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Are you feeling grounded?

In the counselling context when we ask you if you are feeling grounded, we don't mean are you feeling down to earth or are you parking...

Making emotional acceptance easier

In the last 2 weeks, we introduced the idea of accepting emotions to help remove their power. I heard back from some of our subscribers...

Suppressing and Avoiding Emotions Doesn't Work

Suppressing emotions When I tell you not to think about elephants.... what did you do? You thought about elephants right? Yeah this is...

I am feeling....

So it is one thing to be able to identify and articulate our feelings to ourselves, but how can we speak about them with other people?...

Feelings - name them to tame them

There is no such thing as 'good' or 'bad' feelings but there are some feelings which are a lot more uncomfortable than others. Often when...

How healthy are my boundaries? Let's find out.

I am yet to meet a mum with zero boundaries in place. If this were the case, it would be a lot simpler in some respects as you would be...

Reducing Worries for Working Mums

As working mums, we often find ourselves in a delicate balancing act, juggling competing demands between our work and personal needs,...

Feeling anxious or having anxiety. What's the difference?

I get asked this question all the time, so have written this blog post to help mums out there to identify the difference and know that it...

Anxious or Excited? How to tell...

Your heart is racing, your palms are sweaty and prickly, you are taking shallow breaths and there are butterflies in your tummy. What are...