It’s quite timely that I write about this topic. A new year of high school kids have graduated, some of them are starting tertiary education and some of them are off travelling the world. What happens to the Mums left behind when our our children spread their wings? This is an interesting topic and one that can […]
Anxiety, Depression, Kids anxiety, kids grown up, reinventing yourself, Relationships, sadness, seperation anxiety, stress, stress with Teenagers, tools to help with Anxiety & DepressionYou think I’m joking here, but a holiday can almost be a state of mind. How often do we take a holiday only to find we come back needing another holiday? School and Uni holidays are nearly upon us and for many we are still committed to work or other activities that keep us from […]
anti stress, Anxiety, Depression, living in the moment, meditation, mindfulness, reinventing yourself, sadness, seperation anxiety, stress, stress relief, Taking a mind holiday, tools to help with Anxiety & Depression, urgent stress reliefWe have all felt at some stage in our lives that we want to run away from a friend or friendship group. It may have been a feeling of being left out of an event or conversation or that you are feeling overwhelmed by your own current situation which makes facing your usual group just […]
Anxiety, Depression, friend, Friendship, Kids anxiety, reinventing yourself, Relationships, sadness, seperation anxiety, stress, tools to help with Anxiety & Depression, toxic friendsObviously we all talk to each other as a family but as our children grow older and those wonderful hormones kick in, often talking at a deeper level becomes a lot harder. I had a client once who’s 12 year old boy didn’t come and tell him and his wife that some boys were […]
Anxiety, Communicate well, Depression, getting kids to talk, good communication with teenagers, Kids anxiety, Relationships, seperation anxiety, stress, stress with Teenagers, teenage anxiety, Teenage depression, Teenagers, tools to help with Anxiety & DepressionThis topic is such a movable feast in terms of definition and quantifiable meaning. I read a funny caption on Facebook today; “I wish I had friendships with girlfriends like I do when we are all drunk and in the girls bathrooms”… For most people, friendship would be defined as ‘someone you hang out with or talk […]
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