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Why understanding the impact of children’s trauma makes them safer
Why understanding the impact of children’s trauma makes them safer 150 150 Jane Evans

We take for granted that anyone working with children must attend Safeguarding Training to understand the signs, indications and procedures to protect all children from abuse. Likewise First Aid Training is essential too but what about training to understand the impact of childhood trauma and what it does to a child? Should this be the…

A Voice for the voiceless victims of domestic violence and abuse – what Women and Children Post Domestic Violence need everyone to understand
A Voice for the voiceless victims of domestic violence and abuse – what Women and Children Post Domestic Violence need everyone to understand 150 150 Jane Evans

For over 2 decades I have worked, sometimes knowingly, and at other times, unknowingly with women and children living with, or beyond domestic violence. I have worked with a very few male victims so I don’t feel I can really be their voice as I don’t have the depth of experience but hopefully they will…

Let’s not sprinkle ACEs everywhere!
Let’s not sprinkle ACEs everywhere! 150 150 Jane Evans

Professor Mark Bellis, Director of Policy, Research and International Development in Public Health Wales said: “So many of the health problems we see in adults have their roots in childhood.” It IS time for ACEs! Not before time, adversity in childhood is finally being seen as having clear, well-evidenced long-term implications for adult mental and…

Why doTERRA Essential Oils ARE essential!
Why doTERRA Essential Oils ARE essential! 150 150 Jane Evans

Why I LOVE doTERRA Oils! doTERRA is from a Latin derivative meaning “Gift of the Earth”. I began using doTERRA oils on 20th January 2016, I haven’t stopped yet as from that day forward I have felt emotionally and physically more robust, able and well! Robust – my nervous system and brain often get overwhelmed…

Trauma Parenting on Radio 4
Trauma Parenting on Radio 4 150 150 Jane Evans

I consider myself to be an optimistic person and grateful person, mostly! I am truly grateful every day of my life for a wide range of things, such as, I get to live another day as at times this seemed unlikely. In the spirit of ‘being optimistic’, there are times when I REALLY believe that…

How do I get to do what you do?
How do I get to do what you do? 150 150 Jane Evans

How, what, where, when? Every so often I am asked the following questions about my journey to being an Anxiety Coach, an International Speaker, a Trauma Parenting Specialist, a Trainer, an Author, oh and how to get on to TV and to get to do a TED Talk: What qualifications do you have? What training have…

Coaching creates and nurtures connection
Coaching creates and nurtures connection 150 150 Jane Evans

Craving a coach! Having been self-employed for around 4 years and going from strength to strength through sheer dogged determination and by going down more dead end roads than should be allowed, I reached a place when every fibre of my being screamed “you need a coach!” It didn’t happen right away, patience being something…

Sometimes I don’t know what to do….
Sometimes I don’t know what to do…. 150 150 Jane Evans

I am on a writing break on the beautiful island of  in the Canary Islands. Its a chilled out kind of place, plenty of surfers, older people and families. I have been working until around 2 p.m. most days and then I head out to walk along the beaches and generally mooch about usually ending…

Cameron advises us to ‘control our children’…..what an arse!!
Cameron advises us to ‘control our children’…..what an arse!! 150 150 Jane Evans

A word form the not so wise!! The man who left his child in a pub and drove away is dispensing advice on how WE should raise our children so we had better pay attention?! Unfortunately, he is also the man at the head of our country’s elected government so if he says we all…

How comfortable are we that parenting often relies upon ‘coercive control’
How comfortable are we that parenting often relies upon ‘coercive control’ 150 150 Jane Evans

Living with coercive control Daily life with someone you fear upsetting is extremely stressful and can make you ill, irrational, rely on self-medication and diminishes you as a person. Having experienced coercive control in some of my adult relationships, and having worked with numerous women and children who have, I am glad to see a…