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Journaling for Depression | This post is PACKED with tips and ideas to teach you how to get started with journaling for anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues. Whether you prefer to write your truths on paper, or need a guided journal (we love our bullet journal!), we’ll teach you how to start a journal and keep your thoughts and creativity flowing with 33 journal prompts for depression!

Journaling for Depression and Anxiety: 33 Journal Prompts for Mental Health

Essential Oils for Autism and Sensory Processing Disorder | If you’re looking for natural remedies for autism to help alleviate symptoms of stress, anxiety, insomnia, anger, aggression, lack of focus, ADHD, etc., we’re sharing our favorite single oils you can use to create your own recipes and blends, as well as our recommended doTERRA and Young Living essential oil blends for kids.

Beginners Guide to Essential Oils for Autism and Sensory Processing

Anxiety and Autism | With over 23 coping strategies and anxiety activities for kids, we’re sharing our best tips and strategies to help children with autism, sensory processing disorder, and other special needs deal with the feelings of anxiety, stress, and nervousness they often experience at home and in the classroom. These coping skills and play therapy ideas will help and inspire parents and teachers alike!

Anxiety and Autism: 23 Coping Strategies and Activities for Kids

How to Take Care of Yourself | As a woman (and as a mom), it can often feel impossible to find ways to incorporate self care into our weekly routines. Taking care of our emotional health is important both physically and mentally, and we’ve got 34 tips and tricks to teach you proper stress relief and anxiety relief for a healthy, happy existence!

How to Take Care of Yourself: 34 Stress Relief Tips for Busy Moms

6 Yoga Poses for Stress Relief & Anxiety | Whether you suffer from chronic anxiety and/or depression, or need stress management techniques to help restore a sense of balance and calm, these simple yet effective yoga poses are perfect for beginners and beyond! Not only will they help you reach a state of Zen and relaxation, but they will also help you enjoy restorative sleep. Namaste!

How to Reduce Stress and Anxiety: 6 Yoga Poses for Stress Relief

30 Play Therapy Activities for Kids | 30 simple therapeutic activities for children you can use in a counseling setting or at home to help a child express their emotions surrounding a trauma or ongoing feelings of anxiety. Perfect for toddlers, kids in preschool, school-aged kids, for tweens and teens, and kids with autism, ADHD, and anxiety, these activities offer a great way to teach healthy anger management and coping skills.

Play Therapy Techniques: 30 Therapeutic Activities for Children

Breathing Techniques for Anxiety in Children | If you’re looking for simple relaxation techniques and breathing exercises for kids that work at home and in the classroom, we’ve got 10 ideas to help. These calming activities are perfect for anxiety and stress as well as anger management, and help teach healthy coping skills so kids can calm down on their own when big emotions strike.

Breathing Techniques for Anxiety: 10 Calming Activities for Kids

Gluten Free Casein Free Diet for Autism | The GFCF diet is one of many alternative autism treatments, and some parents see an improvement in autism behaviors when they put their child on a gluten free and dairy free diet. We’re sharing our best beginner tips for a smooth transition to the diet as well as 20 of our favorite kid-approved GFCF recipes to help get you started.

Gluten Free Casein Free Diet for Autism: 29 Tips & Recipes for Parents

DIY Good Behavior Chart for Kids | Looking for a reward system to support your positive reinforcement efforts with children either at home or at school? Perfect for parents trying to control rambunctious boys, teachers trying to enforce classroom rules, and moms who desperately want their morning routines to run smoother, these ideas also work well with special needs kids with autism, ADHD, etc.

Positive Parenting: DIY Good Behavior Chart for Young Kids

21 Sensory Break Activities for Kids | Also known as ‘brain breaks’ & ‘movement breaks’, these sensory breaks for kids are perfect to help students with ADD, ADHD, sensory processing disorder, autism & other developmental delays calm down & focus in the classroom. Perfect for teachers & parents, these fun ideas also develop gross motor skills, improve self-regulation & help with behavior management in the classroom.

Sensory Integration at School: 21 Sensory Break Activities for Kids

7 Home Remedies for Anxiety and Panic Attacks | From essential oils to simple relaxation techniques to deep breathing exercises to help you calm down, this collection of 7 tips to help relieve overwhelming stress and anxiety at home and at work is a must read for those in need of natural anxiety relief!

7 Home Remedies for Anxiety and Panic Attacks That Actually Work!

11 Phrases to Calm an Anxious Child | The internet is full of all the things you should never say to an anxious child as well as great coping skills and tips about children and anxiety, but what parents really need is a list of things to say to an anxious child when big emotions take over. We're sharing 11 ideas and our favorite anxiety books for kids!

How to Help Kids with Anxiety: 11 Phrases to Calm an Anxious Child

56 Occupational Therapy Activities for Kids | Whether your child has sensory processing challenges, struggles with fine motor, gross motor, and/or visual motor skills, needs help with handwriting, or needs core strengthening exercises, we have 56 fun learning activities that are perfect for kids with developmental delays like autism and sensory processing disorder. These pediatric OT ideas will not disappoint!

Learning Through Play: 56 Occupational Therapy Activities and Tips for Kids

Journaling for Mental Health | Lots of great ideas to teach you how to start journaling for anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges as well as for therapy and general self-care. Find out how to get started writing today, keep your thoughts and creativity flowing on the daily, and check out 15 of our favorite therapy journal prompts!

Journaling for Mental Health: How to Start Journaling and Keep at It

17 Zones of Regulation Activities | Trying to teach self-regulation in the classroom or at home? These ideas, lesson plans, worksheets, games, and activities teach kids self-control and self-discipline while also helping them practice their social skills. Perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school, NT kids and children with autism and other special needs, these activities are great for parents and teachers alike!

Self-Regulation in the Classroom: 17 Zones of Regulation Activities

How to Become a Better Person | Want to know how to be a better person, but don’t know where to start? We’ve got 7 simple tips and ideas you can start implementing TODAY to help you find happiness in your relationships and with yourself. We challenge you to do this for 30 days – what do you have to lose?

How to Become a Better Person: 7 Simple Ways to Better Yourself

How to Get Out of a Bad Mood Fast | Life is full of ups and downs – and good and bad people! – and while we aim to be happy each and everyday, there are times when our thoughts run wild and our feelings get hurt. So true, right? The good news is that you are in control, and we’ve got 8 bad mood remedies that work!

How to Get Out of a Bad Mood Fast: 8 Tips That Work!

Transition Strategies for Kids with Autism | Whether you’re a parent looking for transition strategies to help your child with autism cope with day-to-day tasks more easily or a teacher looking for tips and tricks to make classroom transitions easier, we’ve got 10 brilliant ideas to get you started!

Transition Strategies for Kids with Autism: 10 Tips that Work!

Anger Management for Kids | Learn how to teach children self-control with these anger management tips for kids. From coping skills and behavior charts to fun kids games and effective stress relief tips and toys, teaching children to control big emotions isn’t as hard as you might think. We’ve even rounded up 26 super fun anger management activities for kids that feel more like play than work!

Anger Management for Kids: 8 Meaningful Ways to Calm Big Emotions

Taking Care of You: 6 Ways to Improve Emotional Health | Looking for self-care activities for women to boost your physical, emotional, and mental health? We’ve got 6 simple tips to help you maintain your emotional health on the regular as well as 20 simple but effective self-care activities to help you feel good and love yourself when you can’t afford therapy. Perfect for adults, for moms, for college students, for teens, for groups, and for individuals, these ‘all about me’ DIY ideas are for you!

Taking Care of You: 6 Ways to Improve Emotional Health

33 sensory diet activities for kids with autism and/or sensory processing disorder | With occupational therapy tools and ideas, this collection of fun activities is perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, and school-aged kids, and can be practiced both in the home and in the classroom at school. Perfect for parents and teachers alike, we’ve included proprioceptive, vestibular, tactile, auditory, visual, olfactory, and oral motor activities to address all your child's needs!

Sensory diet activities: 33 fun ideas for kids who need sensory input