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Why is so much emphasis put on making children successful? Education policy is all about attainment levels and grades. As parents, this can bring huge additional pressures which we can pass on to our children But…Is success really the most important thing or does it increase their vulnerability to mental stress and distress? When we…

Imagine… You wake up one morning and your loved one greets you with, “it’s today!” You can’t make head nor tail of what they are saying at first. Then you remember that you have to go somewhere new today. Getting out of bed, you sense that you don’t have a choice as you WILL be…

Time to embrace change? It’s the 21st century. A time when we have created science and technology to preserve and prolong life. This has been of real benefit to the human race. Being able to keep a premature baby alive so they are able to develop and thrive is wonderful. Likewise, having treatments and surgery…

Last night my good friend Laura Henry messaged me the word trauma? Ant McPartlin ‘arrested on suspicion of drink-driving’ TV presenter reportedly questioned after failing a breathalyser test following London collision. (The Guardian) Laura was posing the right question. What trauma has there been in Ant McPartlin’s life? Why has he been self-medicating with prescription drugs…

How can so many of our children be stressed, hurting themselves, depressed, aggressive, withdrawn, and worrying about anything and everything? What do you think? Is it down to: Media Hype More awareness Less resilient children How children are being raised Something else Have the statistics caused an unhelpful panic? A recent article in the Guardian…

    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…