Blue Door Counseling

12/24/2025

12/23/2025

A good reminder for upcoming days!

Credit: The Contented Child, Child Wellbeing Consultancy

Exciting events like Christmas often come loaded with expectation.
Children are expected to cope, wait, behave, feel grateful, and enjoy every moment.

But excitement puts the brain into a high-arousal state.
When anticipation, stimulation, and pressure stack together, regulation becomes harder — and dysregulation often follows.

That’s when parental frustration creeps in, not because anyone is doing anything wrong, but because excited brains are hard to manage.
If you haven’t already, see our earlier post on Excitement and the Brain for the why behind this.

These small, simple tweaks help keep excitement at manageable levels — so Christmas feels safer for everyone’s nervous system.

12/23/2025

The greatest gift… a nervous system reset! 🎁

Credit Journey to Wellness

12/22/2025

Some great reminders for us all this holiday week! ✨

12/21/2025

Today’s Winter Solstice brings us reminders that…

❄️ Credit Positively Present

12/18/2025

A wonderful reminder from Synergetic Play Therapy Institute ⭐️

12/17/2025

Needed this reminder today!

Credit:Yourhumantherapists

You are worth holding space for too, therapists.

12/16/2025

Use your energy wisely! 💛

Credit Peaceful Mind Peaceful Life

Be comfortable in your own skin.
Know who you are.

Understand deeply that what people do is never a reflection of you and is always their perception of life.

You are not for everyone and they are not always for you.

When you are not included, invited, or considered, whisper to yourself, “Thank you for the space necessary in my life for the people that matter most to me. I am blessed.” 🤍

(Stop using your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe, create, love, grow, glow, manifest, and heal.-unknown)

12/12/2025

What is your favorite “free” activity of this list? Take some moments this weekend to enjoy your free time! 🩵

Credit Motivation Novel

💯🙌

12/11/2025

Keep your chin up and feel the feels. ☃️

Credit Happiness Project

sometimes we melt, and that’s okay!

you’re allowed to have hard days, it’s part of being human.

let yourself feel ❤️

12/10/2025

💛

Credit Mama Instincts
Repost Richard Cohen’s “Zen and the Art of Early Childhood"

12/09/2025

A life of simplicity can be more valuable than many items. ✨

Credit NeuroChild Community

When you simplify a child’s world, you make space for positive growth, creativity and relaxation. ❤

The benefits of simplifying your child’s world are many. And it can make your life more fulfilling, too. Children flourish when they have the time and space to explore their world without the constraints of “too much.” Kids are experiencing sensory overload with “too many trinkets, too many choices and too much information.” By approaching parenting using simplicity as a framework, parents may be able to significantly reduce a child’s daily stress which can lead to happier, more successful children.

Children need time to become themselves–through play and social interaction. If you overwhelm a child with stuff– with choices and pseudo-choices– -before they are ready, they will only know one emotional gesture: More! As you decrease the quantity of your child’s toys and clutter, you increase their attention and their capacity for deep play. Too much stuff leads to too little time and too little depth in the way kids see and explore their worlds.

Along the same lines, simplifying your family’s schedule can reduce the frantic feeling of always being on the go. Kids with a full plate of school work, extracurricular activities or sports each day may feel stressed and chaotic since they’re lacking the free time children need for creative play and exploration. And when you set effective screen time limits, you’ll keep your child distraction-free and help her learn to find joy in the present moment.

Rest nurtures creativity, which nurtures activity. Activity nurtures rest, which sustains creativity. Each draws from and contributes to the other. By simplifying, we can concentrate on what we really value, not just spend our days reacting to everything the world throws at us.

✨ Read more about the gift of forgiveness this holiday season on our blog here: https://neuro.now/lived_experience/gift-of-forgiveness-letting-go-of-regrets/

References:
https://www.greenchildmagazine.com/simplify-for-happier-calmer-kids/

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