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Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm

AMANDA SEYDERHELM

38 episodes

7 months ago

"If you can't say it, sing it" is not only Sophie Garner's mantra, it's the title of her new book, a journal going deeper into supporting children in navigating their emotions through creative expression. Having started her professional career with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain (1991-1992 Maggie May and Amphibias Spangulatos), a determination to succeed and share her passions emerged, leading Sophie to become the first artist to play the London O2 Arena, setting a standard to be...

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"If you can't say it, sing it" is not only Sophie Garner's mantra, it's the title of her new book, a journal going deeper into supporting children in navigating their emotions through creative expression. Having started her professional career with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain (1991-1992 Maggie May and Amphibias Spangulatos), a determination to succeed and share her passions emerged, leading Sophie to become the first artist to play the London O2 Arena, setting a standard to be...

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Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm

S2 #13 If you can't say it, sing it with Sophie Garner

"If you can't say it, sing it" is not only Sophie Garner's mantra, it's the title of her new book, a journal going deeper into supporting children in navigating their emotions through creative expression. Having started her professional career with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain (1991-1992 Maggie May and Amphibias Spangulatos), a determination to succeed and share her passions emerged, leading Sophie to become the first artist to play the London O2 Arena, setting a standard to be...

3 years ago

38 minutes

Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm

S2 #11 Is there such a thing as "Good Grief" following a bereavement with Jane Harris

Can there be anything called ‘good’ grief especially when it follows from the death of a child? Surely grief is that most abject of conditions in which you are thrown into an endless darkness, where despair overcomes hope, and longing for the loved one lost is a pain beyond endurance? How can this be good? Jane Harris and Jimmy Edmonds have created THE GOOD GRIEF PROJECT in order to share their experience of grief and to help others to find an active and creative response to the expression ...

3 years ago

50 minutes

Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm

S2 #12 Helping children to engage with their grief in order to heal with Justin Bowen

After his wife died in 2016, Justin Bowen wanted to create a resource for Schools based on the caring support his young children received from their local School in Worcestershire. Be The Rainbow is that resource. His young daughter painted the rainbow on the book's front cover during lockdown, which Justin says gave both his children the chance to play at home - water fights in the garden, climbing trees - and not be defined by their grief. The rainbow represents the hope after the storm o...

3 years ago

36 minutes

Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm

S2 #10 How to talk to a child about bereavement with Ann Chalmers, Chief Executive, Child Bereavement UK

Anyone who has experienced the loss of a loved one will know that you never stop grieving for those you have loved, and what an important journey it is to find a way to live with that loss. Child Bereavement UK has been helping families facing that journey since 1994 and that is why I'm delighted to be in conversation with Ann Chalmers, the Chief Executive of the charity. If you have been concerned about how to talk to bereaved children, and what questions to ask, this conversation will be a ...

3 years ago

47 minutes

Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm

S2 #09 What can parents do 'in the meantime' while they wait for a professional assessment with Safeguarding expert Kayla Shepherd

Waiting can be stressful. While the waiting lists for child mental health assessments get longer, our anxiety ramps up. Parents and children wait in limbo. Feeling helpless. Do professionals hold all the answers? What can we do ‘in the meantime’ period while we wait for a professional assessment? According to Safeguarding expert Kayla Shepherd, staying in this anxious state can disempower us, and keep us focused on our losses. The key to coping with our anxiety while we wait, is to understand...

3 years ago

34 minutes

Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm

S2 #08 What can nature teach us about coping with anxiety with Play and LandPlay Therapist Kate Macairt

The world is in crisis, from climate change, the Pandemic and now the Russian war in Ukraine. We are feeling the impact of this collective trauma in our bodies, and seeing anxiety levels rise higher than ever. Our sense of belonging is being questioned at all personal and public levels, and our feeling of being disconnected from ourselves and the Earth continues as technology and algorithms seem to be taking over our life choices. It's time to put our wellies on and step outside into the mud ...

3 years ago

46 minutes

Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm

S2 #07 Finding Hope after Parental Loss with Phoebe and Ian Gilbert

A child loses a parent every twenty-two minutes in the UK. Childhood bereavement brings with it a whole series of challenges for the children involved - challenges they will deal with all their lives. What to say to a bereaved child stumps many teachers. They are afraid of saying the wrong thing, and tend to say nothing. Phoebe Gilbert was 9 when her Mum died. She is now 23, a University graduate starting her first job at www.nudgeeducation.co.uk which offers bespoke intervention for anyone, ...

3 years ago

36 minutes

Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm

S2 #06 Managing your wellbeing through the pandemic with Dr Tina Rae

The Covid Pandemic has been a collective trauma. A crash course in learning how to cope with uncertainty and change. If we were anxious pre-Covid, this suddenly escalated for children and families to a frightening level and threatened all aspects of our wellbeing. Were Mummy or Daddy going to die and leave me alone? We were also worried about our health. We didn't have the vaccines. We didn't understand how this was going to work. We didn't understand the impact emotionally, the fear of this ...

3 years ago

41 minutes

Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm

S2 #05 How music therapy can support children through bereavement with Music Therapist, Marion Barton

When a child is struggling to express their feelings verbally, music therapy can be a suitable medium through which they can 'drum out' their feelings. Listening to and creating music is a powerful connector to our feelings and emotions, and helps us to bypass our internal critic which can often override these. In these musical moments, real clarity can be gained about our lives as the child, and the child inside us comes out to play. Music Therapy is an established psychological clinical int...

3 years ago

46 minutes

Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm

S2 #04 Exploring emotions through game play with Arts Psychotherapist, Karen Stallard

The pandemic has taught us the true importance of emotional connections. While we protect our bodies from infection, emotional bonds protect our minds from poor mental health and the disconnection that comes with isolation. Within the Western culture, we are very good at saying “I think”, but not so good at saying “I feel”. We are also not very good at listening to someone talk about distressing feelings. Rather than empathising we may try and solve the problem to remove the feeling as ...

3 years ago

36 minutes

Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm

S2 #03 Practical tips for helping a child through divorce with The Parenting Coach, Sue Atkins

What happens when the dream of marriage dies, and the reality of divorce sinks in? Where does all the love and pain go, and how do families begin to process the grief of this loss and change? How do they navigate not only new custody arrangements for their children, but also their divorced relationship? We all remember the divorce movie, Kramer vs. Kramer, which highlighted what happens when a couple allows anger and hurt to drive their conversations. The only good thing that came out of this...

3 years ago

31 minutes

Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm

S2 #02 The Wellbeing Curriculum with Andrew Cowley

Andrew Cowley, author of The Wellbeing Toolkit and co-founder of Healthy Toolkit (@HealthyToolkit), talks about his new book, The Wellbeing Curriculum - the ultimate guide to help primary schools develop a practical, principled and values-driven wellbeing curriculum for their pupils. Schools are responsible for giving children the tools and emotional resilience to cope with the changes and challenges they will face in the future. Developing an explicit wellbeing curriculum for primary-...

4 years ago

44 minutes

Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm

S2 #01 The secrets of how Super parenting can help overcome trauma-triggered behaviour with clinical psychologist and author Dr Amber Elliott

Dr Amber Elliott, Clinical Psychologist and author explains why children who have experienced early trauma need something different - therapeutic parenting - a kind of everyday 'superparenting' which champions empathy over punishment. Trying to parent children who have trauma-triggered behaviours is tough, and none of us are perfect. Taking this as a starting point, Dr Elliott provides us with a ten-step process to transform your parenting. From developing self-acceptance and ideas for buildi...

4 years ago

51 minutes

Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm

#26 How nutrition can affect a child's mood, with author and nutrition consultant Jayne Avery

Today’s episode looks at the connection between mood and food in children through the lens of storytelling. My guest is a teacher and nutritional consultant Jayne Avery, author of The Secret of the Golden Cauldron. Talking about food, the rights and wrongs, can be an emotive topic for parents. While some choose to be organic, vegan and plant-based, others might not be in a position to make that choice. Some might be in a position to, and still decide, for whatever reason, not to. But, what is...

4 years ago

27 minutes

Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm

#25 Why creative writing helps children build empathy with Fiona Clark

Teacher and author Fiona Clark's new book A Practical Guide to Creative Writing in Schools: Seven Creative Writing Projects for ages 8-14 is not only well timed, it is also rooted in psychobiology. We talk about the research of Dr Daisy Fancourt, Associate Professor of Psychobiology & Epidemiology at UCL which shows that the cognitive strategies the brain uses to regulate our emotions are when we are taking part in creative activities. Fiona's creative writing programmes in schools increa...

4 years ago

42 minutes

Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm

#24 My Dad's death didn't break me with children's author Mark Lemon

When Mark Lemon was 12, his father was killed. Even at such a young age, he knew he had to make peace with himself in order to have a future. But how to do that at such a tender age, before puberty, and without a male role model? He talks about a special teacher, and the synchronicity of finding people who became 'teachers', guiding him through some very dark and angry times. But it was the milestone of becoming a Father himself that reconnected Mark to a deep sense of love that he traces bac...

4 years ago

47 minutes

Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm

Childhood bereavement - how journalist Flora Baker learned to grieve the loss of her parents

Flora Baker was only twenty when her mum died suddenly of cancer. Her coping strategy was simple: ignore the magnitude of her loss. But when her dad became terminally ill nine years later, Flora was forced to confront the reality of her grief. She had to accept that her life had changed forever. We talk about Flora’s book, The Adult Orphan Club, in which she draws on a decade of experience with grief and parent loss to explore all the chaotic ways that grief affects us, and how we can learn t...

4 years ago

52 minutes

Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm

#21 A conversation about loneliness amid loss with Alex Smith, founder and CEO of The Cares Family

Have you felt lonely during 2020, or even before that? I know I have. While loneliness can subjectively come and go like sadness and happiness, there are people who live with loneliness much more chronically, and for whom it's a form of marginalization. Over the last year, we have seen more people withdraw from wider society, and loneliness has become a personal crisis for people who experience it. My podcast guest this week is Alex Smith, founder and CEO of The Cares Family, a group of chari...

4 years ago

1 hour 2 minutes

Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm

#20 Healing from grief and loss with integrative GP Dr Rosy Daniel

After a year of loss and isolation, we need tools to reintegrate. This podcast interview with integrative GP Dr Rosy Daniel looks at grief through a holistic, and regenerative lens. Actively taking a role in the changes loss brings moves us away from being a passive bystander. Accepting that no aspect of our life is unaffected by the loss frees us to discover new inner and outer resources. Attending to mind, body and spirit reconnects our fragmented selves, and heart. Start by asking yourself...

4 years ago

39 minutes

Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm

#19 Writing your way through grief with trauma therapist Meghan Riordan Jarvis

Grief is something I’ve been growing the muscles to carry. In some ways it’s a back alley experience. We try to keep the front of house shiny and bright. Fresh flowers in a vase. We grievers will use all the words we have, and they all mean the same thing: I am not who I once was. Today is my forty-seventh birthday. My parents are dead. It’s a pandemic. I don’t leave the house much. I write, teach, talk, about grief all day long. My grief is a verb. A permanent low his...

4 years ago

1 hour 10 minutes