The Glenbard Parent Series: (GPS) Navigating Healthy Families will presented Take in the Good: Skills for Staying Positive, Reducing Stress and Living Your Best Life with Gina Biegel for two programs on Wednesday, Feb. 15 via Zoom.
Whether young people encounter sensory overload from electronic devices, cyberbullying or academic pressures, they would benefit from practicing self-care.
Choosing to focus on positive experiences has beneficial lasting benefits. Acquiring skills in mindfulness techniques will help young people feel empowered to take control of their well-being. Making self-care practices part of their routine, teens will discover life-hacks that bring relief during even the toughest days. Biegel’s teaching will help students increase self-esteem and live life with renewed hope and enthusiasm.
Biegel is a psychotherapist, researcher, speaker and author who specializes in mindfulness-based work with adolescents. She is founder of Stressed Teens, which offers mindfulness-based stress reduction for teens and author of several books, including “Be Mindful & Stress Less.”
Video of this event HERE
Takeaway
Assistant Principal of Student Services Debra Cartwright co -hosted the event and shared the following takeaway:
"Stress is our body responding to a threat or demand -it provides us with information, something is not the way it should be. Next identify the best way to support yourself, utilize healthy resources (gratitude, letting go, music, spending time with positive people exercise, asking for help, self care-it is not selfish). Mindfulness is noticing your thoughts, and feelings in the present moment without harmful judgement-giving us time to pause-reflect, rather than react. We get to choose where we put our attention. We can train/change our brain by tilting our attention to positive experiences. Where attention goes energy flows. Even in the hardest moments, remember to let your child know they are loved every day, give them the benefit of the doubt. Help them feel safe, secure, connected, and that they are enough. Love is not conditional".
Resources
Stressed Teens web site: HERE
Stressed Teens Toolbox: HERE
U.S. News article with Gina Biegel: Managing High School Stress HERE
Mindful Kids Peace Summit interview with Gina Biegel of Stressed Teens VIDEO HERE
