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Overcome Bullying : Top Tips for Parents
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...
Addressing the Common Pressures that Teens are Facing featuring Matt Douglas
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...
Overcoming Betrayal and Learning to Trust Again featuring Dr Debi Silber
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...
Using Technology the “Right Way” featuring Kirsten & Aiyven Mbawa
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...
How to Manage Stress
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...
Finding the Right Wellbeing Tools for You and Your Child featuring Samantha Bernice
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...
You Don’t Have to Run Yourself Ragged featuring Mary Broddle
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...
Walking to the Beat of Your Own Drum
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...
How to Deal with Anxieties & School Refusal featuring Cai Graham
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?...
It’s OK not to have it all together featuring Cai Graham
September is a time of year where we usually feel energised and motivated into kickstarting our lives after the summer. However, for many of us at the moment, this new found enthusiasm is being rather elusive. Are you feeling the same? This week I was going to pack it...