This is the fourth episode in a series of shorts produced by Films4Change around a young girl called Ness who learns to identify and manage her feelings through her conversations with various Australian animals.

Today Ness talks to wombat, beautifully voiced and characterised by actor Leofric Kingsford-Smith, about her feelings around having to clean her room and her mum calling her cranky and lazy.

Mel and I again discuss the importance of acknowledging and affirming a child's feelings as well as talking around how adults labelling and name-calling children (i.e cranky/lazy etc) can be counter-productive as well as being genuinely hurtful. 

This scene ends in such a lovely way too - with Ness giving wombat her own advice about how to clean his burrow :) Tasks can be so much easier when we tackle them with joyfulness rather than resentment !

I hope you enjoy this podcast; thank you all so much for listening. If you'd like to contact me you can find me at mail@janbaylisscounselling.com.au. - I'd love to hear from you. And if you have a moment please do rate and review

The entire Ness series is available online free of charge via the Films4Change Youtube channel at

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpC1QlguAvUvya4O9TpZpfRqyRfmmGrvd

This podcast was recorded at Studio Kreadiv, Central Coast NSW, Australia by the team at Films4ChangeInc.

https://studiokreadiv.com

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