Char's Soul Charm

12/26/2025

Healing the inner child isn’t about fixing yourself — it’s about finally listening, understanding, and giving yourself what you needed back then 🤍

12/21/2025

This is a great reel on your vagus nerve.

12/15/2025

Nature heals.🌱

12/13/2025

Free WHAT A CHILD’S BEHAVIOUR IS REALLY TELLING YOU POSTER

This poster puts into words what many adults feel but struggle to explain.

When a child shouts, refuses, withdraws, lashes out or melts down, it is easy to see behaviour as bad, defiant or attention seeking. This poster clearly shows that behaviour is communication. It helps adults stop reacting to what they see and start thinking about what the child is trying to tell them.

The poster explains how challenging behaviour is often linked to unmet needs such as feeling overwhelmed, unsafe, tired, hungry, anxious, overstimulated or in need of connection. It supports a trauma informed, needs led way of responding that focuses on understanding rather than punishment.

This resource is especially helpful for children who struggle with emotional regulation, big feelings, anxiety, sensory overload, attachment needs or trauma related stress. It helps adults understand what is happening in a child’s nervous system when they are under pressure.

Comment CHILD and we will send you a message with a link to a free PDF of this resource.

12/06/2025

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11/25/2025

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11/25/2025

Many children spend their day holding it together — smiling, complying, masking distress to stay ‘okay’. What looks calm can be the effort of survival.

When the mask slips at home, it’s not manipulation — it’s release. It’s safety.
Understanding the difference changes everything.

Explore Masking: The Toolkit for Parents & Educators — your guide to recognising the signs, reducing the strain, and helping a child feel safe enough to be real. Link in comments or via Linktree Shop in Bio.

11/24/2025

11/21/2025

Fight, flight, freeze, fawn aren’t choices, they’re survival responses.
We don't consciously choose how we respond.
These instincts are automatic survival responses wired into our brains. Understanding this can help us be kinder to ourselves when coping with trauma.

11/12/2025

Let’s talk about stimming.

You may notice a child flap their hands when excited, tap their pencils repeatedly, hum softly, rock back and forth, or pick at their fingers. These movements are known as self-stimulatory behaviours — or ‘stimming’.

Stimming is not attention-seeking.
It’s not misbehaviour.
And it’s certainly not something to be 'trained out'.

Stimming is a regulation tool.
For many neurodivergent young people, it helps calm the nervous system, release built-up energy, manage sensory overwhelm, or express joy.

When we understand stimming as communication and regulation, our response changes.
Instead of “stop that”, we move towards curiosity, support, and providing safe forms of sensory expression.

Save this and share with anyone who supports a young person.