Warning: This episode could act as a trigger due to its topic. Please listen with caution.

The murders in Uvalde, Texas this week may pull for many different reactions to such senseless violence. And the unbelievable but very real fact that children were once again targeted makes it even more devasting. 

I humbly offer these suggestions to you to help you make sense and give direction to your own swirling emotions as well as the way to talk to your children about how they might be feeling.

• Look around you and do something you have control over.
• Talk to your children. Allow them to share and work through their feelings and guide them to focus on an act of kindness toward others.
• Journal your own feelings but couple that expression with a plan, no matter how simple.
• Ask for help if you need it.
• Use your anger or anguish not as a weapon, but as motivation.
• This is trauma. Know that you are being affected. And that the only healing direction is through the feelings that you have. 
• And as always, take very good care. Of yourself, your loved ones, and your community.

You can hear more about mental health and many other topics by listening to my podcast, SelfWork with Dr. Margaret Rutherford. Subscribe to my websiteand receive one weekly newsletter including my weekly blog post and podcast! If you’d like to join my FaceBook closed group, then click here and answer the membership questions! Welcome!

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