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Podcast 486: 4 Tips to Raise Empathic Children

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

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How to Create a Safe Space for Mental Work

Play a parent and granny an uncle an aunt to sit down with your child. Show them empathy maybe not even the language yet just sit down next to them look at them let your whole mind brain and body fall loving to them. Create that safe space where they can I'm safe I can unwind there's no judgment and I can start to talk. There's been studies done in Zimbabwe which is the country where i was born. A very successful mental health approach that wasn't intentionally a mental health approach it was just a granny sitting on a bench. It was so successful that Harvard and King's university did a combined research study showing that this is one of the most effective and inexpensive

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