Emotions
What emotion does someone feel when good things happen.
Happiness, Joy, Excitement.
What are family dynamics.
family dynamics are how individuals in a family interact with one another.
You had a bad day at school and came home to your parents fighting.
How would you feel coming home to this?
What does it mean to feel safe.
Feeling safe mean to feel like you can express yourself openly and honestly, being your true self without fear of you well being, emotions, physical body or values.
What was it like starting to attend individual therapy?
How did you feel starting, and how do you feel now?
What emotion do people feel when bad things happen.
Sadness, Despair, Numb, Emptiness, Exhausted, Hurt, angry.
What is you relationship like with...
Jordan
When you are having intense emotions...
How do you parents act with you.
What is DCF?
What is it like for you to be in family therapy?
Why do you think you are here?
What do you hope will happen?
What is Depression
Depression is an experience that people can have due to a bunch of different things. Usually depression looks like prolonged sadness, feelings of numbness and emptiness. Lack of appetite. Lack of sleep or too much sleep. Lack of joy in activities that we once liked. Isolation and Loneliness.
What is you relationship with both of your moms.
Mommy
Momma
Say an event is going on like a hockey game and you only want one parent to go...
What do you say?
How does that make you feel?
What do you think would happen if you asked?
What is Trauma?
Trauma is a mental, emotional or physical response to experiencing a traumatic event.
What was it like for you, your mom and your brother to pack your bags and go on a camping trip without your other mom.
What was going on in your head?
What is Anxiety?
Anxiety is an emotional, mental and physical experience. Anxiety can feel like excessive worry or fear of something specific/unknown. Anxiety can take up all the room in your head and feel like a screaming voice telling you that bed things might happen in a given scenario. Anxiety can feel like a tightness in your chest, an upset stomach, feeling sweaty, nauseous, fast breathing.
How would you describe...
How your family acts with one another.
Say one parent is living in the house, and another parent isn't.
How does that make you feel?
Why do you think this is happening?
What needs to change in order to fix this?
What is a Traumatic Event?
A Traumatic event comes in all shapes and sizes. A Traumatic experience for one person can be not traumatic for another person. In general however, a traumatic event is an event that has an extreme negative association that leaves a mental, emotional or physical mark. For example, witnessing someone get hurt can be a traumatic event, even if you personally dont get hurt, seeing someone else get hurt can leave a mark.
Have you ever experienced a traumatic event.
What was that event.
How does that event effect you now?
List three emotions that you feel for each family member.
Mommy
Momma
Jordan
What would you want your family dynamic to look like after therapy.
How would you know this happened?
Given everything you know about what's going on?
What is the worse case scenario?
What is the bast case scenario?
What is Abuse?
Abuse comes in many forms. Emotional, Physical, verbal, financial, sexual, etc.
Abuse is when someone is excessively mistreats you. This can be in one instance or multiple instances over time.
What happened when DCF came to your house.
How did you feel?
What did you think was happening?
Why do you think it happened?