One of the difficulties that so many of my young people are sharing with me at the moment are difficulties with sleep. Whether it is struggling to get to sleep, waking up through the night unable to fall back to sleep or just feeling constantly tired sleep problems can be incredibly frustrating. It makes sense …
The current situation is so unique, ever changing and raising so many different emotional responses I wanted to provide you will some thoughts on how you might be able to support your children’s emotional wellbeing duing this time of uncertainty. How might my child react? Just as, as adults, we have experienced a huge aray …
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.” ~Buddha What are affirmations? Affirmations are positive words or phrases that we say out loud as a way of training the brain. They help us to challenge and fight back against negative thoughts that …
After weeks and weeks of build up, Christmas is finally just around the corner. For me, I think I’ve just about got everything in place and I’m looking forward to seeing the faces on my little ones as they realise that Santa has finally been! I know though that Christmas can also bring huge amounts …
It’s so hard when you know that your child is feeling worried or anxious but nothing that you are trying is relieving the feelings. This blog provides my 3 step approach to developing a shared language and understanding of your child’s worries working towards beating the ‘worry monster’. In my practice, I regularly meet families …
One of our craft activities this summer was creating worry bead chains. In my preparation for the class I was fascinated by some of the history to the use of beads, so I thought I’d do a whole blog post on it! Beads have been used historically all around the globe. They have been used …
So here it is, the final week of the mindfulness summer challenge. I hope you have found the ideas and suggestions in this summer’s blog helpful and it has enabled you to find just a few more mindful moments in your lives. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed doing all the research for these challenges and have even …
With just a couple of weeks left of the holidays, I thought it would be nice to turn to practices of thanks and gratitude. Recent research has shown that gratitude, being thankful, and compassion uses parts of the brain that are associated with socialisation, pleasure, and emotional regulation. Therefore, when we feel grateful it creates …
With the summer holidays now over halfway gone, it can be hard to keep up the entertainment. So this week is all about games and fun. These are all ideas that you can do as a family or with a group of friends so have fun and stay mindful! You can download a worksheet of …
Finding activities that keep children entertained can be tough so this week’s challenges are all about staying entertained through arts and craft activities. These might be activities that you’ve done before but I’ve added some questions and extensions to the tasks to make them even more mindful. You can download a worksheet of all these …