How to give your teen the tools and vocabulary for emotional health with Michelle Nietert LPC
My guest today, Michelle Nietert, brings so much wisdom and applicable ways to foster our mental health. I know I’m constantly evaluating my kids ... and my own ... mental health (which probably drives them crazy) and I bet your radar is elevated as well.
We discuss how COVID has affected our mental health, how to dig into the answer of “good” or “fine” when you ask how things are going, the one thing Michelle would pack in every child’s backpack, and so much more.
Michelle is a professional counselor for 20 years, podcast co-host of Raising Brave Beauties, and coauthor of Loved and Cherished: 100 Devotions for Girls. She provides practical solutions, real life examples and joins her audiences in the parenting trenches raising two school aged children.
We discuss:
- How COVID has impacted our mental health
- The importance of and how to model emotions to our children
- How to dig into the answers of “good” and “fine”
- How lack of sleep affects our mental health
- Determining the line between showing vulnerability to our kids and disclosing too much
- The one thing Michelle would pack into every child’s backpack
- What to remember when your child begins to hold different views than you do
- Your kids are not your parenting report card
- What we should care more about than how our children are behaving
- If your children are struggling it may be part of their testimony
- The importance of hugging and touching your children more now
- The three things to look at to evaluate how our children’s mental health may be
Links Mentioned:
Loved and Cherished: 100 Devotions for Girls
LovedAndCherished.me
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