She shared her creative way of teaching her two daughters about mental health and regulating their emotions.
isn’t shying away from the conversation with her two daughters, Lincoln, 9, and Delta, 8. In fact, she came up with an incredibly simple comparison for mental health medication, calling it “broccoli for my brain” after one of her kids saw her taking her meds.
. "I felt like that was a decent comparison. 'This is what keeps my brain healthy. Not everybody needs this.'". Shepard, 48, first started getting sober in 2004. Bell explained that she feels that by being honest with their daughters, she and Shepard are setting a good example of how to check in with yourself and manage overall mental health.
"With my girls, at their school they learn a bunch of different breathing techniques, which we do at home," Bell noted. "So if they're getting really panicked, I go, 'Do you need to regulate? Do you need help?' And we’ll sit down on the floor and do a box breath."Frozento be bright and bubbly like her character Anna, and how medication for depression and anxiety has helped her negate that unrealistic expectation.
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