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Face-to-face bullying is on the decrease which is great news … BUT cyberbullying is rife. The worse thing is that it is usually anonymous - which is doubly unsettling. The bullying statistics are alarming. A while back Guardian recently reported that more than half of...

The world has changed. We are bringing up our children in a very different environment from that of our own childhood. As a result, many parents are worried as to whether the advice and support that they are offering their child is in fact correct. How can they be...

Anyone who is well versed in betrayal is likely to have experienced a seismic shift in not only how they start to see themselves - but also in their new vision of the world. Perhaps you find it difficult to trust others again; Maybe you shield yourself from entering...

This is a podcast first for me : chatting with two inspiring young ladies! Many parents, when trying to monitor their child’s tech usage, do so from a place of fear. It’s not their fault, it’s just that they have not grown up in the digital age, so they are not really...

This week ( November 1st - 7th 2021 ) is International Stress Awareness Week. Somewhere along the line, we have learned to normalize the stresses that we are facing - and as a result, our minds and bodies are often running in a state of high alert. In this episode, I...

This crazy old world can be very overwhelming sometimes - no matter what age you are; and I know from experience that we need to take care of our health (mentally and physically). It’s too easy to forget about ourselves - whilst we continue to spin plates and react to...

Many parents feel under so much pressure to ‘Keep up with the Joneses’. Whether it’s the continuous cycle of after-school activities - ferrying kids from Cubs to Swimming to Piano … Or ensuring that the house is pristine and all the laundry is neatly stowed away - the...

As adults, we carry around with us many unresolved events and issues that, upon reflection, shape the way we behave as adults. Loss, betrayal, fear, trauma (to name but a few)… all take their turn in determining particular limiting beliefs and coloring our values. Our...

A month into the school term - and many parents are telling me that things are getting harder rather than easier. Are you a parents who’s child is struggling to get into school? Are you worried that you are being too hard on your child? Or conversely, not hard enough?...