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Radio Today TonightRadio Today Podcast: Jonesy & Amanda's timeslot change, Gold Coast survey results, Wondery dismantledIn this week's podcast with Jen Seyderhelm: Jonesy and Amanda to move to drive with Christian O’Connell going national Hot tomato on top on the Gold Coast The dismantling of former giant of podcast networks Wondery The end of an era for the Sunshine Coast’s Mix and other movements The National Radio Airplay Chart song of the week Guy Sebastian's Get it Done Are you going to RadioDays Asia in Jakarta next month? Information and registrations here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2025-08-0709 min
Radio Today TonightRadio Today Podcast: Bonus Survey 1 episodeIn Sydney 2GB is No 1 station just ahead of smooth 95.3. Ben Fordham is No 1 for GB on breakfast, Kyle and Jackie O No 1 FM. Smooth’s Bogart Torelli and Jonesy and Amanda on Gold 101.7 saw the biggest losses and the biggest gains were for triple j off the back of the Hottest 100 and for Nova 96.9, bearing in mind that Kate Ritchie has been on personal leave from breakfast with Fitzy and Wippa since early Feb. Mark Levy who took over from Ray Hadley on 2GB Mornings when Ray retired last year held on to No 1 spot. Melbourne, 3AW...
2025-03-2709 min
EDDIE’s LAUNCHPADSAmanda SeyderhelmIn this special 'Festive LaunchPads, Eddie and Cap'n Dave talk to Amanda Seyderhelm about the pressures of family life, teaching and the need for well-being, especially during this cost of living crisis and coming Christmas 2022.
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2022-12-1522 min
Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda SeyderhelmS2 #13 If you can't say it, sing it with Sophie Garner"If you can't say it, sing it" is not only Sophie Garner's mantra, it's the title of her new book, a journal going deeper into supporting children in navigating their emotions through creative expression.Having started her professional career with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain (1991-1992 Maggie May and Amphibias Spangulatos), a determination to succeed and share her passions emerged, leading Sophie to become the first artist to play the London O2 Arena, setting a standard to beat by artists who followed in her footsteps. And others soon noticed Sophie’s talents, giving her opportunities to...
2022-06-1638 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda SeyderhelmS2 #12 Helping children to engage with their grief in order to heal with Justin BowenAfter his wife died in 2016, Justin Bowen wanted to create a resource for Schools based on the caring support his young children received from their local School in Worcestershire. Be The Rainbow is that resource. His young daughter painted the rainbow on the book's front cover during lockdown, which Justin says gave both his children the chance to play at home - water fights in the garden, climbing trees - and not be defined by their grief. The rainbow represents the hope after the storm of grief. What a stunning metaphor!We often hear the...
2022-05-0936 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda SeyderhelmS2 #11 Is there such a thing as "Good Grief" following a bereavement with Jane HarrisCan there be anything called ‘good’ grief especially when it follows from the death of a child?Surely grief is that most abject of conditions in which you are thrown into an endless darkness, where despair overcomes hope, and longing for the loved one lost is a pain beyond endurance? How can this be good?Jane Harris and Jimmy Edmonds have created THE GOOD GRIEF PROJECT in order to share their experience of grief and to help others to find an active and creative response to the expression of their grief.Their son Josh...
2022-05-0950 min
The Meaningful Life with Andrew G. MarshallDaisy Turnbull: How to Talk to TeenagersTeenagers have a big reputation for being hard to talk to. How can you find that spark of connection with your teen? Is there a way to set up a channel of communication so that you can help them through the rough patches?
In this episode Andrew talks to Australian teacher and author Daisy Turnbull about her new book, 50 Questions to Ask Your Teens.
Daisy shares insights from her work as a teacher, as well as from her own teenage years growing up in a household where both parents had high-profile and demanding careers.
2022-05-0251 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda SeyderhelmS2 #10 How to talk to a child about bereavement with Ann Chalmers, Chief Executive, Child Bereavement UKAnyone who has experienced the loss of a loved one will know that you never stop grieving for those you have loved, and what an important journey it is to find a way to live with that loss.Child Bereavement UK has been helping families facing that journey since 1994 and that is why I'm delighted to be in conversation with Ann Chalmers, the Chief Executive of the charity.If you have been concerned about how to talk to bereaved children, and what questions to ask, this conversation will be a helpful guide. We talk about...
2022-04-2547 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda SeyderhelmS2 #09 What can parents do 'in the meantime' while they wait for a professional assessment with Safeguarding expert Kayla ShepherdWaiting can be stressful. While the waiting lists for child mental health assessments get longer, our anxiety ramps up. Parents and children wait in limbo. Feeling helpless. Do professionals hold all the answers? What can we do ‘in the meantime’ period while we wait for a professional assessment?According to Safeguarding expert Kayla Shepherd, staying in this anxious state can disempower us, and keep us focused on our losses. The key to coping with our anxiety while we wait, is to understand both the risk and protective factors our children are facing as they struggle to process big...
2022-04-0434 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda SeyderhelmS2 #08 What can nature teach us about coping with anxiety with Play and LandPlay Therapist Kate MacairtThe world is in crisis, from climate change, the Pandemic and now the Russian war in Ukraine. We are feeling the impact of this collective trauma in our bodies, and seeing anxiety levels rise higher than ever. Our sense of belonging is being questioned at all personal and public levels, and our feeling of being disconnected from ourselves and the Earth continues as technology and algorithms seem to be taking over our life choices.It's time to put our wellies on and step outside into the mud as an antidote to the high tech indoor environment, and...
2022-03-2146 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda SeyderhelmS2 #07 Finding Hope after Parental Loss with Phoebe and Ian GilbertA child loses a parent every twenty-two minutes in the UK. Childhood bereavement brings with it a whole series of challenges for the children involved - challenges they will deal with all their lives.What to say to a bereaved child stumps many teachers. They are afraid of saying the wrong thing, and tend to say nothing.Phoebe Gilbert was 9 when her Mum died. She is now 23, a University graduate starting her first job at www.nudgeeducation.co.uk which offers bespoke intervention for anyone, anywhere, chronically disengaged from education. Her Father, Ian Gilbert, founder...
2022-03-0636 minThe Meaningful Life with Andrew G. MarshallAmanda Seyderhelm: How Can Children and Adults Cope With Childhood Grief?How can we help our children understand grief and loss? How can we recover as adults, if no-one helped us make sense of grief and loss as a child?
Amanda Seyderhelm is an expert in innovative creative play therapy for children, and the author of a book called Helping Children Cope with Loss and Change. Amanda changed careers to work in play therapy after a life-threatening illness changed everything for her.
In this episode Amanda and Andrew discuss:
🌈 How to talk to children who are grieving.
🌈 How storytelling plays a part in perso...
2022-02-2155 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda SeyderhelmS2 #06 Managing your wellbeing through the pandemic with Dr Tina RaeThe Covid Pandemic has been a collective trauma. A crash course in learning how to cope with uncertainty and change. If we were anxious pre-Covid, this suddenly escalated for children and families to a frightening level and threatened all aspects of our wellbeing. Were Mummy or Daddy going to die and leave me alone?We were also worried about our health. We didn't have the vaccines. We didn't understand how this was going to work. We didn't understand the impact emotionally, the fear of this unprecedented unknown.Dr Tina Rae used her skills and 30 years...
2022-02-1841 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda SeyderhelmS2 #05 How music therapy can support children through bereavement with Music Therapist, Marion BartonWhen a child is struggling to express their feelings verbally, music therapy can be a suitable medium through which they can 'drum out' their feelings.Listening to and creating music is a powerful connector to our feelings and emotions, and helps us to bypass our internal critic which can often override these. In these musical moments, real clarity can be gained about our lives as the child, and the child inside us comes out to play.Music Therapy is an established psychological clinical intervention, delivered by HCPC registered music therapists to help people whose lives...
2022-02-0346 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda SeyderhelmS2 #04 Exploring emotions through game play with Arts Psychotherapist, Karen StallardThe pandemic has taught us the true importance of emotional connections. While we protect our bodies from infection, emotional bonds protect our minds from poor mental health and the disconnection that comes with isolation. Within the Western culture, we are very good at saying “I think”, but not so good at saying “I feel”. We are also not very good at listening to someone talk about distressing feelings. Rather than empathising we may try and solve the problem to remove the feeling as quickly as possible.In this episode, Karen shares the background to 20 Dreams, an innova...
2022-01-2136 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda SeyderhelmS2 #03 Practical tips for helping a child through divorce with The Parenting Coach, Sue AtkinsWhat happens when the dream of marriage dies, and the reality of divorce sinks in? Where does all the love and pain go, and how do families begin to process the grief of this loss and change? How do they navigate not only new custody arrangements for their children, but also their divorced relationship?We all remember the divorce movie, Kramer vs. Kramer, which highlighted what happens when a couple allows anger and hurt to drive their conversations. The only good thing that came out of this was the realisation that a child's needs matter, their feelings...
2022-01-0931 minEDDIE’s LAUNCHPADSEpisode 8On this week's LaunchPad Captain Dave and Eddie meet Karen who helps them to discover the wonders of The Fens. The beautiful countryside. museums and interesting places to visit that are found between #Boston to #Cambridge and between #Peterborough and #KingsLynn
@FascinatingFens #Fenland #TheFens #Ely #Wicken #Wisbech #PeterboroughMuseum #ThomasClarkson #CharlesDickens
Then they meet the author and child play therapist, Amanda Seyderhelm who helps children to smile again.
It is #NationalGriefAwarenessWeek and Amanda offers very useful advice to #parents #teachers & #schools about helping #children dealing from the effects of grief and loss....
2021-12-0323 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda SeyderhelmS2 #02 The Wellbeing Curriculum with Andrew CowleyAndrew Cowley, author of The Wellbeing Toolkit and co-founder of Healthy Toolkit (@HealthyToolkit), talks about his new book, The Wellbeing Curriculum - the ultimate guide to help primary schools develop a practical, principled and values-driven wellbeing curriculum for their pupils. Schools are responsible for giving children the tools and emotional resilience to cope with the changes and challenges they will face in the future. Developing an explicit wellbeing curriculum for primary-aged children is crucial: when taught how to make good life choices and care for their physical and mental health, children will thrive both at primary school a...
2021-09-2044 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda SeyderhelmS2 #01 The secrets of how Super parenting can help overcome trauma-triggered behaviour with clinical psychologist and author Dr Amber ElliottDr Amber Elliott, Clinical Psychologist and author explains why children who have experienced early trauma need something different - therapeutic parenting - a kind of everyday 'superparenting' which champions empathy over punishment.Trying to parent children who have trauma-triggered behaviours is tough, and none of us are perfect. Taking this as a starting point, Dr Elliott provides us with a ten-step process to transform your parenting. From developing self-acceptance and ideas for building motivation through to creative ways to think about structure and routine.She has given us the keys to unlock meaningful connections with...
2021-09-0651 min
Don't tell me how to parentPlaying through the Covid pandemicCovid-19 has turned our worlds upside down and it has added new challenges for parents. In this conversation Amanda Seyderhelm inspires and encourages parents with unique insights. Amanda is a recognised expert in the field of innovative play therapy and she shares extremely valuable practical tips on how we can help our children though this time. Find more information about Amanda on her website as well as on her social media pages below.www.amandaseyderhelm.comTwitter @TheKidDecoderInstagram @AmandaSeyderhelm
2021-09-0631 min
The Sue Atkins Parenting Show Podcast SeriesWhy Do Toddlers Bite? Night Terrors Explained How To Stop Nail Biters, Thumb Suckers and Nose Pickers! plus Sue Atkins in Conversation with Amanda Seyderhelm Play Therapist, Author and Grief Specialist.
2021-08-1033 min
The Sue Atkins Parenting ShowWhy Do Toddlers Bite?Night Terrors Explained How To Stop Nail Biters, Thumb Suckers and Nose Pickers! plus Sue Atkins in Conversation with Amanda Seyderhelm Play Therapist, Author and Grief Specialist.
2021-08-1033 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm#26 How nutrition can affect a child's mood, with author and nutrition consultant Jayne AveryToday’s episode looks at the connection between mood and food in children through the lens of storytelling. My guest is a teacher and nutritional consultant Jayne Avery, author of The Secret of the Golden Cauldron.Talking about food, the rights and wrongs, can be an emotive topic for parents. While some choose to be organic, vegan and plant-based, others might not be in a position to make that choice. Some might be in a position to, and still decide, for whatever reason, not to. But, what is scientifically proven is how eating sugar can affect a ch...
2021-07-0527 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm#25 Why creative writing helps children build empathy with Fiona ClarkTeacher and author Fiona Clark's new book A Practical Guide to Creative Writing in Schools: Seven Creative Writing Projects for ages 8-14 is not only well timed, it is also rooted in psychobiology.We talk about the research of Dr Daisy Fancourt, Associate Professor of Psychobiology & Epidemiology at UCL which shows that the cognitive strategies the brain uses to regulate our emotions are when we are taking part in creative activities.Fiona's creative writing programmes in schools increase children's confidence with their English, as well as enable them to discover strategies to cope with their...
2021-06-2142 min
Tiny Voice Talks with Toria BonoPlay therapy with Amanda SeyderhelmIn this episode, Toria talks to Amanda all about play therapy and how it can help children to decode how they feel. Amanda is a recognised expert in her field of innovative creative play therapy for children. She is a certified Play Therapist based in Stamford, where she focuses her work with children between the ages of 4 and 12.Her area of specialism is in treating children (and their families) who are suffering with mild to moderate emotional or psychological problems (read more about her therapy practice here).Amanda is also a published a...
2021-06-1832 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm#24 My Dad's death didn't break me with children's author Mark LemonWhen Mark Lemon was 12, his father was killed. Even at such a young age, he knew he had to make peace with himself in order to have a future.But how to do that at such a tender age, before puberty, and without a male role model? He talks about a special teacher, and the synchronicity of finding people who became 'teachers', guiding him through some very dark and angry times. But it was the milestone of becoming a Father himself that reconnected Mark to a deep sense of love that he traces back to his Father...
2021-06-0747 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda SeyderhelmChildhood bereavement - how journalist Flora Baker learned to grieve the loss of her parentsFlora Baker was only twenty when her mum died suddenly of cancer. Her coping strategy was simple: ignore the magnitude of her loss. But when her dad became terminally ill nine years later, Flora was forced to confront the reality of her grief. She had to accept that her life had changed forever.We talk about Flora’s book, The Adult Orphan Club, in which she draws on a decade of experience with grief and parent loss to explore all the chaotic ways that grief affects us, and how we can learn to navigate it. Written with th...
2021-05-2052 min
Grief Is My Side HustleEp 6. Amanda Seyderhelm: What is child therapy and how does it help?What a delight to have Amanda Seyderhelm, therapist, writer and host of the podcast Helping Children Smile Again as my guest on the podcast. Our conversation opens up some of the mysteries of navigating loss with children and what play therapy is all about. Such a warm, thoughtful and smart therapist, Amanda talks generously about her life's work and why she finds it so rewarding.
For more information on Amanda and her books and podcast go to her website: www.amandaseyderhelm.com
2021-05-181h 06Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm#22 What not to say to a bereaved parent. A conversation with Ruth Caroline, Founder of Living Family GriefMy podcast guest this week is Ruth Caroline, founder of Living Family Grief. A platform that has been created to share the reality of living family life and being bereaved; as a child, sibling and a parent.Death and grief have played a large part in her life. Having lost her older brother Tom, as a teenager, to melanoma cancer in 1999, she experienced a profound loss in her formative family life. Twenty years later, she was blessed with her own family. Devastatingly, her son Tom, a twin, became unwell with Hepatoblastoma, a form of liver cancer, and...
2021-05-041h 04Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm#21 A conversation about loneliness amid loss with Alex Smith, founder and CEO of The Cares FamilyHave you felt lonely during 2020, or even before that? I know I have.While loneliness can subjectively come and go like sadness and happiness, there are people who live with loneliness much more chronically, and for whom it's a form of marginalization. Over the last year, we have seen more people withdraw from wider society, and loneliness has become a personal crisis for people who experience it.My podcast guest this week is Alex Smith, founder and CEO of The Cares Family, a group of charities, bringing people together to reduce loneliness and build connection...
2021-04-261h 02Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm#20 Healing from grief and loss with integrative GP Dr Rosy DanielAfter a year of loss and isolation, we need tools to reintegrate.This podcast interview with integrative GP Dr Rosy Daniel looks at grief through a holistic, and regenerative lens.Actively taking a role in the changes loss brings moves us away from being a passive bystander.Accepting that no aspect of our life is unaffected by the loss frees us to discover new inner and outer resources.Attending to mind, body and spirit reconnects our fragmented selves, and heart.Start by asking yourself:1/ How do I...
2021-04-1939 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm#19 Writing your way through grief with trauma therapist Meghan Riordan JarvisGrief is something I’ve been growing the muscles to carry.In some ways it’s a back alley experience.We try to keep the front of house shiny and bright. Fresh flowers in a vase.We grievers will use all the words we have, and they all mean the same thing: I am not who I once was.Today is my forty-seventh birthday. My parents are dead. It’s a pandemic. I don’t leave the house much. I write, teach, talk, about grief all day long.My grief is a...
2021-04-121h 10Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm#18 What to say to a bereaved child with clinical psychologist Dr Rebecca HershbergTeaching parents how to separate adult emotions from those of their children, their own pasts from their children's presents is the foundation work of Dr Rebecca Hershberg, clinical psychologist and parenting coach. So often, she says, we don't even realise the two have become linked, or fused, and yet our parenting choices - conscious or reflexive - are dictated by what 'our' nervous system knows based on past experience, and not on the child in front of us.This fusion can be a problem when dealing with big emotions and feelings, where the potential to be triggered...
2021-04-0542 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm#17 Removing the mask of talking about male suicide with Man On! Inverclyde founder Chris PaulThe topic I am asked most about in my trainings is suicide. There is so much fear, and shame attached to suicide, as well as myths that I was delighted to talk to Chris Paul in this episode who founded and runs a suicide peer support service for men about what we can do to help someone who is struggling with suicidal thoughts, as well as someone who is bereaved from suicide.Chris and his team of volunteers provide a safe space for men to talk, and offload their concerns, where there is no pressure to be...
2021-03-2958 min
BEC - Podcast#S1 - Ep7 - Year of Reflection with Amanda SeyderhelmIn our 7th episode we will feature an in-depth interview with the inspiring Amanda Seyderhelm, a Play and Creative Arts Therapist, author and podcaster. Amanda discusses grief, loss and bereavement whilst having a focus on the emotional baggage involved with caring for others. We start the episode with a reflection back on the year within the pandemic, recorded on the week of the National #DayOfReflection. Our thoughts are with everyone who has been impacted by Coronavirus over the last 12 months.
You can find Amanda's work across these platforms:
Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5YxmCnkQ5...
2021-03-2533 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm#16 What are monsters for kids with play therapist Dennis McCarthyChildren come to therapy with monstrous feelings - monstrous grief, monstrous rage, and longing. I talk to Dennis McCarthy, dance and play therapist about how the stories of children, and their monstrous feelings are transformed through play.These monstrous feelings are unacceptable, unfaceable to themselves, as well as to the world around them. McCarthy invites children (and adults) to draw themselves as a monster which helps legitimise their feelings, and creates a dialogue between therapist, child, and monster which takes them into a cave 'where the wild things are', a place where words are often not needed...
2021-03-1826 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm#15 How do we talk about death and dying with Palliative Care Consultant, Dr Kathryn MannixThe pandemic has raised the bar around our fear of death and dying, and how we approach death and dying is as important as how we are birthed. Kathryn Mannix talks about why the contemplation of one's own death is a complex affair, and how when people are asked about their mortality, they are able and willing to answer, and when they share that burden they often discover, from within themselves, new insights and ideas that help them to cope.She shares some of those insights from her book, With the End in Mind. We hear about...
2021-03-1556 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm#14 How bereavement charity Harry’s Rainbow has adapted to support children and families during the Pandemic with founder and CEO Odette MouldBereavement charities have had to adapt quickly to the rising need for support during the pandemic, and Harry's Rainbow have done an inspiring job posting out Positivity Boxes to every grieving child in the post, along with the range of crafting activities. I talk to founder Odette Mould about her journey to set up Harry's Rainbow after her beloved son Harry suddenly died aged 5, and her recommendations for how to support grieving children in the early days of bereavement. Find out more about Harry’s Rainbowhttps://www.facebook.com/HarrysRainbowhttp...
2021-03-0857 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm#13 How to use therapeutic story for grieving foster, adoptive and kinship families with play therapist Dr Joan MooreIn this episode I talk to dramatherapist Dr Joan Moore about how dramatherapy gives fostered, and adopted children who have been through so many changes and experienced multiple losses along the way, of important relationships, belongings, pets the ‘stage’ and metaphoric distance to play out stories, and make meaningful change.She explains how dramatherapy gives caregivers/parents and those in education the tools to support children more effectively than just talking to them.Drama therapy is an embodied practice that is active and experiential. This approach can provide the context for participants to tell their stor...
2021-03-0145 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm#12 Male anorexia and The Year I didn’t Eat with author Samuel PollenAnorexia is all about loss. Not just of weight, but of connection to self, and the social context. Male anorexia isn’t talked about as much as female anorexia, so when I discovered Samuel Pollen had drawn on his personal experience with anorexia to write his debut novel, #theyearididnteat - a harrowing, funny, moving, up-lifting story about Max: a 14 year old boy who has anorexia, I knew I wanted to interview him for my podcast (next week), and ask him about the role his creative process has played in his life, about grief, and gender stereotypesThe bo...
2021-02-2048 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm#11 Unpack your emotional backpack and avoid compassion fatigueWe all have times when we struggle to prioritise our emotional needs, and it can leave us physically and emotionally exhausted, unable to sleep well, and feeling irritable. It's what trauma expert Dr Eric Gentry calls 'compassion fatigue' - a sign that our internal emotional backpack is overflowing because we are struggling to prioritise our own emotional needs. The pandemic has highlighted this struggle in bold!In today's episode I outline the 4 steps of an exercise called, 'unpacking your emotional backpack' which is a helpful way to prevent compassion fatigue. It allows you to have difficult conversations...
2021-02-1531 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm#10 How to help children cope with separation anxiety after divorceThe one thing children of divorced parents have in common is a struggle to accept the loss of the family unit. While there may be good custody arrangements in place, the child still has to learn how to manage the transitions each time they leave one home to stay at the other. These are small losses for them to cope with emotionally and often get overlooked.This is definitely the moment to learn how to use the three As:1/ Acknowledge the child's struggle.2/ Accept them where they are, and what they are telling you...
2021-02-0128 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm#09 How to support a child who loses a beloved petThe death of a pet is a very challenging event in a young child's life, and they need guidance from their teachers, parents or grandparents to help them make sense of this loss.In this episode I talk about how you can help grieving children cope with their feelings, and the role monsters play in helping you both understand their fears.The 6 stages of help:1/ Creative expression. make time to draw, paint, play with clay freely. Making this space gives the child permission to express their feelings without pressure or exception, and to...
2021-01-2531 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm#08 How to tame the tantrumTantrums are common when a child feels disconnected from their parent. It can be their way of crying out for a closer connection. During the grieving process a child’s fear of being abandoned or lost intensifies, and this manifests in separation anxiety – when the parent leaves the room or, the home for a short period of time, they may have what we call a tantrum.This is probably my number 1 referral issue, and as I write in my book, Helping Children Cope with Loss and Change, tantrums are really just signals – a child’s way of flagging...
2021-01-1813 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm#07 Attachment is a grieving issueThe way children grieve will be determined by their attachment style. Research completed by Dr Colin Murray Parkes shows us that the attachment style and vulnerability that is evident in childhood continues into adult life, and may have an impact on the way individuals react to losses such as bereavements in adult life.Teachers can provide children with the secure base that makes them feel safe enough to face the struggles associated with loss, and change that can make them feel very unsafe.1/ Learn to recognise a child's attachment style so that you can offer...
2021-01-1009 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm#06 How an award-winning Theatre-in-Education charity Big Brum uses drama to help children indirectly express their grief.Covid has put the kibosh on the performing arts, but Ben Ballin and Richard Holmes of The Big Brum Theatre-in-Education company have reimagined this experience online for schools. They talk to me today about the challenges of performing their first monodrama about lockdown life, and how this created opportunities to explore an opening up of the self for children and teachers, which has helped teachers to know, hear, and listen to their student's feelings of displacement, recovery, and grief in profoundly unexpected ways.How can we connect with ourselves first, and be social in a world that...
2020-12-141h 12Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm#05 The importance of a Bereavement Policy in schools with Head Teacher, Kate OwbridgeIt's not yet mandatory for schools to have a bereavement policy, which is odd because according to research done by Child Bereavement UK, 1 child in every class is bereaved. In view of the Pandemic death rate tipping over 60k people, I was curious to find out if this had prompted change, and who better to talk to than Kate Owbridge, Executive Head Teacher at Ashdown Primary in East Sussex, whose school bereavement policy was recommended to me by one of its parents.Teachers are also facing an unprecedented challenge in the classroom. Without a bereavement...
2020-12-0745 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm#04 Languages of Loss with psychotherapist and author Sasha BatesIf you are bereaved, then you know how language is the key to expressing our grief. The hardest part is trying to make sense of our loss, and to reshape our life that has irrevocably changed. Rather than letting go of our old self, it's possible to expand and make room for our grieving self. My guest Sasha Bates, author and psychotherapist has written a book, part memoir, part guide, called LANGUAGES OF LOSS following the unexpected death of her husband, Bill Cashmore. Her career as a psychotherapist is brought into sharp relief as she tries to make sense o...
2020-11-301h 03Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm#03: Barnardos reports on lockdown impact on child mental health with senior policy advisor Maisie DaviesMaisie Davies is Barnardos Senior Policy and Research Officer, the UK’s largest children’s charity. She leads policy work on mental health and wellbeing for the organisation, authoring key reports such as Time for a Clean Slate - which makes the case for putting wellbeing at the heart of the education system, and co-authoring In Our Own Words with 10 young people on the impact of COVID-19 on children and young people’s mental health.Maisie and I discuss the impact of Covid-19, and lockdown on children and young people, in particular Black, Asian and minorit...
2020-11-0649 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda SeyderhelmEpisode #03: Maisie Davies - Barnardo's Senior Policy & Research OfficerMaisie Davies is a Senior Policy and Research Officer for Barnardo’s, the UK’s largest children’s charity. She leads policy work on mental health and wellbeing for the organisation, authoring key reports such as Time for a Clean Slate - which makes the case for putting wellbeing at the heart of the education system, and co-authoring In Our Own Words with 10 young people on the impact of COVID-19 on children and young people’s mental health.Maisie and I discuss the impact of Covid-19, and lockdown on children and young people, in particul...
2020-11-0600 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm#02 Domestic abuse makes grief invisible with author Catherine LawlerDuring lockdown, Women’s Aid charity has reported a significant increase in calls to their helpline from women and children being abused. With mental health services being stretched beyond their limits, the risk is that families will remain both invisible and unsupported in their need to not only get safe, but also process their trauma.In episode 02 I talk with Catherine Lawler, a children’s therapist specialising in domestic abuse, and a training consultant for a Safeguarding Children’s Partnership about how these losses can become visible in a way that enables healing to be processed.Lawl...
2020-09-1745 minHelping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm#01 Using expressive arts in the classroom with educational psychologist Juliette TtofaJuliette Ttofa is a specialist educational psychologist and author with a long-standing interest in the complex issues surrounding trauma, attachment needs and emotional resilience. In this episode we talk about how she uses the expressive arts to support children and young people in their schools, particularly in relation to her new book, The Girl Who Lost the Light in Her Eyes: A Storybook to Support Children and Young People Who Experience Loss, a beautifully illustrated and sensitively written storybook which has been created to be used therapeutically with children experiencing loss. Telling the story of a young...
2020-09-091h 02
Pooky Ponders – Big Questions with Brilliant PeopleHow should we talk to children about grief and loss? | Amanda SeyderhelmToday's question is "how should we talk to children about grief and loss?" and I'm in conversation with Amanda Seyderhelm an experienced play therapist and enables affected children to make sense of their feelings and to find a comfortable way to express themselves and their worries through their natural language of play.Amanda is the author of Helping Children Cope with Loss and Change: A Guide for Professionals and Parents: https://amzn.to/3eCUBZZAmanda’s website: https://www.amandaseyderhelm.comFollow her on twitter: https://twitter.com/TheKidDecoderSupport the show...
2020-07-181h 15
Trauma Resonance ResilienceSeason 2, Episode 18 LIVE Webinar with Amanda Seyderhelm on Grief, Loss and BereavementSend us a textTalking to Children about Grief and Loss during COVID-19.COVID-19 has not only disrupted every aspect of our daily lives, and locked us down, it has also magnified losses that were pre-existing, and opened up the topics of death, loss and grief, making them part of our daily conversations. If we found these conversations difficult before COVID-19, and avoided having them, thinking grief and loss were topics for ‘another day’, they are even harder now, as the issue of mortality has threatened our sense of safety, challenged our capacity for change, emot...
2020-04-2957 min
Future Primitive PodcastsCoaching Creative PeopleAmanda Seyderhelm creates her life from the inside out. As a writer and life coach she specializes in coaching creative people who want to uncover their Big Dream and start living it. “My biggest ‘wake up’ was in 2002 when I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. This was my body and soul speaking up for […]
2009-09-1138 min