3 Steps to Help Teens Process Big Emotions
Jun 07, 2022
Have you ever kept your feelings to yourself? Because they're big, maybe too risky to express? If so, you can understand why your teen may hide their feelings and shut you out.
While it's normal that kids don't want to share with their parents, there's a big downside. Hidden, negative feelings grow and lead to depression and isolation. They see their feelings as bad, and judge themselves as different, weird, abnormal.
The first step to help your teen through this is to neutralize and normalize those big emotions. Here are three conversation starters:
* To be human is to have feelings.
* Feelings just are. They come and they go.
* It's normal/understandable for you to feel this way i.e. given what you went through.
It doesn't matter if it's something that happened to them or a problem of their own making. Emotions must be expressed in some way, allowed to leave the mind and body.
The sooner you start, the better your teen's mental health can be. Today is a good day to start.
** Someone you know needs to hear this. Please share.
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