Make a Safe Place for Your Child’s Emotions

A child’s feelings can be scary, like an uncontrolled and uncontrollable beast. For this reason, when kids are very young, one of the first things they are told is to tame this beast – to stop crying, to contain their anger, to calm down. Later, when some of our kids...

Is Gaming the New Pill?

“Where there is play, there is also meaning,” explained Johan Huizinga, a Dutch historian way back in 1938 in his book ‘Homo Ludens.’ Still today, play is one of the primary formative elements in human culture. Its importance in both learning and providing...

Announcing Our Upcoming Digital Game!

At Digging Deep, we understand like so many of you that “healing” requires more than just making the body better.  It requires that young people sift through their emotional experience to uncover a way of incorporating the trauma of illness into their...

In Praise of Predictability

  Though too much routine can become humdrum, a plan for days, weeks and months can help families dealing with chronic illness impose at least a little order on what can otherwise be pretty chaotic lives. I know it well! As the mom of a young man with autism and...