Firstly I am not a medical doctor. The following is for informational purposes only. It may serve as a starting point if your child has recently been diagnosed. It should not replace any professional advice you have received. The reason I include such blogs is because of my own experiences regarding diagnosis in the past.… Read More What Is Cerebral Palsy?
There has been a lot of talk about how minimising or decluttering your home can help with your mental and physical health. But equally important is to declutter you emotions and your mind. These are often overlooked. But can and do help improve your mental and physical health much quicker than just a physical declutter… Read More Have You Ever Thought Of Doing An Emotional And Mental Declutter?
For most of us if we think about retirement planning we think about the finances needed and getting a pension plan organised. But we don’t think about the lifestyle, mental or physical health implications that also occur. Long-term studies indicate that retirement is more about making a mental health adjustment than anything else. Retirement Is… Read More Retirement Planning: It’s More Than Your Pension
Becoming a parent creates an identity crisis within us. No matter how well you prepare. When the child arrives you can feel like you are drowning. It takes time to adjust to this new period of your life. It is a time when you move from being responsible for only yourself to being responsible for… Read More Self Care As A New Parent
We have all put off a task at some point, but do you ever wondered why we procrastinate? Some people view procrastination as laziness or a lack of willpower, but in fact, there could be another reason. In psychology, it is believed that people who procrastinate have a faulty sense of time. In other words… Read More Learning To Deal With Procrastination.
Learning to love yourself can be a difficult road to take. Particularly if we have left an abusive relationship behind (partner or parent). We can find ourselves filled with self-doubt and confusion, unsure of how to even begin. We could have other issues to deal with along the way, such as harmful behaviours or bad… Read More Self-Care: Learning To Love Yourself.
Building trust in yourself again is hard, it is something that requires patience with yourself. It is something that requires time and practice. Practice, practice and more practice. There can be many reasons why we lose contact or stopped trusting our gut instinct. Usually it involves someone else coming in to our lives and abusing… Read More Self-Care: Learn To Trust Your Gut Again
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.
It can be quite normal for children to go through an anxious phase from time to time. Examples of this would be moving home, starting in a new school or play group. For some children, however, anxiety can have a bigger impact on their lives. It can affect their behaviour, interfering with school, home and… Read More 10 Tips To Help Parent Your Anxious Child.
A hoarding disorder is where a person collects an excessive amounts of items and stores them usually in their home. They can acquire vast amounts of items which may result in a collection of what has become an unmanageable amount of clutter. The items themselves may be of no monetary value but the person can… Read More What Is Hoarding Disorder?
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