You're never too old to play. And your brain will thank you.
In this episode, I share why play isn't just for children and how reconnecting with your playful side can be transformative for ADHD brains and trauma survivors.
From my dolphin encounter to pretending to be dolphins on the harbour with a friend, I explore how silliness and joy can heal.
This episode includes:
✨ Why our brains learn so well through play (and how to do it deliberately)
✨ Permission to be 'foolish' and silly, even as an adult
✨ How play creates safety and co-regulation with others
✨ Simple ways to start playing when you feel 'too serious' or don't have energy
✨ The ripple effect your playfulness has on everyone around
✨ You're never 'too old' or 'too serious' to play
If this resonates, please subscribe, share with someone who needs more play in their life and let me know in the comments: How will you add more play to your week?
About
Feel Better Every Day! Learn from the self and Self* care practices the professionals depend on.
With a mixture of solo and interview episodes, your host, Eve Menezes Cunningham (author of 365 Ways to Feel Better: Self-care Ideas for Embodied Wellbeing) shares trauma-informed and VAST / ADHD-friendly self and Self* care ideas to help you:
Feel… regulate your nervous system and do the things that help you create a life you don’t need to retreat from
Love… accept yourself completely with love, compassion and kindness – you don’t need to do a thing and
Heal… turn what hurts your heart into action to support your family, organisations, communities and the world at large.
Thanks for listening or watching.
New episodes come out every Tuesday morning (Ireland time) and if you subscribe (via your favourite podcasting app or by joining the Sole to Soul Circle), you’ll be notified about each new episode.
Sole to Soul Circle members get deeper dives each Wednesday morning.
Want to work with me?
• There’s the book – 365 Ways to Feel Better: Self-care Ideas for Embodied Wellbeing – and all the book bonus videos.
• All the free resources (for trauma, ADHD, menopause, solopreneurs, anxiety, sleep, confidence, resilience, finding purpose, meaning and joy and more) across my platforms and the library of self-care ideas and practices at https://selfcarecoaching.net
• You can join the Sole to Soul Circle on Substack (https://evemc.substack.com ) and get bonus interviews and content specially designed to help you dive deeper into each week’s theme.
• If you want to support my work but don’t want to commit to a membership, even for a month, you can choose any amount at https://ko-fi.com/evemc
• While my private practice for one to one work (trauma-informed and ADHD-friendly therapies, Self care coaching, clinical supervision and supervisor’s supervision) is almost always at capacity, if you’re based in Ireland or the UK, it’s still worth completing the short form at https://selfcarecoaching.net/contact to book your free telephone consultation in the hope that we can find a mutually convenient time to work together.
Want to connect on socials?
You can find me almost everywhere – please say ‘Hi’ and tell me what you want to ask or say:
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Insta @evemenezescunningham
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And if you’d like to leave a review and/or rate this and other episodes you’ve enjoyed, your feedback and support helps me help more people (of all genders) with trauma histories and/or ADHD take better care of their whole selves and create lives they don’t need to retreat from.
Chapters
(0:02 - 0:30) Introduction to the Feel Better Every Day Podcast
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