Updates from the School Counselor
Anxiety
Hey Sigmund
Over the years I've learned that when I'm feeling anxious, anger is the emotion that seems to come forth. I like anger really - it's a powerful emotion and it drives behavior like no other. But when I recently read an article about the way children experience anxiety it made me stop and consider the way I think about children...and how the discomfort they are feeling can cause them to question their sense of reality. As an adult I'm pretty good at modulating my emotions and most of the time I am able to access the part of my brain that allows me to think about the situation a bit more rationally and it limits my angry outbursts. But children do not yet have the years of experience that adults have and they are not as skilled at modulating their inner world. I thought you might enjoy reading the same article: Anxiety in Children: A Metaphor to Put You In Their Shoes (And Right Beside Them). The article, published at heysigmund.com, also provides a few suggestions for supporting students as they build the reservoir of experiences needed to learn how to regulate behavior.