5 Tips to Avoiding Meltdowns
Meltdowns are a sign of overwhelm. This blogs gives 5 ways you can help your child regulate, explaining why they work in context of their nervous system.
What Is Self Esteem & Why Is It Important
This blog accompanies my FREE self-esteem download that you can do with your children, explaining what self-esteem is and why it’s important. This blog gives you a foundation of knowledge to underpin your intentions to help maintain or improve your children’s self-esteem.
What Influences Resilience?
Life can be very challenging, in this blog we look at what can both positively and negatively impact our resilience.
What Does It Mean To Be Resilient
We often hear the world resilient, but what does it mean and what does it mean for yours and/or your children’s lives?
Why Anger Is A Positive Emotion
Anger is often referred to as a negative emotion but I think there are two sides to every emotion. In this blog I discuss why anger can be positive and why it’s healthy to feel and express it.
How To Model Anger, & Why You Should
This blog offers useful perspectives on anger and how we can support our children’s developing relationship with it.
8 Strategies For Helping Your Anxious Child
When I speak with parents and carers about their child’s anxiety, the parent/carer is rarely without anxiety about their child’s anxiety. “What do I need to do to help them?” “Am I making it worse?” are familiar questions. In this blog I give 8 strategies which, when used consistently, can promote emotional awareness, communication and reduced worry and fear; for the parents, carers and children
Anxiety Basics
Anxiety is spoken of a lot, but do you really understand what it is? In this blog I cover some of the anxiety basics to help develop your awareness and to facilitate the next stage; management.
Day-To-Day Strategies To Positively Impact Your Children’s Anxiety
Sometimes we think it’s the children that need to change how they respond to life, but there are ways which we as parents can make changes that will have a positive impact on how our children function with emotions i.e. anxiety
Family Crest Activity
This is a fabulous activity to do with the whole family or with individual children. With a little creativity, it can be a really useful tool, whatever your aim. I have explained how to use the tool and have given some examples of how I may use it too. Make sure you get information like this by signing up to my newsletter for parents and carers!
Is My Partner Emotionally Abusive?
If you’re concerned that your relationship, or that of a loved one, is emotionally abusive, in this blog I share some of the content I wrote for Teen Vogue; using my 12 years experience of supporting women and children survivors of domestic abuse.