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Bringing Your Whole Healthy Self to Work and Home
Cindy Clark, MS, OTR/L, BCP, CIMI/L
MINDING THE CHILDREN
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Agenda
•Introductions
•What is Stress?
•Types of Stress
•What causes stress?
•How stress affects adults and children
•Strategies to relieve stress in children and yourself
•Resources
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Introductions
•All about you
•All about me
•What do you want to know?
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Breathe
Let’s all take a breath.
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What is Stress?
Stress is a specific response by your brain and body to a stimulus, such as fear or pain, that interferes with the normal
physiological balance of your brain and body.
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Types of Stress
• “Fight or Flight”
•Toxic Stress -Is overwhelming, unavoidable, greater than your resources
•“Tend and Beneficial” – stimulates oxytocin
•Challenge response
• similar to fight or flight but more focused than fearful
•Helps the procedural learning part of brain
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Brain Structures
•Brainstem
•Limbic system
•Amygdala
•Hypothalamus
•Cortex
•Autonomic nervous system
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How Stress Affects Your Body
“Fight or Flight” Reaction Autonomic Nervous System Sympathetic Parasympathetic HPA Axis Hypothalamus Pituitary Adrenal glands - Cortisol
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Causes of Stress
•Biological or medical
•Personal or social factors
•Family Circumstances
•Sociodemographic factors
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How Stress Affects Your Body
•Increases blood sugar
•Weight gain – initially fluid, then fat
•Memory loss and difficulty learning
•Muscle tension
•Insomnia
•Increases blood pressure
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Effects of Stress on Child Development
•Shortens telomeres
• Increased blood pressure and clogged arteries
• Increased aggression and predatory violence
• Increased depression and/or anxiety
•Decreased ability to learn
•Altered sleep patterns
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What Stress Looks like in Children
•Dull, unsparkling eyes
•Body arching
•Avoiding eye contact
•Limp, floppy body
•Inconsolable crying for long periods
•Long and frequent temper tantrums
•Overly anxious or overly compliant with adults
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Prevent Stressors for Kids
•Reduce clutter and over-stimulation
•Alternate space for children stressed by group play in the gym
•Tell children exactly what will happen ahead of time
•Redirect rather than reprimand
•Create a diversion
•Gentle magic
•Understanding a child’s misbehavior
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Stress Relief Strategies for Teachers
•Developing a child’s self-esteem is the key to helping children develop resiliency towards dealing with stress
•Show genuine pleasure in a child’s source of interest and pleasure
•Provide unobtrusive help when a task is a little too hard
•Accept a child’s self-comforting needs
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Stress Relief Strategies for Individual Children
•Provide soothing physical contact
•massage
•Lowered tone of voice
•Use child’s name frequently and lovingly
•Create a cozy corner
•Put a personal photo book in each child’s cubby
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Stress Relief Strategies for Groups of Children
•Circle Time
•Breathing
• Jell-O eyeballs
•Accept the awesome physicality of young children
•Provide safe space for vigorous movement
•Bake “Get-Out-the-Mad” cookies
•Peace Rose
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The Oxygen Mask Theory
“In the event of an emergency, please put on your oxygen mask before assisting others.”
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Whole, Healthy Self
Let’s breathe again!
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Whole, Healthy Self
•When you recognize you are bigger than your stress, you shift your biology
•Thoughts can change your body’s stress response
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Whole, Healthy Self
Mindfulness--
Awareness of present moment with acceptance
Ronald Siegel, PsyD
Mindfulness Practices
meditation
prayer
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Whole, Healthy Self
Experience flashes of beauty
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Whole, Healthy Self
Physical Activity
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Whole, Healthy Self
Sleep
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Whole, Healthy Self
Put down your Smartphone!
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Whole, Healthy Self
SMILE!
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Whole, Healthy Self
Do an activity that makes you feel
personally competent
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Whole, Healthy Self
People who read for pleasure on a regular
basis report less stress than non-readers
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Whole, Healthy Self
Practice forgiveness – including yourself
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Resources
•Link to 16 minute guided relaxation by
Cathy Holway DPT http://bit.ly/1e6ZXZp
•Breathe2Relax App for guided belly breathing
•Simply Being App, guided meditation
•Put on Your Oxygen Mask First: 6 Tips for Self-Care on the Job, Amy Jen Su, Huffington Post 3/25/13
•Hong, A. (2010) little kids, BIG WORRIES. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing.
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Thank You, Be Healthy!