https://www.marciecostello.ca/take-a-peek daily 0.75 2021-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a80b6f1039da7105c4e03a/1621971701036-8O1V13ZEIVC2ZAUC1VPL/15.jpg Take a peek - “My silver buttons are unique you see. I have had them with me since I was three!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a80b6f1039da7105c4e03a/1622045385308-WS1SVK1EZAJUIGITQ4OU/16.jpg Take a peek - “Mommy said when I am five, my silver buttons will shrink in size.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a80b6f1039da7105c4e03a/1622228613286-C8AKJGOHY8ZZ1HRQBSEQ/17.jpg Take a peek - “I think she meant that I will grow. My silver buttons, I will miss them so.” https://www.marciecostello.ca/about daily 0.75 2021-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a80b6f1039da7105c4e03a/1622044890209-KWIZ1N69I6G1C63LMHV2/Screen+Shot+2021-05-25+at+5.23.40+PM.png About - About me. For over a decade, I have had the utmost privilege to work with families in all facets of life, being witness to all the moments life brings, both small and big, happy and sad. As a mother to three beautiful children who are now two adults and a pre-teen, I have experienced all of the tremendous love and worry, patience and joy, doubt and celebration that comes along with parenting. The one thing that I have taken through all of these phases in both my personal life and in my career is the notion that whatever we’re feeling, whatever the fear or the worry or the happiness, that particular feeling cannot be measured by anyone else and is as grand a feeling to others as it is to you. So, when I raised my own children, giving them the freedom to express their feelings however they needed to, was pivotal to showing them the love and respect they deserve, the safe place to share their thoughts, express their fears, and know that they are never doing anything alone because I’ll walk through it with them. This philosophy is what I carry with me when I work with families in my profession or share a private moment of conversation with my eleven-year-old daughter. Change is tough. Life is tough. Silver Buttons is about just that, and knowing that in small steps, we can all move forward feeling safe, loved and open to new beginnings. To the right; my life with clients who have become family over the years… — Marcie Costello, Children’s Author, Family Photographer, Meditation Guide, EFT Tapping Practitioner, CBT Certified. Viist my photography page HERE www.marciephoto.ca https://www.marciecostello.ca/home daily 1.0 2024-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a80b6f1039da7105c4e03a/942ad784-1565-4f09-918d-23c86f5e0653/Screen+Shot+2022-06-08+at+12.09.43+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a80b6f1039da7105c4e03a/256e6086-c04d-491c-965c-621ee2020bb4/27CFDC1A-6AB2-4F1E-9B9E-41F685210075.JPG Home - Everlong WOW! #1! THANK YOU! Connect for your signed copy OR purchase through this link: PURCHASE HERE This is a love story told in dreams and wishes shared in colour, when all things feel possible… A delightful and engaging story, Everlong (Gaelic for “forever”) turns the ordinary day of a child into a myriad of remarkable surprises. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a80b6f1039da7105c4e03a/1628618101693-SKOMSJDAVF4N535DIGTB/IMG_1782+2.JPG Home - She’s my inspiration, my book worm, and my ‘big feeler’. Her ability to move through change with ease is my responsibility, at least for now while she’s little. She’s my everything. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a80b6f1039da7105c4e03a/1622125026982-OPSGMY65LVI1OL26ML1S/24.jpg Home - Working through those BIG feelings; together. We as grown ups have a tough time letting go of our favourite pair of jeans, a car that has seen us through a decade, a favourite armchair, coffee cup, or something that tugs on our heart strings because we’ve shared a memory, a journey or a moment in time with these items. Kiddos have the same feelings but less ability to process them or put them into words. Silver Buttons was written while my daughter was a tiny newborn, in anticipation of her big feelings and free spirit. As parents, we help our little ones move through those feelings a step at a time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a80b6f1039da7105c4e03a/1623769770129-V4G5TG9FX2XFNUUPBHPL/Silver+Buttons+Colouring+Page+1.jpg Home - FREE Downloadable worksheets for your little readers! We need to let kiddos know its OKAY to feel, okay to question and okay to have feelings that are not always great feelings… we also need to help our kiddos learn how to move through them with grace and ease! If we don’t work thought these experiences with them when they are young, they will have to navigate that on their own when they’re older. Let’s give them a headstart and help them to know they are heard, seen and valid! It’s our job as loving parents, teachers and mentors to ensure that our children know they are capable of all things hard. It starts on a very basic level of love and respect and positive communication. Send us proof of purchase and we will email you THREE interactive worksheets that go wonderfully with Silver Buttons! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a80b6f1039da7105c4e03a/1622047493982-VG85JBG23ACR4TGOPOA0/12.jpg Home - Teachers, grab your copy for preschoolers HERE. Children come alive inside when they can relate to a story, a character or feelings that are expressed in ways they may not know how to yet. It is my hope that I can place a copy of Silver Buttons in the hands of all pre-school and early primary classrooms. Offering teachers a platform to talk with their students about the things that may be hard to let go of as we grow…. I offer a 10% savings on copies for teachers. Connect with me directly and I’ll ship out to you promptly. https://www.marciecostello.ca/contact daily 0.75 2021-06-17 https://www.marciecostello.ca/shop-1 daily 0.75 2022-09-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a80b6f1039da7105c4e03a/a5067897-4caf-4561-9ca5-db1a8e78aed7/Screen+Shot+2022-09-21+at+10.24.15+AM.png SHOP - Re-rooted is a fantastic collection of diverse experiences in parenting/co-parenting. Re-rooted shares a collection of stories that cover triumphs and challenges that both form us as parents and plant the seed of love and the meaning of family. Re-rooted is a co-author project featuring Jessica Callery behind the vision and fruition of it’s publication and is available on both Amazon.ca and Amazon.com, as well as in Indigo and Barnes & Noble online catalogs in Canada and the U.S. Re-rooted is a best-selling book. Everlong is available in soft cover and on kindle, and is perfect for rainy day reads with large cups of tea and sleepless nights when you might feel like no one understands your challenges. It’s a book of honesty, connection, and community. Ages; adult. To order, click HERE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a80b6f1039da7105c4e03a/3f880156-2761-4ac5-b4f3-adb9ed52973c/27CFDC1A-6AB2-4F1E-9B9E-41F685210075.JPG SHOP - Everlong s is available directly for print on both Amazon.ca and Amazon.com as well as in both Indigo and Barnes & Noble online catalogs in Canada and the U.S. This beautifully illustrated and magical book made #1 in FIVE categories including children’s literature, new releases, and poetry. Everlong is available in soft cover and hard cover and is perfect for nighttime storytime daytime daydreaming and should be on the shelves in nurseries and school-aged children. Ages newborn -8. To order, click HERE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a80b6f1039da7105c4e03a/1622127563546-IJB0BGPM8W39APE8BYJP/Silver_buttons_trophy%2B2.jpg SHOP - Silver Buttons is available directly for print on both Amazon.ca and Amazon.com as well as in both Indigo and Barnes & Noble online catalogs. Silver Buttons is available in soft cover and hard cover. Silver buttons is available in soft cover and hard cover and is perfect for kiddos that might need that extra hug and encouragement to know that things will actually be okay when it often feels like it won’t. Ages 3-7. To order, click HERE https://www.marciecostello.ca/cognitive-behavioural-therapy-for-children daily 0.75 2021-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a80b6f1039da7105c4e03a/1629479308745-1P5V0L65C6ZIEY3TS0YO/MC+CBT+Kids.png Cognitive behavioural therapy for children https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a80b6f1039da7105c4e03a/1629477847656-2DLDS635CXRLKPPPE306/Untitled-1.png Cognitive behavioural therapy for children - How can you help your kiddos to feel safe and supported in their thoughts? Repetitive thoughts over long periods of time will teach our children to believe or not, to feel safe or not, to be brave or not, and to feel loved or not. Making this one simple adjustment in how you approach your children's developing minds and emotional beliefs and fears that arise will teach them at a very young age how to self manage those feelings and help them turn those negative thoughts into positive thoughts after only moments rather than years of staying stuck in fears and negative self-talk that wasn’t true at all, but rather just what they saw and felt to be. Something as simple as gentle love and guidance like helping them through a big kid choice can teach them they too can do hard things, which really wasn’t so hard after all! The ‘stuck’ happens in not choosing. The fear develops in the “what ifs” and when that happens, we (yes we) develop a self-sabotage agreement with ourselves that tell us “we can’t do this”, “I am not enough”, or “I don’t deserve this”… and we believe that to be true. What happens next? We live a life of our own limiting beliefs and see our struggles and obstacles as part of a story we believe. Then what? Well… we begin to teach our children these same thoughts, without awareness. We begin to show our children through our actions, our hardships, and our words that “success is hard”, “rejection is scary”, “I am unlovable”, “failure is bad”….. Are you hearing me? I’m certain we were all loved dearly by those that raised us, but they too had their own set of limiting beliefs programmed from the ages of 0-7 and if they remained in those limitations and stayed “stuck”, well… then that is how you were raised, and how your children see you, see the world around them and believe it to be true too. Time to get off the mary-go-round and help empower our children to embrace being able to do hard things, to believe in themselves enough to have their own thoughts and boundaries, and to move through life following their desires and callings even if they fail, even if they feel fear because they will be the best version of themselves that can possibly be, with a bit of help from you and me! Hugs, love, and gratitude Marcie xo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a80b6f1039da7105c4e03a/1629478801683-J12K1SJE41C11FD1MDAI/Untitled-2.png Cognitive behavioural therapy for children - Let’s give this amazing power a name! Thought boss! Think tank! Choose Caboose! …. it takes a village.