Can my child or teen use mindfulness to deal with low self-esteem?
Children and teens can harbor negative thoughts about themselves that lead to low self-esteem. In this HealthMakers video, psychotherapist Gina Biegel talks about how kids can use mindfulness to increase their self-confidence.
Transcript
NARRATOR: When you look at mindfulness, it gives you that moment, that pause of noticing where your mind goes. So maybe you can kind of break some of that cycle
of automatically judging. [MUSIC PLAYING]
Children and teens aren't necessarily very kind to themselves, particularly teens. I think children are still at a level
where they aren't as judgmental of themselves and of their experiences. And I think as you get a little bit older,
everything becomes a balance of, is this good, is this bad, is this right, or is this wrong? And our brain kind of categorizes things, which makes
it easier to be judgmental. And so I think when you look at mindfulness, it gives you that moment, that pause of noticing
where your mind goes. So maybe you can kind of break some of that cycle of automatically judging,
and to start even noticing one good quality about themselves or one thing they're proud of, or not starting
to compare themselves to a standard that are unrealistic expectations of what's perfect, because that
doesn't exist for anybody. [MUSIC PLAYING]
child development
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