hard

As I have been connecting with people lately, one theme keeps coming up... Life is hard right now.  There’s an exercise I have been doing in workshops lately that has been really meaningful - and it changes your brain chemistry!  If at all possible, will you pause with me for 3 minutes?  [smartslider3 slider="1"] If that’s all you have time for, keep going with your day knowing that you just activated the caregiving part of...