In this blog post learn what a rupture in a relationship is and how they happen. Learn how you can make a healthy repair so you can feel armed with the tools to respond to ruptures in ways that not only feel good to yourself, but for your kids as well.
In this blog post learn how you can use your grounded and connected presence as an anchor for your child, communicating safety when your child is feeling unsafe and dysregulated.
Have you ever found yourself in an unfortunate position where you’ve needed to have hard conversations with your kids? I’m not talking about those hard conversations we have when we’re not able to do our kids' favourite activities or they’re not able to have their favourite treat because we're out. I’m talking about those conversations that are heavy, that are uncomfortable and are even hard for us adults to make sense of. Often they’re conversations about disappointment, a[...]
Earlier this year I experienced my second miscarriage within a six month period. This loss was different to my first loss during pregnancy. This loss was sudden, unexpected and traumatic. I’ve been taking time to process and come to terms with the fact that I have experienced trauma. Much in the same way as any other traumatic event that’s once off, sudden, an overwhelming fear of pain or death and the event overloads the nervous system with more stress than it can cope[...]
Anger tantrums, temper tantrums, meltdowns, emotional outbursts, aggression, anger outbursts. Whatever you’d like to label them. We’ve all been there. Those moments of high energy, highly triggering, highly intensive moments of emotion that seem to happen at the worst possible times in the worst possible places. Some parents may have been there more often than others, but we’ve all been there. I’m going to bet that there have been times when you’ve responded in a way[...]
