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Laura Young – My 2020
My 2020 So, my 2020 felt lost with despair, Having to stay home, we can’t go anywhere! Normality stopped with immediate effect, Things we took for granted, now make us reflect! No hugs from family or friends are allowed, Having to stay strong, should make us feel proud! Nobody allowed in homes or meeting at [...]
A Note About Neurodiversity
A note to my neurodiverse friends… I had a revelation today and I wanted to share it with you. I hope it gives you some inspiration. I have been beating myself up mentally lately. Since my diagnosis, I’ve reflected on years of struggles and failures. I’ve looked back at everything I’ve been through, with a [...]
Parenting A Child With PTSD
Navigating parenting is never easy! Let me tell you, I am five years in to this now and I am still learning every single day! Navigating parenting a child with PTSD, that is a whole new board game I was not expecting! When parenting, you have the usual worries. You worry about cars too close [...]
Chase Your Dreams
I have wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember. I can recall that yearning deep inside me that I ignored and quietened down, because I couldn’t believe in myself back then. I didn’t understand the process and therefore I thought it was out of my reach. I figured I would [...]
The Creative Songwriting Journal
Most of us are familiar with the words ‘mental health’, We are used to hearing them mentioned on a fairly regular basis with some understanding of what it means and that we all have mental health. It was not always like this though. It was up until fairly recently largely associated with people suffering with [...]
A Mirror Self-Love Exercise!
I saw this exercise recently that really made me think, and I wanted to share it with you. Go to a mirror. Look at yourself. Really, deeply look. What do you see? What are the first things that catch your eye? What are you thinking? Ok, done that? Great. Now go to your child. Say [...]
Depression Disrupted My Parenting
Depression Disrupted My Parenting by Hayley Wheeler My name is Hayley Wheeler and I am the original EmotionMind Connection Therapist, but it wasn’t always like this. In 2015 I hit my rock bottom, the deepest, darkest depth of depression but my battle with my mental health didn’t start there. In 2004 I hid post natal [...]
The Benefits of Reading to Our Children
What happens when you read a story to your child? Storytime. Isn’t it wonderful when we read a story to our children? Not only do we introduce them to a world of magic, but we get those special moments of snuggling up together, relaxing together. But, did you know that when we read a story [...]
The Life of an Octopus in 2020
The Life of an Octopus in 2020 by Amber McClintock The ocean was brimming with millions of brightly coloured fish swimming around the reef. Just there, but barely noticed, was a tiny newborn octopus floating about, scared and confused. Crimson was afraid. She had just emerged from her tiny grape-shaped egg and was fighting [...]
What I Learned When My 5yo Blocked The Loo!
WHAT MY 5 YEAR OLD TAUGHT ME ABOUT FRUSTRATION AND HEADSPACE WHEN HE BLOCKED THE TOILET 🤯🤗 I wanted to post this as a reminder that headspace is a real gift 💝 Do you get frustrated at her kids? If you do, you are not alone! I know that it is very easy for me to jump [...]
The Meaning of Friends, by Mali, age 7
Meaning of Friends: Fight for you Respect you Include you Encourage you Need you Deserve you Stand by you
Child Development
"Children's mental health” The complete well-being and optimal development of a child in the emotional, behavioral, social & cognitive domains. In other words we can also say that children’s mental health is defined as different from adult mental health and more multifaceted because of the unique developmental milestones that children experience. Emotional development Emotional [...]
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