For most people self-care means nothing more than looking after your daily basic needs of eating, sleeping and washing, if they’re lucky, just ask any parent. For others, it can be an entire world involving using all of your senses on a daily basis to get creative, regulate and build positive habits into their lives.… Read More Why We, And Our Children, Should Get Creative.
What is traumatic grief? Childhood Traumatic Grief is a condition in which children develop significant trauma symptoms (PTSD) related to the death of a family member i.e parent or sibling or another important person i.e grandparent, another relative, friend or peer. The trauma symptoms interfere with the child’s ability to go through the stages of… Read More Helping Teens With Traumatic Grief.
Everyone keeps talking about being grateful these days or showing gratitude. But when life is getting you down it can be very hard. Why should I be grateful you may ask? What’s it all about anyway? These are some very good questions. When the word gratitude is thrown about these days it’s as if it’s… Read More How Gratitude Can Boost Your Mental And Physical Health.
What Is Generalized Anxiety Disorder? (GAD for short) Generalized anxiety disorder is characterized by excessive anxiety and worries about everyday life events for no obvious reasons. People with symptoms tend to always expect disaster and can’t stop worrying about health, money, children, other family members, friends, work, etc. This type of worry is often unrealistic… Read More Understanding Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
As I said in previous blogs in this series (start here) it’s the teen’s job now to move away from you and become independent adults. They can present with bizarre and sometimes unpredictable behaviour. Some of this will be normal (and I hate this word “normal” as there is no such thing as normal) and… Read More Parenting Teens Part 4 Behaviour: What is typical & what’s not?
Please note that the previous blogs in this series already give you some techniques that you will find useful here. I didn’t want to repeat them below but check them out (Week 1 Week 2) for more details. How To Deal With The Negative Mindset. To help you dealing with, and help teens deal with, negativity… Read More Parenting Teens Part 3 Dealing With Negativity
I talked last week about anger management in some small detail and modeling good anger management for your teen. This is hugely important if you wish your teen to be able to manage not just anger but all their emotions. Today I’ll talk about understanding how the teen’s brain is different from the adult brain.… Read More Parenting Teens Part 2 Dealing With Anger
Before We Begin. When I sat down to write this I ended up writing too much. So this is at present a 4 part series and I have to warn you this post is still long. I apologise in advance, but I would advise you to take your time in reading it. Maybe get a… Read More Parenting Teens Part 1
Let’s Remove The Stigma. When most people read the word schizophrenia they cringe, why? Well, maybe it’s gotten too much bad press in the past. Most people won’t even want to read this blog. I hope they do, as I am trying to demystify as much about disabilities and mental health issues as I can.… Read More Understanding Schizophrenia?
Divorce and separation can be very difficult for all those concerned but imagine being a child during this time. They don’t get a say. Nor do they get to have all the information we as adults do. It’s hard enough for the adults concerned but for children, it can be extremely tough when your parents… Read More Tips To Help Children With Separation And Divorce.
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