Let's Continue The Conversation - #SameHere Mental Health Session 4

Our fourth Mental Health session is deeply relevant and eye-opening. Erica Cuni brought us through some incredibly enlightening and helpful information to support our mental health. We learned how acute stress and chronic stress affect the body, the connection between mind and HRV (Heart Rate Variable), the reaction of fight or flight, and how to respond to those stresses rather than react. Western medicine is slowly recognizing what those in Eastern medicine practices have been successfully utilizing for years; that energy flows fluidly throughout the body, and by tapping into those meridian points we can release our stress and return to a more harmonized mind/body relationship.

Most importantly, we learned vital tools that adults and children can utilize in order to relieve their stress. 'Havening' is a simple yet effective strategy that is quite easy for children to use, as well as EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), another source of creating and maintaining a healthy flow of energy. Erica showed us how to use these techniques, how to make them fun for children, and how parents and their kids can practice them together. What a wonderful bonding opportunity this can be for parents and their children - having fun and getting healthier at the same time.

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