Parenting & You With Dr. Shefali Mindfulness, Healing & Meditation: Parenting Through Change
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Mar 31, 2026 
Emily Fletcher, founder of Ziva Meditation and former Broadway performer turned meditation teacher, shares practices in mindfulness, somatic healing, and embodied manifesting. She talks about teaching kids emotional literacy, tools for big feelings, navigating divorce while parenting, co‑parenting strategies, and staying grounded through life transitions.
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Regulate First Then Mirror The Stormies
- Regulate yourself first when your child rages to avoid escalation and shame-based blaming.
- Get to the child’s eye level, mirror their emotion, let them express the “stormies,” then offer a calming tool like shaking or a song.
Introduce Emotional Tools During Calm
- Teach tools in calm moments so children recognize them under stress.
- Emily uses Ziva Kids practices like naming mad/scared/sad stormies and doing mad or sad songs and shaking together to move feelings.
Cultural Numbing Blocks Emotional Capacity
- Society trains people not to feel from infancy using distractions and numbing strategies.
- Emily argues adults' inability to hold their own emotions causes them to stop kids from feeling, so parents must "clean their own house" via meditation.
