Supporting Children With The Back to School Pandemic Uncertainty w/ Dr Laura Anderson Kirby

Wisdom for Wellbeing (Modern Psychology and Yoga-Based Skills)

In this episode, we talk about how to support our children with navigating the uncertainty that comes with the pandemic and going back to school. Dr Laura Anderson Kirby's book, "Henrietta's Thistleberry Boots" beautifully illustrates the feelings our children might be experiencing during these unpredictable times.

Laura Anderson Kirby, Ph.D. is a children’s book author inspired by her work as child clinical psychologist and her experience raising two young, spirited children. She completed her undergraduate degree at Duke University, where she majored in Psychology and minored in English. She then spent two years in training at the Yale Child Study Center, followed by a five-year Developmental/Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at the University of Maryland. Laura then returned to the Yale Child Study Center to complete her clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship. Currently, she is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in North Carolina. Laura’s passion is to promote child mental health and social-emotional learning through her writing and her practice, to help spirited and neurodiverse children feel understood, and to inspire societal acceptance of all kinds of people—because the world needs them!

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