Changing the Story: Changing Beliefs and Action Cycles to Achieve Goals

Help children understand ‘triggers’ as reminders of things that happened before. In the past, children may have needed to jump into an alarm state and fight or run away to survive. Now, children are older, wiser, bigger, and can get help. Children can respond to ‘triggers’ with their skills of centering, calming, slow breathing, and thinking about how they can now manage to do what seemed impossible at a younger age.