Melissa Mose is a board certified therapist with over 20 years of experience. Melissa and Vinnie discuss children’s mental health, the challenges of raising children, what works and what does not. They also discuss the relationship between exercise, diet and mental health.
Here are some of the highlights…
Mental Health and Children
- Balancing limits and being allowed to express feelings
- Need to show up and do something even if they don’t feel like it
- Rescuing children and the damage it does
- Only praising children becomes meaningless
- Parents job is to let them learn about frustration and delayed gratification
Sports Through A Mental Health Lens
- Children aren’t taught to win anymore
- Too much compassion can weaken their spirit
- They need to fail to learn what they are good at
- Feels crummy to sit on the bench but they need to learn they are not good at everything
- Avoids real feelings
Exercise and Depression
- Exercise is very effective in boosting mood and changing the brain
- Howie Mandel says he works out for his body but he runs for his brain
- Anything good for the heart is good for the brain
- Brain can rebuild itself – neurogenesis
Food and Mental Health
- Foods can help people with depression
- Dopamine enhancing foods
- Brain/Body connection
- The effects of sugar on mood
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