Feeling Overwhelmed with the New School Year? Tools for Parents.

Feeling the intensity of the start of the new school year? Finding yourself experiencing increased time pressures, a heavier mental load, and overwhelm with getting the kids out the door in time in the morning?

Starting a new school year can bring changes to the routine, scheduling pressures, and increased mental load juggling more activities and appointments. Finding ways to restore your nervous system after moments of stress and overwhelm can help restore your calm, and prevent you from engaging in passing along this stress to your kids and others in your life. In this article I include two considerations:

1. Pacing Yourself: This can be hard when you are rushing out the door, understandably! Pacing ourselves gives us space to not always be going at full speed. Pacing allows us to find a balancing energy to “the rush”. You can consider the following invitation to reflect upon or journal about "What would your day look like with a dose of balance?" and/or “Where can you find balance in your day that offsets the intense rush of other times?”
2. Mini-Nervous System Breaks: When you take small chunks of time to reset your nervous system throughout the day you are better able to keep your cool. And show up as the version of your best self and the parent you want to be for your kids! And when you take care of your nervous system, your children directly benefit as this helps their nervous system to be more regulated too. If you are looking for mini-nervous system reset tools check out “Therapist in Your Pocket” tools to use anytime and anywhere when they need them.

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