Did you know child emotions and child emotional health is an important part of their overall health? When you are stressed, anxious, or bothered, your body can become affected. People that are emotionally healthy have control of their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. They are able to face changes in life and maintain a positive outlook when encountering problems.
A “healthy lifestyle” does not just mean a balanced diet. The importance of regular physical activity, sleep routines, and working on mental health are all vital.
It is important children and teens learn how to express emotions. This correlates with their social emotional wellbeing. How a child feels determines if they will be able to relate to other children as children build relationships during their youth. It is the parent or guardian’s responsibility to understand the emotional needs of a child and the child’s mental state. When we spend quality time with family, we learn more about our children and how to connect with them, creating a strong emotional unit that will build a child’s self-esteem.
Ultimately, an individual with higher self-esteem is more likely to practice physical activity and sports. This leads them to a better headspace, which greatly contributes to a healthy sleep cycle and normal eating habits. Additionally, what we eat can influence our emotions, our daily physical activity, and our quality of sleep- which form a foundation that maintains our emotional well-being.
If you got a message growing up that strong emotions were bad or a sign of weakness? Or that having painful emotions meant you weren’t focusing enough on your blessings or that you were being self-indulgent? Perhaps you learned to put on a mask and deny what’s really going on inside, or you learned to cope by numbing, zoning out, or engaging in addictive behaviors. Not dealing with emotions doesn’t make them go away. It just ensures they’re going to come out sideways or get directed inwardly. Emotional healing can mean freedom.
Strong emotions can end up interfering with our ability to see ourselves and our situations clearly and can cause problems in our relationships. What happens on the inside when we don’t engage in a process of emotional healing? This can look like this:
Feelings of helplessness or powerlessness
Feelings of bitterness and anger
Strong reactions to minor incidents
Being flooded with emotions out of the blue
Negative views of yourself
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Best Regards,
Dr. Nikki LeToya White
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About The Author:
Dr. Nikki LeToya White MSEd-TL, Ph.D. RHN is the founder, director and a full time board certified trauma-informed nutritionist, folk herbalist, and wellness consultant at Spiced Life Conversation Art Wellness Studio and Botanica. She created Spiced Life Conversation, LLC
Art Wellness Studio and Botanica to provide the Metro Atlanta area with a counseling and coaching services where clients are carefully matched with the right program for healing abandonment and childhood emotional neglect trauma that cause codependency, emotional eating, financial stress, and imposter syndrome as it relates to fear of success and being abandon. We help you begin your emotional healing journey with ease. Recently, we have expanded to include online membership site so we now provide support to people living all over the world. All of our recovery coaches provide at least one evidence based treatment to assist in your recovery. Dr. White is a big proponent of self care and helping people live a fulfilling life! She has been in full remission with both codependency and emotional binge eating disorder since 2016. In live a life in recovery from sugar addiction. Loving her low sugar balance lifestyle.