Making Sense of Emotions

Understand your emotions. Support your child’s. Grow together.

Big feelings happen! For you and your child. And when we don’t know how to work with them, we either shut down, lash out, or try to keep it all together until we can’t anymore.

This workbook helps you explore and understand your own emotional landscape, so you can model emotional intelligence, hold space for your child’s big feelings, and respond with empathy (not exhaustion).

Inside, you’ll explore:

• What emotional intelligence really means in parenting
• The six core emotions and what we associate with them
• How to recognize and shift your default emotional patterns (suppression, shutdown, overwhelm)
• How to actually feel your emotions in a way that brings clarity and relief
• The seven core needs behind every feeling and how to meet them
• Faux feelings (like “attacked” or “ignored”) and how to move beyond blame
• How to meet yourself with empathy so you can offer the same to your child
• Tools for co-regulating and supporting your child’s emotional world

This workbook isn’t about fixing your feelingsit’, s about building emotional fluency so you can move through them, not get swept away from them.