Georgie Wisen-Vincent
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369 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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And I certainly felt that as a mom.
So when you're just playing, when there's not a pressure to kind of do the things that the environment expects me to do, and I just get to create my own world and I get to be.
Myself, then I think that communicates a neurosception of safety.
We've heard that term.
It can fire up parts of the brain that wouldn't ordinarily be allowed to fire up.
And then we can see some things emerging in their play that they wouldn't usually be able to tell us.
So I've played with kids as a play therapist, but also my own kid, where if they've gone through something scary recently, or if they're going through a big, stressful new change.
Change, suddenly I see it showing up in their play.
When the pressure's off and they can just explore what's happening in their world, what's happening in their mind, we get so much better access to the contents of their mind, what's happening inside of them, what makes them tick.
And so, you know, your kid might play about a fear of spiders, or they may play teachers really been on my case lately, and there's a lot of phone calls home.
Or there might be like they were ill recently and they might play about a trip to the doctor that they had to take.
We had an earthquake here at my house.
My kid was playing earthquake, almost like going through the steps that you would take over and over again to just try and make sense of things that are kind of big and cognitively hard for kids to understand sometimes.
So we have this secondary gain by setting up a recipe for playing.
With our kids where they feel free to be themselves, that they can activate those parts of the brain where they can feel safe enough to explore things in this language that they wouldn't ordinarily be able to do.
And it doesn't just have to happen with a play therapist.
It can happen right at home.
You can see new things in your child that maybe you never thought you'd be able to see before.
You're so right when you say, like a lot of the mirroring that we do with our kids, we don't realize that it's part of a recipe for relationship.
It's something that we do.
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