3 Steps towards Balance

3 Steps towards Balance

3 Steps to Balance I’m always trying out new ideas, tweaking my usual tools, experimenting with different ways of practicing mindfulness and ways to be present, to regulate, to stay in balance. Just like everything else in life, we change, are inspired by others,...
Who are you on holiday? Do you shed your ‘home skin’?

Who are you on holiday? Do you shed your ‘home skin’?

“When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.” Aimee Friedman I love this quote. Have you ever been somewhere new, perhaps on holiday, where you pretend to be someone different? Where you play around with your identity?...

What do you value? How can we find out?

  What’s important to you? What do you value? Do you know? So often we spend a huge amount of our energy and time on things that don’t really matter. We do the things we’ve always done, the things our family prioritises, that society in general...

Unlocking Imposter Syndrome to Podcast

In November of last year, parenting coach Rachel Richards called me to ask if I wanted to join her in a podcast she was starting about parenting teenagers. We chatted on the phone for a while. The conversation flowed, it all sounded super interesting and relevant, and...

Can we dip into the past & future and still stay present?

My eldest turned 17 on Sunday. What? How on earth did we get here? Which is what I was thinking, as I waived him off on his first driving lesson, while hiding my leaking eyes (which would’ve ignited eye rolls, if spotted). Every time one of my kids celebrates a...