Psychologist Marianna Legaki

06/02/2024

Hello everyone,
More and more parents are visiting my private practice, suspecting their kid has adhd, or for underline reasons due to undiagnosed adhd. ( anxiety, low self esteem, negative self-image, social difficulties)..
Many adults have lived their whole life thinking something is wrong on the way they process information, and keep themselves organized..

This is an one hour seminar for kids, adults and parents who want to learn more about it. We will talk about strategies, and at the end we hope we can spend some time answering some interesting Q&As..!
Whoever is interested please rsvp on the email mentioned below.
See you tomorrow!

21/06/2022

How many languages of love do we have?
How did we program ourselves in an early age to love, to show affection, to provide care, to communicate our needs, to express our feelings?
Tell me how you were loved and i will tell you all..

09/05/2022

If we care about the emotional health in our society, then the emotional health of mothers needs to be the enumber one priority!
Emotional health is INHERITED: passed down to each generation.
We have to start teaching women:
how to breathe with their children,
how to soothe themselves( so they can soothe their children),
and how to be the secure space for a child to speak while they sit presently, listening.
We have to learn to become vulnerable, to ask sorry.
We have to learn how to fight and when to let it go.
We have to learn to put boundaries for ourselves(so they can put boundaries later on)
We have to learn to be ourselves, to love ourselves..

Being a mother makes you realize that its in your hand to break the transgenrational chain and change yours and your child's future..

29/03/2022

When we are children, our parents are our whole world and they create our entire reality.
While they teach us things verbally
"say thank you", "you have to share", "say the magic world "please-sorry"...__
they teach us MANY things nonverbally.
Most of these things parents aren't even conscious that they are teaching.

As kids we are sponges and absorb everything we see and those experiences become memories that live in our subconscious mind and condition our...

1)CORE BELIEFS ABOUT WHO WE ARE:
When our parents talk about us we absorb everything and we take it as 100% truth. It's like they are writting the script of who we are and who will become in our adult life. (though most of what they say about us reflects our parents' emotional state and not the truth of who we are)

2)HOW TO REGULATE EMOTIONS:
When we watch our parents dealing with the "difficult feelings" it teaches us how to navigate similar feelings.

3)HOW TO HAVE BOUNDARIES:
We learn boundaries through the boundaries our parents model (or don't model). On the first case we learn to respect the limits of other and firmly place ours. On the second, we become codependent and we develop people pleasing behaviors as we feel guilty to do it.

4)HOW TO TREAT OURSELVES
Parents who are connected to their needs, treat their body/mind well, model the same behavior to us. Parents who neglect their needs, always sacrifice themselves for the rest, they unconsciously teach us our needs do not matter.

5)OUR RELATIONSHIP DYNAMICS
We learn how relationship work by the first relationship we witness, our parent figures. We learn how to love, how to fight, how to communicate, to reconcile, to be vulnerable. And all those become the foundation of how we function in adult relationshps.

13/05/2020

A pediatric occupational therapist talks about the need for kids to move -- and the consequences when they can't.

13/05/2020

Plus, how you can bring more affection into your family's day.

11/05/2020

More children are likely to experience toxic stress during the pandemic, which could lead to devastating impacts in the future.

02/05/2020

Kids have all sorts of big feelings. They may feel sad, nervous, or frustrated, just to name a few feelings. And they may have trouble calming down. Sesame Street to the rescue, once again! Through

30/04/2020

Goodmorning people!
Today I'm going to give a live interview to wonderful Suarez about the psychological effect on kids during confinement.
What should we do to make our child's life more bearable? To prevent any psychological damage along the way?
If you want to hear more get tuned at 18.30 on her page..

Starting this week I'll be going live Tuesday to Thursday and there are some interesting things coming up!

Tomorrow, Veronica Polo and Anthony Rotsa from Act Out Talleres de teatro en ingles. will share with us some fun activities we can do with our kids.

On Wednesday, I'll be doing my biweekly check in on how our life with schools closed (and now being able to go outside!) is like.

On Thursday, Marianna Legaki, child psychologist and family therapist, will share with us the impact the lockdown may have on our children.

As always, I also have my free, weekly group call where we share our experience with fellow parents.

https://facebook.com/events/s/weekly-parent-sessions/2787910974659361/?ti=cl

Have a wonderful week!