Reduce emotional stress with dark chocolate!

Parents!

Feeling emotionally stressed?

If you are feeling stressed out, your child will be stressed out, too because they are usually tuned to your emotions.

If you want to help your child, you know that you need to help yourself first.

Recently published article in American Chemical Society (ACS), Journal of Proteome Research showed evidence that eating about ounce and a half dark chocolate a day for two weeks reduced levels of stress hormones of people feeling highly stressed.

How about trying out the dark chocolate for two weeks to reduce your emotional stress?

WHY?

Why in my brain?
It caused me so much pain.
Why in my head?
Perhaps somewhere else instead.
Why in my brain?
We tried a fluid drain.

I just want to walk like you.
I’ve had enough now, haven’t you too?

Poem from Sophie Pollock who lost her battle with cancer in 2007.

Things you can do on Difficult Days

Talk about the child who has died.
Write a letter to him/her.
Eat his/her favourite food.
Watch a video of him/her.
Wear one of his/her clothes like a scarf.
Light a candle.
Look at photos.
Listen to his/her favourite music.
Visit the grave.
Cry, laugh, scream.
Release a balloon with a message.

Some tips for parents and siblings.

What’s the Point?

What’s the point of eyes,
If you’re not here to see?
What’s the point of ears,
If you cannot hear me?
Every sense on my body,
Useless as a broken toy,
What’s the point of beauty,
If you cannot enjoy?

Cry of a parent - by JK.