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...

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...

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,...

Manifesting

What do you think when you hear the word ‘manifest’? There is a misconception that manifesting means simply visualising something you want and then waiting for it to come to you. (Spoiler alert: that won’t work.) My son puts it nicely: “say what you want as though you...

Let’s Play!

What do you do for fun? If you find that hard to answer, you’re not alone. How many of these ideas could you tick off today to inject some play more into your day? 🐯Dance manically round the kitchen while the kettle boils 🦄Pretend to be a rockstar when...