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The Perinatal Mental Health Nest

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Struggling to read your baby's behaviour? Finding it hard to tune into their emotions and needs? Feeling insecure in your attachment with your baby? The Perinatal Mental Health Service runs a Circle of Security group programme - an interactive 8-session course. The programme is designed to help parents make sense of what their baby is really asking from them, supports parents to read their baby's needs, and enhances attachment between caregivers and their babies. Learn more about our therapeutic group services ⬇ #CircleofSecurity #PerinatalMentalHealth #Attachment

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Parents. We all wonder if we're getting it right. We want to know we're meeting our children's needs, helping them grow and giving them all that we can. We tried to combine our own experience of being parented with the advice of others and our own instincts and beliefs about what is best. And still, we so often worry that we're not succeeding. In a world that is always offering the next best parenting solution, the Circle of Security is based on decades of attachment research. Unlike many behavioral perspectives, it offers relationship tools to provide a new way of understanding your children's needs, creating lasting security for them, and more satisfaction for you. The circle graphic has been created to help you know what to look for, so you can read your children's behavior to guide you in meeting their needs. It's really not complicated. People of all ages have attachment needs. These needs can be divided in three ways. Let's look at this child. First, he needs to know the freedom and confidence to go out and explore his world. 2nd. He needs to feel assured that whenever he's ready, he can come back for comfort and protection. Third, he needs his caregiver to be in charge in a kind way. Three basic needs that can be thought of as going out on the circle, coming in on the circle, and hands on the circle. Let's have a look in more detail. Feeling safe and supported, our children want to discover their world when going out. They need to know that their exploration is encouraged, that we're right there, watching over them, delighting in them, offering help when needed, and ready to enjoy their new adventures with them. And when they're coming in, they need us to refill their emotional cop. This means organising their emotions and letting them know we are delighted to welcome them back, protect, comfort and understand them. The key for us as parents is to remain strong and kind while knowing when to encourage their going out into the world and how to be available to welcome them back to us. It's crucial that we learn to identify our children's needs like this, because misreading them, or worse, missing them altogether, can cause pain and frustration. We all know how uncomfortable it can be to be held too close when we want to be out exploring or kept at a distance when we need emotional support. Or simply to be without someone who's bigger, stronger, wiser, and kind who we can trust, understand what we need when we're feeling lost, confused. Or out of control. When a child misbehaves, the cause is often rooted in how safe and secure their feeling, so it's not surprising that they behave well when a parent learns to tune into their child's needs on the circle in this way. And because our needs on the circle never disappear, learning to read cues can help you better understand and meet the needs of people of all ages, including your own. So that's all there is to it. Just know that at any given moment, your child is somewhere on the circle asking you to meet a need, support my going out, welcome my coming in, be the hands that keep me safe by staying in charge and committed to helping me feel connected and Please remember. This There's no such thing as perfect parenting. At Circle of Security. We've come to realize that good enough is, well, good enough. All of us are going to miss needs on the Circle time and again. Welcome to the club. But if we meet our children's needs enough of the time, the results will be happier, healthier, more secure children and parents, too.

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