This week Julie and Philippa ponder when children and young people ‘regress’ in play, thinking about how this can ‘fill in early life gaps’. Pondering how important a playful nappy change can be to a baby and toddler. How unpredictable, inconsistent parenting can impact a child or young person and how they have a sense of the rhythm of life and how can play support the development of this. Pondering co-regulation and regulation, and how important regulation is to experience from the outside in first. Bruce Perry’s regulate, relate, Reason is reference by Julie and Philippa.

Sarah Lloyd’s Building Under developed Sensory Systems work is referenced in relation to how babies develop from in utero.

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In this episode, Julie and Philippa ponder how pets and animals can at times help children, young people and adults. Whether this is in everyday life, therapy or their own homes. While also acknowledging that pets and animals can be unpredictable and even scary.
They think about how this unpredictability can in itself be therapeutic and validating. Sharing their own experiences of pets and how they have been important in communicating with children and how they attune to the emotions and states of those around them.

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Julie and Philippa ponder can play help us find our way back to safety if we are feeling unsafe. Do we need to be safe to play? They ponder relational, physical and psychological safety in play.
They wander their way through play and safety in the therapy room, in families, with toddlers, adolescents and older people.

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This is the very first episode of Pondering Play and Therapy. Julie and Philippa share their journey to creating this first episode, their hopes for the podcast and their (hopefully) listeners.
Julie and Philippa have approached this adventure playfully but very differently, one with caution, the other highly excited but with a shared love of all things play and playfulness.

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