Self Care for Parents Week Three: Exercise Motivation If you are an avid exerciser then you probably don’t need this article for inspiration. However if you are like me, then learning more about the positive effects of exercise on brain and mood, has been an absolute game changer[…]

Self Care for Parents Week Two: Invest in Your Relationships I’ve recently been reading an amazing book. The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Study on Happiness by Robert Waldinger and Marc Schlutz summarises the findings of Harvard Study of Adult Development. This is a research study which[…]

Self Care for Parents Week One: Let’s Get Outside Yes I know that the weather, at least where I am in Newcastle, hasn’t been great but there are some really good, scientifically proven reasons, to plan to spend more time out and about in nature. Fancy a quick[…]

You Can’t Pour From an Empty Cup… In the event of an emergency on an aeroplane there is a reason why parents have to be told to put their own oxygen masks on first. And there is also a reason why this message is still repeated every single[…]

School transitions are a subject close to my heart right now as my eldest hurtles towards the end of Year 6 and makes the leap into the scary world of BIG SCHOOL. At the moment she is excited, which is great. But I have no doubt that there[…]

  Should you be worried about your child’s anxiety? The simple answer is that it all depends what you are going to do with your worries. Sometimes a single conversation can really bring an issue into sharp focus. This happened to me a couple of years ago when[…]

NLP stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming. So what does that mean then? Basically it uses research and long-standing knowledge of processes relating to the human mind and body to develop therapeutic techniques to support people to make positive changes to their situation. The underlying assumptions centre around the[…]