Coping Kit For Everyday Life

This season we continue to focus on building up your coping kit when experiencing change and seeking support during times of transition. Special Guest Toni Millar will join Genevieve and Rechelle sharing what has helped her during times of change. Join us for a fireside chat: Coping with Change. Reflection/Journal: Connect with someone from your support team this week. Share what has been a gift o...

Emotional Freedom Tapping ( EFT) is a tool in our coping kit that we can always have with us. Tapping on your body energy meridian points can be a way to relieve stress. Today we will learn how this new technique is only a fingertip away. Get ready to tap that stress away. Reflection/journal: New to tapping learn the step by watching YouTube video or try Tapping Solutions app Resources: https://ww...

Journaling can be a great way to release your stress and express yourself. This week we will look at how writing can be a source of support for self-expression and creativity. Get your pen and paper or your computer or phone and write all about it. Reflection/Journal Pick a consistent time of day to write in your journal. Start with a journal prompt. Do just five minutes. Resources https://positiv...

Art helps us better understand ourselves, our community and the world around us. It offers an outlet for expression while creating space for other ways of being. Troy shares with us how she used art in her practice as a CCLS but also how art has supported her through changes in her personal and professional life. Reflection/Journal Create your own art piece. Create a collage/painting/drawing aroun...

Friends are really important. As children friendships blossomed easily but as adults, it's harder to make and keep friends. In this episode, we talk about the challenges of making friends as adults. We discuss strategies for a positive mindset, coping for managing discomfort, and actions to get started. Reflection/Journal: Ask someone out for lunch, go to an activity, reach out to someone you...

Exercise and movement can clear our heads, recharge our bodies and spark creativity. In this episode, we talk about how we both have been in and out of exercise, how we try to keep it fresh, and how it helps us stay connected to our bodies, minds, and spirit! Reflection/Journal Start small: short exercises: walk around when on the phone, quick walks around the block, 10 minutes stretching etc.. Pl...

Bringing play into your life as an adult. What fun things you did as a kid. Did you pretend to go on adventures, play in the mud, or endless games of Uno? In this episode, you will learn how to add play to your coping kit. Reflection Journal/ Exercises: - Create you own playlist of things you enjoyed as a child? - Pick a day and time you will take a play breath this week Resources: https://www.nyt...

Rechelle has made a BIG change in her life prompting us to talk about coping with change. Whether it is big or small, change is difficult. Join us this season as we explore unique ways to manage our own well-being and apply a child life perspective to changes in our lives.

We want to end season 1 of Coping Kit for Everyday Life on a high note! In this podcast, we l discuss the positive emotion of joy. How can we be mindful of the moments of joy we experience each day and how to create more joy in our lives? Reflection/Journal  This week will do some self-discovery of what brings you joy by journaling what joy means to you.  Writing down moments you feel jo...

In this episode, Reiki Energy Rechelle and Genevieve talk about how they were introduced to Reiki. Reiki is hands-on healing energy used to increase wellness and decrease stress. Both Rechelle and Genevieve are trained in reiki and share their stories of using it in the hospital to support patient care and in their personal lives to balance themselves and support loved ones. Reflection/Journal&nbs...

Child life specialists often connect children and families to other patients who have similar experiences and diagnoses, tapping into a type of support that can only be found in those who have traveled a similar journey. Listen to how Rechelle and Genevieve used this type of mentorship in their child life practice and how they seek mentorship in their own lives as a tool for coping in both persona...

In this episode, Rechelle and Genevieve talk with hospital chaplain Jennifer Kent. She helps us think about how our faith guides our practice while also exploring the integration of faith in our personal and professional lives. Reflection/journal: How does your faith, spirituality support you in challenges? Do you have spiritual practice? How can you develop one to support yourself? Resources: &nb...

There is nothing funny about life-threatening illness or chronic disease… Or is there? In this episode, Rechelle and Genevieve talk about the power of humor and how to use this as a tool for supporting children and families as well as ourselves. Reflection/Takeaway:  Reflect on what makes you laugh?  When was the last time you laughed out loud? How can you bring more laughter into your l...

Rechelle and Genevieve talk with special guest Toni Crowell-Petrungaro child life leader, previous co-worker and friend. Together they share how friendships are a virtual source of support and a necessary tool to have in your coping kit. Reflection / Journal Exercises Evaluate your source of support this week  Make a new friend this week  Resources: Friendships Enrich your Life and Impro...

Did you create a New Year’s Resolution? Have you been able to keep it or are you berating yourself about it? Rechelle and Genevieve talk about ways to emphasize process over product and examine the use of affirmations and intentions in child life work with children and families as well as in their own lives as a tool for self care, motivation, and mindfulness. Reflection/Journal Prompts to conside...

In this episode Rechelle and Genevieve talk how they both coped with covid professionally and personally. They talk about what they have learned from the experiences of the past year.  Reflection/Journal Exercises:  Create a list of what you have control over and what you don’t have control over with your experience since covid  Resources:  Resources from ACLP In Action - Genev...

This week Rechelle and Genevieve will be talking about gratitude. They will share how gratitude practices can impact how we see ourselves and experience the world around us. Reflection/journal exercise: Start your own gratitude practice Ex: Journaling daily 5 things you are grateful for. Resources Neuroscience Reveals: Gratitude Literally Rewires Your Brain to be Happier The Neuroscience of Gratit...

In their first episode of Coping Kit for Everyday Life Rechelle and Genevieve share their personal journey of becoming a certified child life specialist. We hope our podcast supports others in discovering tools to create their own coping kit for everyday life. Reflection/journal exercise: Consider your own journey towards becoming a CCLS. How has that shaped your practice? Resources Steps for beco...