This guided imagery exercise is perfect for connecting to your inner beauty. Take three deep breaths in. Feel your tummy expand like a balloon as your breathe in. Feel your tummy fall down flat as you breathe out. Concentrate on making your body relaxed, feel each...

Three Stars and a Wish
This is an adapted version of a literary tool used in many schools. It is usually used for editing written work. Children are instructed to find three things that they like about the work and then identify one wish about something they would like to see different or...
Worry Bubbles
Worry Bubbles This activity is designed to help children to let go of worry. It is a visual activity that combines thought and action to assist the child in letting go. The activity not only helps the child to visualize worries drifting away, but it also promotes...
Vacuum Your Day
As I was putting my daughter to bed the other night, she was experiencing some fear from a dream she’d had the night before. We completed the following guided visualization activity in order to facilitate the sleep process.Steps: Close your eyes and take a deep...
The Worry Wall
The Worry Wall Steps: 1. Design a sheet of poster board or other large paper to be your designated “worry wall.” 2. Have sticky notes ready and tell kids that they can draw or write a worry as it comes up and place it on the worry wall. 3. At the end of the day—pick...
Emotional Regulation Activity: Grounding Energy
I am a Tree When we talk about “grounding” we are pulling our energy into our own space and anchoring ourselves to the earth. Sometimes when we are overly forgetful or feeling “spacey” it is because our energy is spread out all around us, making us feel off-center...

