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Celebrate good times!
“How will you celebrate?” Getting you into the mindset of the future version of you who hasn’t...
How many times
How many times have you woken up with a raging hangover and declared you’re NEVER DRINKING AGAIN...
Hop, Skip, Jump
Is your child struggling through mainstream school? Is worrying about their wellbeing and education affecting you? I help stressed out, overwhelmed parents like you explore whether home education would suit your family so that you can all be happier and more settled....
Journaling
After my grandma died, I devoured the letters we found in her house. Beautiful handwritten wartime love letters with tales from her land army days, before and after she met her husband. There is no stack of love letters between me and my husband for anyone to find and...
What do you do just for you?
Today I met a new client for the first time, a busy home educating Mum with caring responsibilities. Early into our conversation, I asked her what she does for herself. She told me what a huge thing it was for her to have assigned a full hour to herself in coming to...
The Opposite of Loneliness
During my time at Volunteering In Health I learned so much about the detrimental effects of loneliness on our physical heath as well as our mental health. If we can help people to feel less lonely, by providing more meaningful connection, it can have a huge impact on...
Heartbreak High
Last year I completed a coaching programme with a relationship coach I had been following on Instagram for some time. She wanted to work on her self esteem and to quit her day job to focus on her coaching business. Between our first and second sessions, she got...
Time to go
How good are you at recognising that something isn’t working and moving on from it? Recently I was reading with my son. He loves maths, but reading is a chore for him. Begrudgingly, he read to me (mostly in a silly voice) and made it clear he was finding the book...
RIP Mum
Today marks three years since my mum died. Apart from her outfits and her hair, Mum was known for her teaching. Over the last few years her focus was on character education. “It’s character building,” was the often-repeated catchphrase of our childhoods, designed to...
What is school for?
When I was making the decision to take Oscar out of school for the sake of his mental health - and the fact that it was affecting his ability to learn, I asked myself why he was at school. The answer certainly wasn’t to learn or even to learn to learn, and if it was,...
40 winks
How do you sleep? So many people I know talk about not sleeping for long enough or well enough. Not getting enough sleep impacts EVERYTHING. It makes us grumpy, unable to problem solve effectively, slower, more likely to comfort eat… When my children were younger,...
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