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At Crossroads Counseling and Life Coaching, we understand that there may be times when life's circumstances feel overwhelming and uncertain. During these times, many find it helpful to work with a professional who can help to restore clear direction. Our Christian worldview allows us to offer support and counsel with a loving, open, and non-judgmental perspective. Our goal is to provide clear direction for our clients and to help them become personally empowered to face life's many challenges. As licensed professionals and life coaches, we provide services and assessments (psychological testing) for a wide variety of life situations, such as depression, anxiety, ADHD, dementia, sexual assault and abuse, parenting, traumatic events, autism, childhood disorders, marital/relationship problems, grief, finances, and other difficult life transitions.

10/31/2025

It's National Sensory Awareness Month 🧡💙

What could you add to this list of fight response?

FIGHT, Flight, Freeze & Fawn

- noncompliant
- hitting and punching
- biting
- aggressive
- demanding
- angry and furious
- controlling
- crying
- argumentative
- hyperactive

Sensory Processing Disorder Parent Support
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10/31/2025

It's National Sensory Awareness Month 🧡💙

What could you add to these flight responses?

Fight, FLIGHT, Freeze & Fawn

- stimming
- anxious and panicking
- fidgeting
- having tantrums
- hiding
- avoiding
- feeling trapped
- wandering
- running away
- wanting to escape

Sensory Processing Disorder Parent Support
sensoryprocessingdisorderparentsupport.com

10/31/2025

When a child’s emotional brain takes over, logic and reason switch off — and connection becomes the bridge back to calm.

These phrases don’t fix the feeling; they regulate the brain behind it.
Save this as part of your calm-down toolkit and share with anyone who supports children through big emotions.

You can find more brain-based strategies like this in The Child Brain Toolkit — download from The Contented Child via link in comments or Linktree Store in Bio.

10/29/2025

A child’s nervous system can’t regulate well when their body’s needs aren’t met.

Sometimes the most powerful support is meeting the physical need first.

Download our Managing Big Feelings, a Toolkit for Parents & Educators - link in comments ⬇️ or via our Linktree Store in Bio.

10/29/2025

VOICE OF THE CHILD:
“When I am mid-meltdown, I need…”

So often, a child’s behaviour during a meltdown is misunderstood as defiance, attention-seeking, or lack of discipline.
But what’s really happening is distress — not disobedience.

This visual gives a glimpse into what a young person might wish they could say in those intense moments, if they could find the words.

Our Managing Difficult Feelings Toolkit helps parents and educators understand what’s underneath these moments — and how to respond in ways that calm the brain, protect connection, and build emotional safety.
Download your toolkit at link in comments or via Linktree Shop in Bio.

What helps your child most when they’re overwhelmed? Let’s share ideas that make those moments a little gentler for everyone.

10/29/2025

Before a child can calm themselves, they first need to experience calm with someone.
Co-regulation is the bridge — it’s how children borrow our calm to find their own.

When adults stay steady through storms of big feelings, we’re not just managing behaviour — we’re wiring the brain for emotional safety and self-control.

Explore practical ways to support co-regulation and help children manage big feelings with our Managing Big Feelings Toolkit for Parents & Educators. Link in comments or via Linktree Shop in Bio.

10/26/2025

And so it is...
Creator unknown- shared with Gratitude.

The Wyse Woman

10/24/2025

WHEN I COME OUT OF SCHOOL…

I’ve held it together all day — smiling when I didn’t feel OK, copying others so I could fit in, keeping my stims small and hidden.

So when I come out of school…
Please don’t ask me to talk straight away.
Please don’t tell me how good I was.
Please just let me rest, be quiet, and feel safe again.

Want to understand more about masking and neurodivergent wellbeing?

Explore the full Masking Toolkit by The Contented Child for visuals, guides, and practical tools that help uncover what’s behind the mask — and support children to feel safe being their true selves. Link in comments ⬇️ or via Linktree Shop in our Bio.

NOTE
Some children do mask so competently that it can be hard to get a diagnosis - that is why I created Meet My Brain: Power & the Tricky Bits. Link in comments.

10/21/2025

Some Autism traits are well known and overgeneralized while others are less known and often subtle differences.

Autism is a combination of characteristics and not just 1-2 traits. It includes differences in social communication and interests and routines. Here are how these lesser known traits are categorized:

Social communication:
Stereotypes: non-speaking, socially avoidant
Nonstereotypical differences: difficulty understanding abstract language and concepts (such as time concepts, pronouns, prepositions), flat affect/ exaggerated facial expressions or body language, advanced communication skills, socially motivated but different in *how* they socialize

Interests & routines:
Stereotypical: only likes one thing, extremely distressed with all changes in routine
Non-stereotypical/lesser known: collecting items (and often not using said items for play or other purpose), difficulty transitioning before precious task is complete (or if previous task is not “perfect”), strong sense of direction on roads (tied to memory skills and routines), and carries a comfort item everywhere

This area also includes sensory differences such as: holding hands out or shaping body in tight or unusual ways, running fingers along the hall walls, discomfort in crowds, high or low pain tolerance

Differences in Autism can vary from person to person and an autistic person may have all of the differences in this visual, or non of the differences in this visual. But all autistic people will have *some* differences in social communication and interest and routines.

10/18/2025

This new systematic review consisting of 31 studies investigated patterns in individuals with - the researchers found that individuals with ADHD showed a significantly higher prevalence of sensory differences across all four domains of the Sensory Profile assessment compared to those without ADHD.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2025.02.019

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