What is happening inside your body in response? Where do you feel it? What is the quality of your thoughts? Once we have a toolbox for recognizing what’s happening inside and what we are feeling, then we can observe the habits and patterns we have in place and decide if they are serving us. When we know how to do this for ourselves, we can teach children to notice these signs, too. Jaxson was hitting and kicking a lot at school. To support Jaxson in developing new tools for expressing his emotions, we began by helping him notice what was happening in his body before the explosion. “Your
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