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Planning another pregnancy after losing a baby can be a very difficult time.... Giving myself permission to have 'fun' again helped enormously with my healing process.

Planning another pregnancy after losing a baby can be a very difficult time.... Giving myself permission to have 'fun' again helped enormously with my healing process.

Clients often seek personal help when dealing with behaviour problems in their children. A very healthy and simple way of changing a child’s behaviour is to undertake a 5 night “Sleep Talk” process - where you read your child a customised script each night when they have gone to sleep. Your familiar voice, your loving tone, and the personalness of the message “gets in!” and the child is given a message of love, support, and positive outcome which they unconsciously acknowledge and implement.

Getting your career back on track after having a baby can be very exciting...but also surprisingly difficult for a variety of reasons. To help you out, we explore some of those reasons in this factsheet, and highlight some hints and tips to overcome them!

Receiving the news that your baby will not be born alive is one of the most devastating news parents can receive. Understanding how you can get through that grief, hearing how others have coped and what helped them, can be helpful in the healing journey. Understanding that your reactions to grief are 'normal' and 'just fine' helps to accept the grieving process, embracing it, allowing healing to begin.

I am wondering how some young people today can be comfortable with carrying knives, ok with stealing, converting cars, drinking and driving young, abusing each other, having fights in the school ground sending abusive and threatening texts to each other… are abusive to teachers and other adults, are disrespectful of authority - all types which are in the news every day - disheartening us further about their future. This is a short list of stuff we hear about daily. So…

Parenting could be the most important job title you will ever have and the appraisal method is the most illuminating! What do you want to remember about how you ‘parented.’ Will your memories of parenting your children be overwhelmingly positive? What kind of people do you want your children to become? This article is a beginners guide to identifying and prioritising the key areas of your life, and adding focus and a spark to each. The results could begin a life-changing path!

Have you got a child you don’t get on with? Maybe they remind you too much of yourself, or someone you don’t particularly like? Maybe they appear different from you in behaviour and style, and you can’t connect with them? A few years ago, someone I was seeking some advice from someone told me that my son was more like me than I knew - and that I should make an effort to get to know him better. This was quite a shock to me!

Have you got a child you don’t get on with? Maybe they remind you too much of yourself, or someone you don’t particularly like? Maybe they appear different from you in behaviour and style, and you can’t connect with them? A few years ago, someone I was seeking some advice from someone told me that my son was more like me than I knew - and that I should make an effort to get to know him better. This was quite a shock to me!

First of all, ‘Congratulations’ to you and your partner! What an exciting time for you, as your baby grows and you prepare for the arrival of a brand new person into your life.

Have you ever tried being unpredictable? It is a very cool and useful tool I use with my children. Having lots of choices about the way I behave and react to situations allows for lots of fun and surprises when the children ask me for something. This means they can never tell exactly how I am going to react.. and they can’t manipulate the situation with sulking, greasing, and demanding. They can try though.

I’m a big believer of setting intentions. Intentions help us to clarify exactly what we want out of our experiences. I have intentions as a parent, intentions for my kids, intensions for my marriage, and intentions for my business – all of which I intend to share with you over time! But first you will want to know my intentions for my regular newsletter, “High Performance Tips”. See below for what to expect from my articles...