The Confidence Hack You Need Right Now
Stand Out & Shine Bright: The Confidence Hack Every Girl Needs to Know
How to Help Your Daughter Thrive
How to Help Your Daughter Thrive (and Keep your Sanity): Supporting Your Daughter During this Mad Holiday Season
Feeling Arrgh This Time of Year?
Feeling Arrgh This Time of Year? Too much to Do and Too Little Time?
Why Your Daughter is So Hard on Herself
Why Your Daughter is so Hard on Herself and How You Can Help
Is Exam Pressure Pushing Your Teen (And You) to Breaking Point?
Mock exam stress can be overwhelming for your daughter and you. In this blog I share 5 practical tips to help your daughter manage performance anxiety, stay focused and feel more confident. From breath work to sleep protection, these tips can support her - and you - during this stressful time.
Becoming the Mum my daughter needed
Becoming the Mum my daughter needed: How a life changing injury taught me to thrive
Tales of my own journey of healing and recovery
Feeling stuck, so very stuck…
Feeling totally useless in my recovery and healing ❤️🩹 journey
You’re not Alone - tales of arrgh to ahh
You’re not Alone - Tales of Aargh to Ahhh
Ugh - what now?
You’re not Alone - tales of arrgh to ahh
You’re not Alone - Tales of Aargh to Ahhh
I can’t do this….the message behind fear - Pt 2
You’re not Alone - tales of arrgh to ahh
You’re not Alone - Tales of Aargh to Ahhh
I can’t do this….the message behind fear - Pt 1
Exam Season - BOUNDARIES
Episode 2 in this 8 week special on Exam Season talking all things exams and how to better support yourself and your teen daughter before, during and after exams.
This week I am following on from last week’s episode on revision by focusing on boundaries and how helping your teen daughter to understand what is expected of them as well as what they can expect of themselves, so that they can then manage their time.
Exam Season - REVISION
This week and for the next 8 weeks, I talk about how you can support your teen daughter during the exam season.
Now don't get too excited there, but these next few blogs are to support you so that you are better equipped to manage your teenage daughter's behaviors.
I'm gonna put eight weeks aside to lead you through this step by step so that you have the tools in in your pocke, and have that general feeling of aha rather than gritting your teeth the whole way through and wishing it was really over.
This week I am starting with revision and how being aware of how much time is available in your daughter’s day, helps her and you to take pressure off yourselves.
Making the Internet a Safer Space for All
In this blog I talk about screen use being as deadly as other addictions.
We all know that social media has its good points but did you know why it has such an adverse reaction on our teen daughters?
Read on for these and other simple tools to help you manage screen time in your house.
Keep reading for 4 tips to managing internet usage in your house, or listen in to the podcast episode below
How Cyclical tracking helps you to support your daughter
In this blog I talk about tracking yours and your daughter’s menstrual cycle.
When we know what our cycles are doing, we are better able to manage our energy.
Being aware of what’s happening for our teen daughters, makes it far easier to recognise the symptoms and not put extra pressure on her..
Simple eh?
Read on for 4 simple tools that help you..
Mother’s Day special..4 tips to showing up at your best
This week I’m talking about Mother’s Day and why it's a time for YOU.
I thought I would celebrate all things Mums and talk about showing up full, not empty as a Mum to your teen daughter including 4 tips to showing up at your best..
4 Tips to Making Internet Boundaries
In this blog I talk about how to support your teen daughter with the internet..and no I’m not talking about screen time limits, I’m talking about the art of negotiation and being aware of how the internet can negatively affect our teen girls.
Find out 4 tips to making internet boundaries so you can support your teen daughter in this ever advancing technological world.
Who fancies some time out for themselves?
This week it is half term in the majority of the UK so how’s it going? Is your teen daughter revising or is she relaxing and taking time out for herself?
On that note I hope you are able to take some time out for yourself too and have been able to do more for YOU in this week.
As you know I’ve been planning a retreat for the past few weeks.. but what if this retreat was just for YOU as a Mum of a teen daughter?
REST and why it’s so important for your relationship..
This week I am full of snot but instead of pushing through and being a human do-er I have taken some time out to support my physical health and wellbeing.
In this episode I talk about why REST is so important as Mums of Teen Girls.
How past traumas affect us in our parenting
Have you ever found yourself reacting massively to a small situation where all reactions were taken out of context?
As young children we were regularly told to push our thoughts down and ignore them time and time again but this doesn’t work.
Past traumas come back up when you least expect it, unconsciously in our parenting.
They affect how you react to everything - stress, parenting, how you are with yourself.