One of my clients (I will call her Sophia) has been teaching her child the lessons she is learning from working with me. 

Her son, (I will call him James) is 6 years old and was having some difficulty falling asleep.  Sophia would tuck him in, and 10 minutes later, he would come upstairs saying he had a bad dream.   She would comfort him, tuck him back in, and often that would be the end of the story. 

But Sophia was confused about how he could fall asleep and have a bad dream within a 10-minute period.  She wondered if it was an excuse to come and see her, instead of staying in bed, but when she questioned him, he insisted that he had been dreaming.

After several of these incidents, she asked for further information and discovered that he was having thoughts about dying – not dreams, but heavy, difficult, sleep-stealing thoughts.

Her initial thought was to tell him to pray, but James is 6 and claims that he is not sure what to pray to make the bad thoughts go away.    

“Well, buddy,” said Sophia, “did you know that you can choose your thoughts?” James did not know that.

So, Sophia showed him how…

“What is one of your favourite things to do?”, she asked him. “Building Farm Sims,” was his reply.

“Alright.  Well, when you crawl into bed and these heavy thoughts come, build your farm in your head.  Add detail.  Enjoy the experience.  And I will come and check on you in a few minutes.”

James went back to bed, and when Sophia checked on him 10 minutes later, he was fast asleep. 

Both James and Sophia learned that they can “capture their thoughts” and change them to foster their growth, rather than stealing their peace.   

Sophia is breaking the generational cycle of anxiety by passing on the skills she is learning by working with me.  When she shared this story with me, I got shivers. 

Generational cycles are being broken, one T.I.N.Y. step at a time 😊  

If you are interested in breaking the generational cycle of anxiety, click this link to connect with me and I will show you what that looks like. 

Let’s step into FREEDOM and leave SELF-CRITICISM behind!