Mindfully Handling Meltdowns For Parents & Kids - by Tejal V Patel

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Mindfully Handling Meltdowns For Parents & Kids

With Tejal V Patel

Let’s be honest. Every parent loses their temper with their kids. Meltdowns in the form of snapping, shouting, and losing our temper happens when stress overwhelms our body. According to the tried-and-true wisdom of ayurveda - aka the science of the wisdom of life - we all experience three types of stress: mental, emotional, and physical. Based on the stress we are experiencing, our emotions and meltdown experience will be different. The good news is, once you know what kind of stress you are experiencing, it's quite easy to regain balance with the correct breathwork technique. Mindfully Handling Meltdowns For Parents & Kids is a 10-day course that focuses on giving you a practical roadmap to becoming a calmer, more patient parent. It’s an insight-packed and tip-filled course on how to stop parental meltdowns and how to mindfully support your kids through their meltdowns too. Over the 10 days, this course will give you a step-by-step roadmap on how to use powerful, tried, and true ancient yogic and ayurvedic wisdom that is proven by modern-day science to reset your adaptability energy, recharge your resilience reserve, and tap into your "nerves of steel" superpower, so you can handle uncontrollable life situations and unpleasant emotions that shows up in life without snapping, shouting, or melting down. You will learn quickest way to regain mental and emotional balance, not through generic “just take deep breaths” advice you’ve already heard, but through strategic yogic breath work practices that can be easily done by you and your kids. The compassionate approach and tangible tips in this course will make you feel more empowered to stop losing your patience now. I’ll be sharing ancient tools that have been modernized and broken down into easy-to-digest nugget to fit your busy lifestyle. You’ll learn: 1. How to know the difference between your kids' tantrums and meltdowns and the different strategies to support them. 2. The 3 different ayurvedic stress types all humans experience and the appropriate breathwork techniques to reset your nervous system when you are anxious, angry, sad, or disappointed. 3. There will be many mindset shifts, guided relaxation practices, and breathwork practices that you’ll want to refer back to (so have a journal as you take this journey with me). I look forward to sharing the insights I’ve learned about stress and emotional resilience through my experience of being a teacher and student of ayurveda and Kundalini yoga and meditation, as well as calling upon my decade-long experience of teaching children meditation, mindful breathing, and emotional awareness, too. By the end of the course you’ll learn how to stay calm during difficult or a pressure-filled situation. It’s going to help you develop the ability to tolerate change and uncertainty without getting overwhelmed. You will learn how to develop a focused attention span, control mood impulses, have self-control, and create the opportunity to cultivate empathetic and respectful relationships with your children when they have big feelings too.


Meet your Teacher

I'm a former divorce attorney turned mindfulness and meditation expert for parents and kids. I'm the author of the award-winning book "Meditation for Kids", and host of the Time-In Talks podcast. I am a certified ayurveda-yoga specialist (kids and Kundalini yoga), a meditation teacher, and Reiki master. I am a stressed-out parent's secret weapon. I empower parents to feel more present, patient,and peaceful by effortlessly infusing stress relief breathwork, family meditation, and mindful parenting practices into their families life, one day at a time. I don’t share generic Google-able advice. I share real, simple, scientific, and yogic-based step-by-step strategies to stress less, live mindfully, and raise mindful kids.

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10 Days

3.0k students

4.8 stars

17 min / day

Relationships

English


Lesson 1

Why Do We Melt down So Much?

Today is all about laying the foundation for the entire course and exploring the important question: Why do we melt down so much? I’ll be introducing the idea of why stress management keeps us stuck in the pattern of snapping, shame, and guilt, and why energy management is the true antidote for stress. Lastly, you'll learn a quick 60-Second Reset Breathwork Practice to effortlessly infuse through the day to stay calm and grounded.

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Lesson 2

Discovering Your Ayurvedic Stress Type

Today we learn ayurveda’s perspective of stress: the three ayurvedic stress types we all experience, and the right practices to quickly reset our nervous system when stress or friction arises in our body or mind.

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Lesson 3

How To Tame Tantrums & Mindfully Manage Meltdowns

Knowing how to mindfully deal with meltdowns (yours and your kids) starts with knowing the difference between tantrums and meltdowns. Nope, they aren't the same thing! You’ll learn tangible tools and concrete strategies to help you and your child ride through these intense moments when big feelings visit.

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Lesson 4

What Triggers Your Buttons?

Today we are going to learn the three most common external triggers we all experience (kids and adults) that push our anger button to cause a meltdown. Though we can’t control triggers, we’ll learn how to notice the early signs of triggers, so you can better control your emotions and meltdowns don’t happen.

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Lesson 5

Cultivating ‘The Pre-Meltdown Pause’

In today’s lesson, we talk about how to cultivate the heat-of-the-moment "pause" where we will make the split-second decision to either react or respond. I break down “before the meltdown” yogic practices to build our resilience reserve, boost our adaptability energy, and calm our nerves to be prepared when challenging, unexpected, and unpleasant moments and feelings show up.

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Lesson 6

The Secret To Breaking Busy Addiction & Building Effortless Presence)

We are going to talk about how to break our generation's excessive busyness addiction and why it's the number 1 reason for chronic burnout and meltdowns. I'm going to lead you through a calm relaxation meditation to help release any unnoticeable tension from your body. You can do this in just 30 seconds throughout your day to help your body and mind feel calm and relaxed.

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Lesson 7

Shifting Your Mood On Command

In this lesson we explore how our breath is the remote control for our brain. Did you know what nostril we breathe from that can shift our mood instantly? We’ll learn three simple exercises to infuse in the morning and evening, or anytime of day to boost our energy, settle our energy or stop a freakout moment before it arises.

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Lesson 8

Chakra Balancing For Chronic Stress

Today we discuss how to balance the 4 most important chakras that are linked to chronic stress. Some stresses are acute and temporary while others are more chronic like illness, injury, and stress due to major life changes. When faced with prolonged stress, you'll learn how to balance and clear our chakra blocks, so energy can flow more smoothly and we can handle our stress with more grit, resilience, and grace.

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Lesson 9

Recovering From Guilt & Shame After A Parent Meltdown

So you had a meltdown, now what? We are all human. The goal of this course isn't to never have a meltdown again, but to lessen its frequency. We will talk about how to break the guilt and shame cycle, the 5 steps to give a genuine and heart-felt apology, and ways to build a growth mindset and self-compassion post-meltdown.

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Lesson 10

Putting It All Together

Yes, you did it! This is the most important day where we consolidate all that tips you’ve learned in the last 9 sessions and make a simple daily roadmap moving forward. Instead of seeing the tools in this course as separate little pieces, we explore how everything is connected and how to create a sustainable stress-relief practice to keep meltdowns to a minimum. Get ready to confidently move forward on the path to being the most present, patient, and peaceful parent you can be.

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Recent Reviews

Heidi

April 12, 2023

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I found an app that chimes every hour on the hour. Whenever I hear it I stop and check in. Today I will add a reset breath based on what I notice. That is what will be easiest for me to begin today. However tomorrow I will begin doing some mirror work in order to break my shame and guilt cycle and build my self-worth, self-compassion and forgiving myself. I have much to practice from all I've learned but I feel more confident having a bit of a road map, as I was completely lost before listening to this course. I am so incredibly grateful for the time and resources you put into helping me and everyone else who has been struggling with parenting. Namaste 🙏

Bre

February 18, 2023

Great course fill of wonderful information and helpful tips. A course that I’ll be listening to again for sure. Thank you for providing and sharing your knowledge and skills with us.

Naomi

August 9, 2022

Brilliant course, I will definatly be applying everything I have learnt on this course to my everyday life and will be teach my child these strategies. Thank you 😊

Roberta

January 27, 2022

Packed with so much to process I need to keep listening . I wish it was a little slower guess I really need to learn this work for the sake of my children 🙏❤️

Dawn

January 5, 2022

Really insightful. I like how the focus is on you as a parent and your behaviour. This self improvement not only helps dealing with own “meltdowns” but serves as an example for kids. Enjoyed the course and can take plenty away. Thank you 😊

Michella

December 28, 2021

Extremely helpful!

Monique

May 27, 2021

Thank you 🙏🏼

Susan

May 26, 2021

This is one of the best courses I have taken. The benefit for adults with or without children is tremendous since as was mentioned if you don’t learn as a child.

KatieG

May 2, 2021

A great course full of practical tools and tips for daily use as well as a sound foundation to understand and embrace ourselves with love and compassion. I’m an almost 65 year old grandmother and professionally am a psychiatrist who loves Insight Timer courses, so I’ve had the opportunity to build up a lot of knowledge and skill already in my life. But I know that revisiting and reviewing and getting fresh perspectives on material deepens my practice and builds even greater compassion and understanding for myself and others, so I can say this course could be for anyone! Thank you 🙏🏼!

J

April 29, 2021

Amazing!! Best class I’ve taken on InsightTimer! The tips were simple, easy to remember in the moment. I feel like everyone should learn these and practice these. The world would be a more loving and resilient space. This was golden! What a beautiful gift the instructor shared.

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