Join us for an insightful conversation with Kay Reeve. She is an Emotional Awareness Expert. Kay clearly shows how emotions affect sleep quality and much more. She explains that emotions are not just conscious feelings. Instead, emotions work at a subconscious level. They are even active during sleep, helping our body function. In fact, emotions impact everything from our breathing to our dreams. This deeply influences our overall emotional health.
Discover how understanding the human emotional cycle can help you. You will learn about its four core emotions. This knowledge empowers you with practical emotional regulation techniques. Therefore, you can navigate life's challenges more easily. You will find relaxation, manage stress, and relieve anxiety. Furthermore, you can cultivate happiness on your own terms.
Kay shares her personal journey. For example, she helped her son cope with depression. From this experience, she created a powerful framework. This framework teaches how to recognize and redirect your emotional states. Ultimately, this offers crucial sleep tips for better rest.
This discussion will give you key insights. You will learn about managing emotions for better sleep. Discover how to drive your emotions, rather than letting them drive you. This leads to a calmer, happier, and more restorative life. Explore the power of mindfulness for emotional balance and sleep. Then, unlock strategies for truly restful sleep.
Watch the full video to transform your understanding of emotions. Consequently, you will find a clear path to superior sleep and holistic emotional well-being!
Thank you to Yewande Ralph of the Natural Fragrance Company, and Better Sleep Clinic, for inviting me to talk about Emotional Awarneess for healthy sleep.
In March 2017 I took a massive step, sharing my Emotional Cycle diagram with the world for the first time. Not only was it the first time, but it was LIVE on stage. I gave a TEDx Talk about Tackling Teenage Depression at TEDxNorwichED.
The talk 'Tackling Teenage Depression' was in front of an audience of 300 people from the Educational Sector, and Live on YouTube. It was uploaded permanently in April, and is still growing today.
Giving such a monumental speech gave me the opportunity to share the back story of my son, plus my journey as a mother. It shares the reason I became and Emotional Awareness Author, although the book came later in December 2022.
Each year around April, I check in on how the talk is doing. Not because the views matter in numbers, but because it inspires me to keep going. I like knowing that the talk is still helping and inspiring other parents and teens. The numbers are the only way I know, plus the amazing comments left over recent years.
To see the TEDx Talk, view above or go to YouTube at: Tackling Teenage Depression
My talk was far from viral as I was an unknow speaker. The rate my talk is still growing shows how much the message was needed. This just proving how it still inspires people years forward.
The talk, titled "Tackling Teenage Depression", took one year to reach the first thousand views and that was double what I expected. The talk on YouTube started slow but hasd grown in strength, year on year. Six years to the day - it reached 46,000 views and counting.
I will update the list below, each year it reaches a big milestone. When this talk stops growing, I know it's time to plan another speech.
Updates of Video Views
2018 1000 views
2021 10,000 views
2023 46,000 views
2024 60,000 views
Remember that leaving a comment, like, or sharing, helps the algorithms share the talk with more people who need to see it. It is not just sharing the video, it is sharing ideas and sharing hope.
To get support that works, and learn this strategy for your teen or young adult, book onto one of my workshops, or check out the online courses available on this site.
How do you explain emotions to someone who cannot really understand them? That was the question that Kay faced with her son when she realized he had Asperger's Syndrome and that his pent up emotions were getting the best of him.
Join us to learn more about how emotions can be experienced through color and positions together, and how Kay could transform an incredibly challenging position, living with depression and suicide, into a thriving life. Watch the video to find out more about her Emotional Awareness Tool...
The podcast is available on YouTube at: Emotional Awareness Tool for Teens and Parents
Kay Reeve is an Emotional Awareness Expert, TEDx Speaker on Tackling Teenage Depression, and the author of Brain Unchained - Emotional Awareness for Teenagers
Michelle Greenwell is a Tai Chi and dance teacher with a focus on wellbeing through movement. She is closely linked with the Jesse Lewis, Choose Love movement. It is an incredible social movement that educates children across America - to choose love instead of gun crimes.
Watch more interviews from the Media page, or go to my own video podcast with wellbeing therapists, supporters, authors, and speakers, on the YouTube playlist 52 week Discussions.
I chose to use the start of lockdown as a positive time to inspire others through my videos. I started by doing 28 days live with guests each day. It was a success, but intense. Rather than just stopping, I moved on to recording weekly meetings on the 52 week discussion. I had my own health issues in 2021, resulting in the series ending early at 38 episodes. These episodes are still available to view.
How to Help Teens Understand Themselves is a podcast with Brian Miller professional speaker, author, TEDx Speaker, coach, and magician, who had created a series of interview based on pivotal moments throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
This is a story of hope and inspiration as Brian Miller hears Kay share her own pivotal moments in her personal life, and how that links back to the work she has been preparing for the previous six years. She also shares the struggles with her own son's suicidal depression and Asperger's, for many years and how it inspires her work.
Available on YouTube: Emotional Awareness Tool for Teens and Parents
Available on Apple Podcast as: Talking to Depressed Teens - with Kay Reeve
I watched Brian's TEDx Talk with my son, around the time I was developing my Emotional Cycle Diagram. We laughed at how my son and Brian looked alike, but my son was impressed with Brian's message and speech delivery, as much as his magic talent used during his speech.
Brian Miller's TEDx Talk: How to Magically Connect with Anyone with an incredible 3.6m views.
When I was ready to prepare my own TEDx Talk, I reached out to Brian on Twitter, to ask if I could reference his talk, and use his photo during my talk. To my surprise, he replied. 'Of course'.
After my talk in March 2017, I sent Brian the link to Tackling Teenage Depression now on YouTube.
What happened next, blew me away. I would have been happy with a quick reply, but this is Brian Miller. Human Connections Expert. I'm an Emotional Awareness Expert. We both seem to have created titles for topics that no one else really teaches the way we do. Anyway...
Brian sent me a link to yet another video. It was his weekly blog about his magic, his music, his speaking career, and about eight minutes in, a Reaction video to my TEDx Talk! Click the link to see it.
It was 2021 before we connected again during lockdown for the Pivotal Point interview above - How to help teens understand themselves. We still comment to each other occasionally on Linked In or YouTube, and have definitely made a Human Connection, even though we have never met in person.
Watch more interviews from the Media page, or go to my own video podcast with wellbeing therapists, supporters, authors, and speakers, on the YouTube playlist 52 week Discussions.
I chose to use the start of lockdown as a positive time to inspire others through my videos. I started by doing 28 days live with guests each day. It was a success, but intense. Rather than just stopping, I moved on to recording weekly meetings on the 52 week discussion. I had my own health issues in 2021, resulting in the series ending early at 38 episodes. These episodes are still available to view.
See Kay Reeve's interview below, originally recorded live on Facebook with HHM - Harrow Health Matters Group about emotional awareness for parenting teens. Kay talks with Jeff Laming about her colourful strategy of the emotional cycle and how she came to design the diagram, shown on screen.
Jeff Laming of the Omega-3 zone talks with Kay about her book Brain Unchained. They discuss the stresses that Kay went through, helping her son recover from teenage depression. Kay also explains what it was like parenting a teenager with suicidal depression. She shares how she found hope, and developed strategies to help others, by helping her son. Watch the video here...
The replay is available to watch on YouTube: Emotional Awareness for Parenting Teens
Kay Reeve is an emotional awareness expert, author of several books on emotions and mindfulness, and a TEDx Speaker on Tackling Teenage Depression. Kay focuses on helping parents and teenagers, with the struggles of teen depression. Her focus expands to mindfulness, as parents need coping strategies too.
Jeff Laming, speaking on behalf of Harrow Health Matters, is a marketing video creator and an advocate for Omega-3 oils for health benefits. Jeff talks about the Omega-3 Zone in Kay's podcast series, available on YouTube. View here
Kay Reeve, author from the UK, is here to tell us about her book Brain Unchained. Discover a powerful tool for shining a torch on teenage depression, and lighting the way to emotional awareness in teenagers and young adults. This is super, super important in today's world. Hear how Kay turned to drawing the emotional cycle to help her son, and ended up writing a book.
ADHD - Kay and Janna also discuss having ADHD in this episode, and how this affects or supports them in their work and life.
Janna provides an incredible insight in this podcast, to the complexities of broken families. She talks of maintaining relationships with parents, step parents, siblings, step siblings and half siblings.
Papercraft Miracles - Janna loves running her wellbeing podcast alongside her craft business, modelling flowers from paper. Find out more about Papercraft Miracles.
Kay Reeve - Author & TEDx speaker, ran her own video podcast for 39 episodes in 2021, about emotional wellbeing. She started her video adventures while writing her first book. It was a 28 day live video lineup with guest speakers, during the second lockdown.
Learn more in the podcast above about how this diagram helps raise emotional awareness, in teenagers, young adults, and adults.
Dr. Jacalyn Kerbeck on Business Talk Radio interviews Kay Reeve on on Hope, Inspiration, and Overcoming Adversity. Her channel is Rapping with Dr. Jacalyn, running 14 shows a day on stories of human triumph.
Emotional Awareness Expert Kay, shares her story of raising her son through teenage and suicidal depression. She tells how she overcame adversity, maintained hope that her son would be ok, and developed her own way of helping her son.
She has now shared this with the world in her book Brain Unchained.
Available on YouTube: Featuring Kay Reeve
Dr. Jacalyn Kerbeck started her own news station on YouTube and other channels, in 2020. She began with 14 shows a day, across several channels, suited to different audiences. Stories of Hope, Inspiration & Overcoming Adversity is the channel that hosted the interview linked above with Kay Reeve.
Kay Reeve is an author & TEDx Speaker who overcame the adversity of her son's suicidal depression, creating a strategy to teach emotional awareness. She now offers hope with her book Brain Unchained - Emotional Awareness for Teenagers & Young Adults. Her book also contains parent toolbox tips for those parents that want to help their teens through these difficult times.
Do you ever find yourself in a situation where you know that your child is struggling? But the thing is, often they don’t want to talk to you about it OR they cannot verbalize what’s going on in their head - because to be honest, they have no idea how to make sense of it themselves. Find out more about developing emotional awareness in Episode 47 of The Parent & Teen Toolbox podcast.
Listen to the podcast here > Developing Emotional Awareness
Go to Brain Unchained - self-help book for teenagers and young adults.
Cai Graham is a therapist and author of The Teen Toolbox. She focuses on teenagers and parenting teens in her private practice, plus raising her own teenagers.
Kay Reeve is the author of Brain Unchained - Emotional Awareness for Teenagers and TEDx Speaker on Tackling Teenage Depression
Folk Features posted Kay's first article about the launch of Darker than Dark, and her journey with depression. Darker than Dark is a mindfulness book about finding light after dark. Inspiration in colour, photos, poetry, and mindfulness, to help inspire recovery. Kay's latest book, launched in 2023.
Read the full article here at Folk Features: Finding Light after Dark
Synopsis for Darker than Dark - Mindfulness Book
Purchase Darker than Dark on Amazon
Emotional Awareness Author Kay Reeve, talks about her book launch for Brain Unchained, and how she achieved it 'virtually' using StreamYard during lockdown. She was later invited to do a Spotlight interview with StreamYard presenters Dana & Kelsey, to share with other authors, how she achieved her launch during restrictive times.
When Kay heard about the Spotlight, and saw how other people were using the recording software, she reached out to say how it was helping her as an author.
Here are some of the images of the day including Kay with her new book, the inside cover, and live music online. There was a full lineup of events online from 9am to 9pm and a great day all round.
Go to Kay's YouTube Channel to see the full launch day playlist including interviews, updates, live music, and a rare video of Kay chatting to her son online during lockdown about Brain Unchained. Hear about their journey together, and how he supports Kay's work.
