Delta Behavioral Health

This has been on my mind a lot lately as I have had this conversation with so many folks-

Here is my take on why it can be harmful to believe or state that everyone is a little bit _________.

Isn’t Everyone a Little Bit… — Delta Behavioral Health Why it can be harmful to insinuate that everyone is a little bit ADHD/Autistic/etc.

What's that you say? April 1st? Delta Behavioral Health opened ONE year ago today! No fooling!

I have learned so much in the past year, but more importantly, I am grateful to have been able to help so many families.

I have connected with PDA North America - Pathological Demand Avoidance to provide valuable information and webinars on supporting PDA kiddos in school, including one today! (I'll post a link in the comments once it's available!)

I look forward to the future and finding ways to help more families, and kiddos alike, feel heard, understood, and most of all, accepted.

At Delta I strive to meet every child where they are at- offering them the ability to choose when and how to engage with me. I am a stranger in a strange place. They get to control the interaction-- if and when they are comfortable. And when they choose to let me see them, truly see them, it is a beautiful thing. ❤️

For the PDA child, it is most helpful to offer choice, while avoiding asking them to choose.

What does this mean?

It means being open to flexibility and change.

It means offering consistent openness and receptiveness to dynamic, evolving, fluctuating needs that are driven by a constantly shifting nervous system response, highly attuned to the ever changing landscape of life.

Choice is the offering with love, and without condition.

Asking them to choose is the condition.

Choice is saying "Yep, I got you..", and refraining from expecting them to choose is the "Yeah, I'm serious. I'm here, I'm committed and you are not obligated to take me up on my offerings."

It is absence of demand attached to the offer.

Unconditional.

Safety.

-KF