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Category: A look at one emotion

Words for Anger

This ‘anger words’ sheet is used in my latest video in the series: ACTIVITIES TO EXPLORE EMOTIONS that I will…

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Published June 15, 2022
Categorized as A look at one emotion, activities, Anger

What can we say about anxiety?

My video: What can we say about anxiety?  covers what anxiety is, why we evolved it, how it can affect us and…

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Published November 5, 2021
Categorized as A look at one emotion, anxiety, emotional literacy, Understanding emotions, Worry

What can we say about fear?

My latest video: What can we say about fear? looks at the emotion of fear, the fear response and its links to…

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Published October 22, 2021
Categorized as A look at one emotion, anxiety, emotional literacy, Videos

What can we say about hurt?

A video about the emotion or experience of being hurt can be found here: What can we say about hurt? The main…

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Published October 4, 2021
Categorized as A look at one emotion, emotional literacy, Videos

What can we say about happiness?

My latest video explores both the emotion of joy and the kind of happiness that’s about how content we are…

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Published September 21, 2021
Categorized as A look at one emotion, emotional literacy, Happiness, Videos

What can we say about shame?

I made the video: What can we say about shame? to explore this somewhat less straightforward but powerful emotion. Here are…

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Published August 28, 2021
Categorized as A look at one emotion, emotional literacy, Videos

Coping with sadness

To support the video I made: What can we say about sadness? here are some notes and activity ideas. Message…

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Published August 19, 2021
Categorized as A look at one emotion, emotional literacy, sadness, Videos

Expressing anger (and a look at boundaries as another way of considering assertiveness!)

As I have said in earlier posts, healthy emotions arrive and leave. In other words: they flow .  That makes…

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Published November 29, 2020
Categorized as A look at one emotion, Anger, emotional literacy

Looking at Individual Emotions in Greater Detail

This is a short post to introduce the idea of taking an emotion at a time and exploring it in…

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Published November 18, 2020
Categorized as A look at one emotion, activities, emotional literacy

Disappointment – making effective coping strategies more conscious!

I was disappointed this week in an ‘I was really, really looking forward to something that now isn’t going to…

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Published September 23, 2019
Categorized as A look at one emotion, emotional literacy

Understanding and normalising anger

The emotion that seems to cause the most concern with parents/carers that I talk to is their child’s anger. This…

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Published March 24, 2019
Categorized as A look at one emotion, emotional literacy

Make a Worry Mashing Machine

This is an an fun way to explore coping strategies for worrying, with your child. The idea is you’re going…

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Published February 11, 2019
Categorized as A look at one emotion, emotional literacy, Worry

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