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The Emotional Toolkit Monthly
Practical Strategies to Boost Your Happiness, Health & Longevity
September 2007
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In This Issue:
-- Helping Kids with Their Feelings
-- Tip of the Month
-- Learn the Secrets to a Happier Life!
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Helping Kids with Their Feelings
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When you send your
kids
back to school this year, they'll likely have sharpened
pencils and a new lunchbox. Why not give them an
emotional toolkit too?
Kids nowadays have lots of demands on them-the
pressure to acheive, fit in socially and just plain grow
up! What can today's parents do to help their children
thrive emotionally?
One way is to give them
the skills they need to manage their feelings. Few
schools have the time or finances to offer an
emotional education during the school day, but you
can.
Here's three simple strategies that can
help your kids cope a little better with life's ups and
downs.
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Tip of the Month
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Teach Your Kids to Relax: Children have a
lot on their plate between school, homework and
social activities. All this busyness can lead to anxiety
and later on, adults who don't know how to unwind.
Teach your kids that it's okay to have unproductive
time during their day. Give them unstructured
downtime to use any way they want.
Feelings Are Okay: If you want your kids to
be comfortable with feelings as adults, help them to
recognize their emotions by putting labels on them. If
your child is worried, instead of saying, "It'll be fine," try
this: "I can see you're really worried."
Be A Good Role Model: This doesn't
mean you have to be perfect-in fact, just the
opposite. Show your children that it's okay to fail by
using yourself as a model. For example, if you're
taking your own bad mood out on your child, you might
say: "I'm snapping at you because I had a tough day,
and that's not fair. I'm sorry." It's not the mistakes
they'll remember; it's the way you fix them.
Free Teleclass
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"Why Happiness Matters": A Free One-Hour
Teleclass
Tuesday, September 11, 2007, 8pm ET/5pm
PT
In this free one-hour
teleclass, Dr. Mininni shares key points from her work
and sheds new light on the connection between
happiness and health, including science showing
people who master their feelings can slow or reverse
their physical age up to 16 years. She'll also give you
a primer on 3 of the 7 tools from The Emotional
Toolkit. You'll leave this call knowing how to use these
tools in your own life.
According to Dr.
Mininni, "We have more control over our happiness
and health than we ever dreamed possible. My goal is
to teach people how to access that
power."
To register for this free call-
sponsored by the wonderful folks at the International
Coach Federation of Los Angeles- click here.
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Learn the Secrets to a Happier Life!
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The Emotional Toolkit One-Day Woman's
Workshop
Dr. Mininni has so much
to teach you about living your happiest life. Find out
why women are buzzing about the new techniques
they've learned to improve their relationships, health
and feelings of success. Everything Dr. Mininni
teaches is based on science and proven to create a
positive change. Next workshops: September 29,
2007 and October 27, 2007 in Los Angeles. See details and Early-Bird Discounts.
In the Media
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Barry Kibrick Interviews Dr. Mininni
"Between the Lines" on KRCB Public Television
Channel 22, San Francisco
Sunday, September 2 at 10:30am PT
If you live in Northern
California, be sure to catch the amazing Barry
Kibrick's interview with Dr. Mininni as they talk about
The Emotional Toolkit. The show also airs On
Demand at www.krcb.org.
To see a clip from the show, click here.
About Dr. Darlene
Mininni
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Dr. Darlene Mininni is the author of The Emotional
Toolkit and creator of UCLA's acclaimed
emotional education course. She's also the
Emotional Health Expert on the live show "Women's
Night Out." She has a PhD in Clinical Psychology and
a Masters degree in Public Health. Through her
seminars and one-day workshops, Dr. Mininni
teaches people of all ages practical strategies to
boost their happiness, health and longevity.
Woman's World Magazine describes her
emotional toolkit as "Cutting-edge advice...that really
works." She's appeared on CNN, NPR and PBS and
been quoted in SELF, COSMO,
Woman's Day, Marie Claire, Ladies
Home Journal and Prevention.
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Darlene Mininni, Ph.D., M.P.H.
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