You can’t cheat the history of your body But you can understand and work with it. Because although the body isn’t designed to forget what it lives through and stores memories in its cells and muscles of experiences. Especially of perceived threat. It is there as a resource to manage its reactions to…

How are you? Really…HOW ARE YOU? As 2018 is well underway, I hope you are well and feeling ready for a great year ahead. What is your focus of 2018? Your fitness, health, diet, to travel more, stress-less? Mine is very much on share ways to boost everyone’s wellness and resilience. As, every time I…

  Did you do breathing, meditating, yoga or mindfulness when you were in preschool or school? Neither did I. In hindsight, do you think it would it have been useful? Maybe it would have equipped us for the pressures of life and onward journey through adolescence and into adulthood. Either way, I am glad there…

At home or at work most of us have that draw! It’s the one we just shove everything and anything into that might come in useful. Over time it gets messier and messier and finding anything in it becomes a real challenge. It often stresses us out and irritates us so we cope by: Keeping…

This week I saw media articles proclaiming that 2-year-old Princess Charlotte will be starting at nursery full-time in January, she will be three in May. My first thought was WHY? What is there for her there that would be better for her than being at home with her loved ones? Its website describes it as…

  Recently parents have been asking me whether anxiety in children can make them physically sick. The short answer is YES. Anxiety is a whole-body and brain experience and can trigger the following reactions in the body if it happens too often for too long. Feeling and being sick Diarrhoea and constipation Neck, shoulder, back…

School can be a place to exhale and feel safe Many children have complex home lives. Parents and carers doing their best in most cases but often juggling too much for too long with their emotional and physical needs unmet, sometimes since birth. Trying to function and raise children in a time of scarce resources…

Living with a child whose trauma is emerging takes many things. Emotional resilience and availability, the capacity to be hit, spat at, have objects thrown at you, to hear awful things from the child, compassion, calmness the list goes on and on. Especially as it often triggers our own trauma so that is an additional…

What’s going on? Highlighted across all forms of media are stories about the rising numbers of children suffering from a range of mental illness. Alongside this are stories of schools using shaming tactics in the name of behavior management. This is NOT a coincidence. Ironically mental illness and shame have a close relationship. Shame induces fear…