Bressie to help launch new RTÉjr Radio series for kids

RTÉjr is launching a new radio series, 'The Kids Are All Right!' for children that’s all about health, happiness and wellness with the aid of mental health advocate Bressie.

Michelle and her puppet co-presenters, Buster & Buddy, are on a mission to help kids feel great and live happy. In the first episode of the series they will chat with musician, children’s author, podcaster and mindfulness expert Niall Breslin aka Bressie about what mental health really means and how mindfulness can help us to stay well.

Bressie explains that mental health is how we feel and think; it’s our emotions and feelings that can’t really be seen, but which affect us every day.

He discusses how in the same way as our physical health changes, sometimes we are fitter than other times; our mental health is always changing too and this is completely normal; so it is important to realise that we don’t have to be happy all the time to have good mental health, there’s room for all the emotions.

Bressie explains that just like our physical health, we can train our minds to stay mentally fit by using Mindfulness. He teaches a few simple Mindfulness tricks that anyone can use anytime and anywhere to feel calm, as he believes it is really important to have some tools to help us feel better.

Buster and Buddy speak with experts who provide the best advice to help children deal with life’s challenges, as well as hearing directly from children across the country on the topic of the day in their Kids Squad Panel.

They question the guests from childrens' perspective; asking the kinds of questions that kids want to know, with helpful takeaway tools they can use to live well in their everyday lives.

Covering everything from how to get to sleep easier to being the boss of their worries…from the importance of eating healthy and exercise to building their resilience to help them deal with the hard things in life, to bullying; basically Anything and Everything that affects kids’ sense of happiness and wellness.

Niall Breslin is one of Ireland’s most formidable and inspiring mental health advocates and public speakers. Bressie's personal experience has informed his journey to becoming a leading figure in mindfulness. He started the Where is My Mind podcast to explore how we can better look after our heads in the chaos of the modern world.

The new radio series will officially launch this Friday, September 9 on RTÉjr Radio at 7pm and is also available as a podcast by searching 'The Kids Are All Right RTE' on Spotify.