The Simply Kids Wellness Podcast Roxanne Bates

Meditation and mindfulness are tools for calming and regulating emotions that help support our children’s mental health and wellbeing. We are becoming increasingly aware that teaching our children preventative proactive health skills can help prepare them for life’s stresses and challenges, and build a more resilient future.


Kasey Hughes is the founder of Mayhem to Mindfulness, and she supports children as a mindfulness facilitator and certified health and wellness coach. Kasey is a mother to 3 boys and they have inspired her to help other kids. She is extremely passionate about the emotional and mental wellbeing of our children and parents and offers child-specific wellness programs to teach kids how to use mindfulness and meditation skills to improve their emotional intelligence.


Children are taught how to fill their cups and give them lifelong skills in managing worries and concerns and how they can tap into sensations of feelings in their bodies to become aware of what they are experiencing. They learn how to accept all different feelings, even the big and uncomfortable emotions to bring stress levels down to be able to think well, manage the effects of emotions, bounce back from setbacks, sleep better and build overall resilience. Emotional intelligence and resilience are superpowers for kids that give them the best chance of having positive mental health outcomes as they grow.


Kasey believes that it’s more important than ever to take steps to improve your children’s mental health. Simple tools like mindful belly breathing through 3 deep breaths can be used at any time to help calm worries or anxiety. Meditation and Mindfulness can calm the brain and build up the prefrontal cortex in children’s brains to become resilient in many different situations. Research shows that this can reduce their potential for anxiety, depression, and other mental health problems.


Find out more at www.mayhemtomindful.com.au


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Do you want to shout less and connect more with your teens and tweens? Do you want to hear how you can have a healthy and harmonious relationship with your teens and tweens whilst parenting from a place aligned with your values? Then listen to this episode with Wendy Bennett who is a mentor for teens, tweens, and their parents and offers online support, courses, and resources to navigate these often challenging years.
Wendy originally created the online Amaze In Mind App to help teenagers. It offers content that can teach them skills to grow, express themselves and feel connected during their tween and teen years. It allows them to get to know themselves better and develop a secure sense of self. Wendy believes that also teaching parents the skills and understanding of the milestones in teenage years can create awareness and empathy for parents to bond and deepen their relationships.
 Wendy has developed an online course called the Chaos to Calm Parenting course as well as an online community of support, to share her expertise and experiences as a counsellor and mother. The course can help parents relate to their kids and become aware of what’s driving their interactions and why things might not be going as they wish. Wendy has developed 6 parenting principles that she uses when working with parents and the 4-week program is an introduction to these principles as well as helping parents achieve some quick wins in shouting less and connecting more with their kids.
 
Find out more at https://mailchi.mp/ddb8a44376c8/chaos-to-calm-parenting-course 
 
Website - http://amazeinmind.org.au/parent-support/
 
Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/425903905289783

Inspired Yoga and Calm Fairies empowers kids to feel safe and calm by teaching them the calming tools of Yoga, particularly in Children's hospital wards. Stacey Louise is the founder and lead trainer at Inspired Kids Yoga and Calm Fairies and has a creative flair and natural gift for working with children. Stacey loves sharing her knowledge and tools in playful and easy-to-understand ways, with kids and adults.

Stacey draws on her diverse career experiences in working with children to help kids from two years of age to teenage years reduce anxiety and experience relaxation. She adapts her style and toolkit to help all age brackets and different ailments.

Stacey started practicing yoga in 2000 to help befriend anxiety and cope with a myriad of medical conditions. This experience has turned into Stacey's legacy, with the creation of Calm Fairies- where she visits kids in hospital, dressed as a fairy, and teaches them the calm tools of yoga. 
Calm Fairies offers online courses for parents and anyone working with children empowers them to teach kids how to self-regulate their emotions through many tools such as breathing exercises, adapting to different environments, and learning how to release tension in a holistic way - physically, mentally, and emotionally. Stacey has a mission to work towards getting a Calm Fairy trained up for every children’s hospital ward in Australia.

Find out more at www.inspiredkidsyoga.com.au
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It’s Clancy, Yo! Is a natural skincare range that was created for tweens and teens that advocates the benefits of starting their skincare journey sooner rather than later, as well as spread positive messaging of empowerment and security. The products were created for both boys and girls during their tween and teen years that could support their delicate and sensitive skin changes and needs.


It’s Clancy, Yo! makes skincare fun with its bright packaging, fun designs, and eco-friendly themes. Given the ages of their customers and the condition of their skin, they have made a stand to avoid nasty ingredients such as parabens⁠, artificial and synthetic ingredients, and hormone disruptors⁠! All of the ingredients included in their products are derived from nature to support and not strip young and delicate skin types!⁠


It’s Clancy, Yo! is 100% Aussie made and owned. They have trialled and tested the range extensively on a range of Aussie kids (including their own!). It’s encouraging kids to use natural products and become aware of the importance of choosing healthy choices for their skin.⁠ It’s Nature for the win!


Find out more at https://itsclancyyo.com.au/
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Kids are inspiring, resilient, accepting, determined, funny human beings and their personalities and uniqueness should be celebrated! Gorgeous Grubs does this in a fun way with tie-dyed clothing! 
Meegan Conwell is the creator and owner of Gorgeous Grubs, a clothing label designed to celebrate our kids and their stories. Meegan is a mum to three gorgeous kids, Jimmy, and twins Bianca and Zoey and they all inspired her to take up tie-dyeing as a way of capturing their crazy personalities.
Meegan is also a primary school teacher and celebrates all kids and their amazing stories through her bright colourful shirts to raise awareness and learn from their resilience, determination, and playful attitudes. From twinhood to the TSC journey, to CHD awareness, to rainbow families empowerment. There are an infinite number of stories to be shared and Gorgeous Grubs celebrates this through each piece of colourful clothing that has been hand-made with love. 
Find out more at https://www.gorgeousgrubs.com.au/
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In this episode, we chat with Osteopath and Lactation consultant Dr Emily Jones, who offers osteopathic care and lactation support to assist families with growth, development, breast, and bottle feeding issues. 

The combination of Osteopathy and Lactation Consultations addresses movement, symmetry, and feeding patterns which are all interrelated in the wellbeing of babies and young children.
 Emily was inspired to dedicate her support to babies and children through stages of growth and development after her own experiences as a mother with birth and breastfeeding challenges. She has a passion for working with kids from birth and their families to ensure they get a good start to life with optimum feed, play, and sleep functions so they can reach their optimal health.
Emily discusses the importance of supporting infant and childhood growth and development for future healthy adults with Osteopathy and optimal lactation support.
 Find out more at https://www.alignandnurture.com.au/
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