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Making sense of Lizard Taming, Diva Tongues & Responsibility Backpacks

Hi! We’re Sonya & Chris - a couple from Switzerland.

Neither of us planned this. Somewhere between the two of us, over 15 years, we ended up helping thousands of kids and training almost 900 practitioners across seven countries.

Sonya works with children. And educates. Chris handles the rest.

You can read our story on the About page. This post is just to orient you before you dive in.

Sonya’s craft

Children can rarely explain their struggles in words. But ask them to close their eyes, and they can show you exactly what’s going on inside.

That’s where Sonya works. In the child’s own imagination.

The child’s inner world is the raw material. What Sonya does with it is the craft. She reads and engages what’s there. And then introduces the right image, character, or reframe to shift it.

That’s where the metaphors like Diva Tongue, Hero Syringes, or Responsibility Backpacks come from.

One character specifically has become central to our work.

The Lizard — the part of the brain responsible for fight, flight or freeze.

Helping children understand and calm their lizard evolved into one of our most powerful techniques.

And that’s why this publication is called LizardTamer.

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A fascinating window into children’s inner worlds

We’ve been quietly working for 15 years. Now we’re sharing what we’ve seen.

Stories from real sessions. Including the ones that didn’t go as planned. Every case is anonymised. Many include drawings the children made themselves.

We’ll also share interesting insights and observations from 10’000 sessions.

If you work with children and feel the pull to learn this, there’s a page for that.

If you’re a parent whose child has a problem nobody has been able to explain, there’s a page for that too.

Of course, you’re also welcome to just read.

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