The Importance of an Emotionally Available Adult to a Trauma-Affected Child
I look at a child and think, ‘What’s happened to you?’ rather than ‘What’s wrong with you?’
The Trick of Scary Thinking
With Halloween just around the corner, I thought it was a good time to write something about ‘scary thinking.’ 🎃 Scary thinking can show up in many forms: it can be dark, obsessive intrusive thoughts that might involve being harmful to others (it’s common for post-partum women to experience this) or …
Anxiety: Five Ways to Support Your Child
It’s normal for us to feel anxious from time to time. In fact, it’s a necessity. Anxiety helps to keep us safe. It alerts us to potential dangers i…
A Case of Mistaken Identity
We grow up thinking that the thoughts that we have about ourselves are who we actually are. These thoughts are shaped by many things – our parents, family, friendships, school, the communities we are a part of etc. But this ‘me’ who we think is ‘me’ is not ‘me’ at …
Leave Your Emotions Alone!
There’s this misconception that we must ‘manage’ our emotions and that some emotions are ok, but others aren’t. Why? Why do we feel it is wrong to show some emotions and not others and why do we think we have to manage them? Emotions are literally Energy in Motion. Left …
We’re Different Expressions of the Same Energy
The basis of what I share focuses on ourselves as part of nature. We are not separate from it, but an expression of it, in the same way that an eagle, a flower, a bee, a lion, a mushroom, every living thing, are all individual expressions of nature too. When …
You Don’t Need to Feel Motivated to Take Action
A golfing friend of mine commented once about how he hadn’t felt motivated to practise over the last week or so. My response to him was, ‘you don’t have to feel inspired or motivated to take action.’ Something I’ve started noticing a lot more for myself recently. He messaged me …
The Weather of Our Emotions
When I’m working with children, I use a very simple analogy of the weather to help them understand how human emotions work. So all humans are born perfectly psychologically well. This might seem like a radical idea, but as I’ve said before, have you ever seen a depressed baby? Our …
Our Infinite Potential
When we are born, we’re a bundle of pure potential. A blank slate. A spark of infinite light connected to the source from which we came. Between the ages of 0-2 we start to distinguish ourselves from the world around us. Our actions help us to do that…such as shaking …
Grounded in the Midst of a Storm
The pressures of today’s society can leave us feeling overwhelmed and exhausted as we juggle work, family and social lives. Sometimes we simply can’t keep those plates spinning and it feels like the world is falling apart around us. Specific events can impact us too; the death of a loved …