Champion Your Gifted Child

Let's talk about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. (ADHD)   The three main signs of ADHD are inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity which can show up in different ways. Children with ADHD often feel misunderstood by the people around them.    Verbal communication (Talking things out) can be difficult at times, especially when they don’t have it all together in their minds just yet. And it can be frustrating not to be able to pinpoint the root cause of issues immediately...So we also discuss mindset shifts around the diagnosis, and how those literally change our family life.   In this week's podcast episode, we will talk about ADHD….

Check out our blog: How to Help Your Student with ADHD Thrive at Home and at School

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In this episode, we review findings from an extraordinary book: 

What can we do to ease our chronic stress, anxiety, and traumas? Let us review how trauma or intense stress can have physical manifestations, as the body keeps the score.

We discuss:

-Definition of Trauma, ramifications, impact on our mental health

-The survival brain's "Limbic Highjack" and Faulty Neuroception

- The body keeps the score's trauma-informed thesis.

-Feeling safe again in one's body: 2 example of somatic therapy.

-Our favorite tools to enhance the body's feeling of safety and wellness.

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Welcome to one of my favorite topics, Shadow Work.

*In this episode, we analyze what our subconscious shadow is, how it forms early on in our childhood, as well as our persona, our ego.

*We can gently bring it to light with self-compassion to understand our unseen patterns, stories, and triggers.

*We review the benefits of wholeheartedly accepting ourselves, for ourselves and our gifted child.

*We define Jung's theory of the child's mind opposite to Lock's "Tabula rasa" and how this helps us develop our child's true self.

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So excited for your Shadow Work!✨

xx Laurance

We will start with 5 mins of Square breathing. Breathing can be the difference between anxiety and calm! We will take this time for ourselves. We will take time to breathe.✨

By controlling our breath, we can control our mood.

We can regulate our nervous systems, inhale positivity and exhale negativity ( and toxins). 

We will then have 2 mins of Positive visualization:

-Body scan

-Positive visualization

-A special mindful moment.

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From us to you with love,

xx Laurance

Anyone feeling stressed about back-to-school? It is normal to feel a bit anxious at the beginning of the year, and with last year’s changes, even more...No worries, we have you covered!

In this week's brand new podcast episode, we will talk about how to have a seamless back to school, embracing feelings, providing emotional support, and focusing on Mental Health.

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How can a child thrive with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?

No doubt about it, it takes a village determined to support the child. Successful ADHD families report being supported by teachers, coaches, and extended family members.

It takes most of all the determination, unwavering patience of parents determined to see their child thrive no matter what, determined to see strengths where others see weaknesses.

Debbie Phelps, a middle-school principal in Towson, Maryland, and mother of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, gave multiple interviews about him. Here is what I learned about Debbie.

This summer there will be broken records, broken hearts, massive success, and devastating defeats as the world’s greatest athletes compete...   

There is something about watching human beings compete at such an elevated level... 

What can we learn from the high-performance US Olympics Team and other Olympic teams? And mostly: what can we learn from coaches, as parents, so we support our gifted high performers the best we can?  

I have always been obsessed with what helps someone achieve more, in brief, high performance. in this episode, you will hear my 12 reasons why elite athletes achieve the success they set out as goals.  Take a listen!

Why do some gifted children lack self-esteem? I think it is a valid question...even if not all of them do!

Some children were gifted with so much more intensity, depth, and intelligence. Yet, they don’t appreciate and value their self-worth.

With asynchronous development and overexcitabilities, their social well-being is a bit complicated at times, not always and not necessarily dramatically. But yes, they will display differences compared to this very neurotypical world.

Those differences are the starting point for their discomfort.

Sometimes we know that our highly gifted child is 2 standard deviations or more from the norm. Sometimes we wonder: is my child gifted or just smart?  In this episode we review a strategy to differentiate based on two books:

-Helping Gifted Children Soar (2000) by Carol Strip and Gretchen Hirsch

-A Parent's guide to gifted children, by James Webb

We will also question the validity of our need to know, how we feel about this question and how we attune our own parenting based on the answer. We will also review some practical parenting strategies based on how intensely those gifted traits manifest in our child.

 

In this episode, we review what Depression looks like and how we can help as parents, coaches, or teachers.

We believe there are some things we can do to counter any negative mental health impact:

Check out our poster in our website's blog post: Depression and the Gifted Child 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻