Pause for Your Helpful Self

Get to Know Your Helpful Self at Home, at School, and in Life

Practice Pause for Your Helpful Self

PAUSE FOR YOUR HELPFUL SELF, at home, school, and in life, is a practice in getting to know Your Helpful Self that is always Safe, Wise, Kind, and Truly Helpful. Become more attentive to Your Helpful Self for direction in what you think, say, and do. Parents, kids, teens, educators, and counselors, Helpful Wisdom is yours to receive with your communications, relationships, activities, situations, and circumstances. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, and whoever you are with, you can choose to Practice The Pause for wiser ways and a better day.

Our Roots, Actions, and Free Sharing

Pause For Inspiration, a nonprofit public charity since 2008, shares our many Pause Practices with parents, kids, teens, educators, counselors, principals, and people of all walks of life, all for free, including materials, as we are able. Schools, community service organizations, healthcare facilities, government institutions, and businesses invite us to share “How to Practice The Pause In Everyday Life”. People quickly connect with what PAUSE is and recognize its usefulness in their daily lives in very practical ways.

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We offer in-person (St. Louis area) classes:

Onsite in our St. Louis Pause classroom
Onsite at your location: school, community center, cultural arts center, nonprofit organization

Online Zoom classes (outside of St. Louis)
Educating parents, kids, teens, educators, and counselors on

“What Is The Pause For Your Helpful Self Practice?”
“How Can Practicing the Pause Truly Help You?”
“Let’s Learn the 4-Step Practice Created for You”
“How Might You Use Pause In Your Everyday Life?”

Follow-up classes to reinforce applying PAUSE, answer questions for clarification, and share experiences.

Recent Pause for Your Helpful Self Happenings

Pause For Your Helpful Self Summer Camp groups ages 5-12 and 13-18 in classrooms at a local community organization serving the underserved.
After-school Pause For Your Helpful Self programming with group ages 5-12 in classrooms at a local cultural arts center.
Contributing free Pause Practice Cards and books for back-to-school to various communities.
Sharing Pause with children, staff, and Maryville University occupational therapy students for a local organization helping kids on the Autism Spectrum
ArchWell Health Wellness Fair sharing The Pause plus free materials
YWCA Family Health Fair sharing The Pause plus free Pause materials
Tornado relief for families and homeless, providing necessary living supplies and Pause materials for encouraging and engaging activities.
Forest Park Community College scholars apply Pause with studies and in life.

Why Does the Pause Approach Stand Out?

PAUSE FOR YOUR HELPFUL SELF focuses not so much on behaviors, though worthwhile behavioral change definitely occurs according to reports from the kids, teens, teachers, and families. Pause Practices aim at increasing awareness of what is going on in one's mind! Rather than falling prey to unhelpful thoughts, reactive emotions, and self-sabotaging behaviors, a child can pause, notice their experience, and choose to Practice the Pause. Encouragement replaces discouragement, attentiveness can replace distraction, and calm can replace chaos. Outcomes are improved with consistent practice and as families Practice The Pause together.

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Ready to bring the power of a simple pause to your school or to your community service organization and those you serve? Get in touch with us to start a conversation about your needs.

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Look at How Pause is Helping Others

Dana Marrocco, Ph.D. Licensed School Psychologist & Author “THE TOP TEN LIES WE TELL OURSELVES, And How to Stop Living Them.”

An empowering action plan for children and the adults who educate and care for them. The message is a reminder that we are never really alone, we always have a choice that brings us together, and that a helpful mindset can yield immediate and conflict-free results. I view the Kids Book as a highly valuable addition across home and school settings. And that children will enjoy putting it into practice.

Jeffrey Taylor Business Community Liaison, St. Louis Job Corps

The Pause Program can make a change in the life of a person. Young or old, experienced or new to this world, Pause teaches you to take a moment and pause to listen, not only listen to the world around you, but to the inner world of your mind and soul. This moment allows you to step back from what is happening, get out of your own way, and have a moment to listen for your inspired mind. Mary from Pause has been coming to our campus for over a year. She teaches the Pause to our students and staff. I have seen a wonderful change in our culture here on campus. I recommend Pause for everyone. If you have a school, a youth group, or a business office that needs to improve performance, Pause is for you.

Karina Crouch Multicultural Coordinator, MPACT

Mary and I have combined our efforts to bring Pause to caregivers of children and youth with disabilities. The people that I serve in the city of St. Louis have the opportunity to find inner strength through Pause with Personal and environmental challenges. I look forward to continuing our combined mission!

Shera Williams Family Advocate YWCA Head Start – Lewis & Clark

One of the parents that met with you, Mary, was excited to use the Kids Book for her children. She started using it with her 9-year-old son to help him regulate his emotions in a healthy way. She has him write down two scenarios a day on how he used the Pause Practice to help with confrontation at school. It’s working she says!

B.K. Father of Seven Daughters

My oldest daughter was having test anxiety in her senior year of school. I gave her a printout of the Pause 4 Decisions and told her to calm down. She was not sure what to do with the 4 Decisions, so I told her to read them right before taking her test. I told her to read them slowly and really take in the steps. Later that day, after school and work had ended, we were sitting around the dining room table and talking about our day. When it was her turn to tell us how her day went, she said, “It went great! After reading the 4 Decisions steps slowly to myself, I went into the classroom to take the test. And you know what? I wasn’t stressed about it or anything! And I think I did really well!” She has since completed high school – top of her class!

Kathy Rusert “Trailblazing Teacher” by Center for Green Schools Science Education Consultant National Outstanding Educator by Project Learning Tree Acorn Elementary, Mena, Arkansas

We hear of violence on school campuses; kids are stressed, teachers are stressed. Spring standardized testing greatly contributes to the stress level for absolutely everyone. Teachers are reading your Pause for Inspiration book and Kids Book and watching the Pause videos, with clips from the website shared during workshops. Teachers are telling me how they’re teaching their kids to use Pause for dealing with life situations. Thank you so much for such a good program and sharing your “goodies” with teachers and staff!

Lisa Postal Clerk

Oh, I use Pause! It has completely transformed by 4-year-old grandson. He was out of control, doing terrible in school. The teacher couldn’t control him, and he had an IEP at 4-years-old! I began practicing Pause, then shared the Parents Can Pause card with my grandson’s teacher and also began sharing about pausing with him. His teacher began using Pause with him as well and he has completely changed. Now at 6-years-old he is well-behaved, doing great in school, and getting all purple stars – that’s the highest color you can get in the classroom!

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The school, Pause for Inspiration, admits students of any race, color, national origin, and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, or ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.