Goldie Hawn Launches New Audio Track to Combat Child Anxiety

Children’s sleep and mindfulness app, Moshi Twilight, has partnered once again with Hollywood legend Goldie Hawn to launch a new ‘Brain Break’ to help families around the world improve the mental wellbeing of their kids and reduce anxiety during worrying times.

Put together by the BAFTA award-winning Moshi team, Goldie’s Brain Break is an important resource that can be used by parents to help stabilize emotional thinking and help kids refocus when there is a need to bring balance and reduce family stress.  Recorded with the Moshi team, this Brain Break is a short wind-down exercise—set to calming music—that takes heightened emotions down to a sense of calm.

Anxiety in children is continuously on the rise, affecting 30 percent of children and adolescents, yet 80 percent never get help according to Child Mind Institute. As the current coronavirus outbreak creates more uncertainty and stress, this growing issue is affects millions of families around the world.

“Feelings can be overwhelming sometimes, especially for children who haven’t learned how to react and respond to them,” said Dr. Azizi Seixas, a sleep expert and psychologist. “Managing emotions, even more so during stressful situations, can be difficult regardless of age. This is especially true when routines are disrupted. Routines play a key role in promoting feelings of safety and security in children and when boundaries are broken they can feel more vulnerable and unsettled.”

As part of her philanthropic work, Hawn is actively committed to empowering children and families through acts of mindfulness, and has also lent her voice to a Moshi bedtime story, “Goldie the Mindful Moshling,” which has already been listened to millions of times by kids around the world.

Hawn shared the news of the launch of her Brain Break in the Moshi app with her 2.1M Instagram followers.

“In these times of uncertainty and fear, it is important to calm your brain to help reduce stress and anxiety,” Hawn said. “Please enjoy this Brain Break with your child and your family every day.”

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In these times of uncertainty and fear, it is important to calm your brain to help reduce stress and anxiety. Please enjoy this brain break with your child and your family every day. The brain break is part of our @mindup curriculum – it is an act of mindfulness to bring balance, reduce stress and create more mental fitness for ourselves and for our children. ❤️ Please visit @twilightmoshi to get this free brain break (and a really fun sleep story I narrated) on their app 🌙

A post shared by Goldie Hawn (@goldiehawn) on Mar 19, 2020 at 3:41pm PDT

CEO of Moshi Twilight, Ian Chambers said, “School closures, self-isolation and quarantine is unfortunately becoming an unavoidable part of our everyday vocabulary and behaviour, and even as adults, the feelings associated with this are overwhelming.  We hope that Goldie’s Brain Break will help families achieve a sense of calm during moments of stress and anxiety.”

Goldie’s Brain Break is free to use on iOS, Android and Amazon Fire and is now part of the Moshi Twilight app that has read over 75 million stories since launch.  The Moshi Twilight app also includes: Moshi Stories, Guided Meditations, Moshi Moments, Music and Sounds to help kids wind down, relax, de-stress and sleep.

“All children in the world are our most precious resource for a happier, healthier tomorrow,” Hawn said. “They deserve all we can give them to thrive and succeed in this sometimes challenging world.”