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Attachment and resilience

Strong bonds Secure attachment is the foundation of resilience throughout a person’s life. By secure attachment, I mean having at least one person who is consistently there for us, so we feel safe, soothed and seen. In the early part of life, this means having an adult who is available […]

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Advice for working parents

Being a working parent can look like…. ….accepting your limitations, grieving what you can’t do and finding the most beautiful path through the chaos.   I don’t want to lie to you. Being a working parent borders on the impossible for most people! There is the constant nagging guilt that […]

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How to play with your child

Play is for adults too! Play is important throughout the life course. It helps us to build connection, relax and find joy which has a ton of physical and emotional benefits for you and your developing child. Some of my favourite memories are those where I laughed and messed around […]

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Boundaries Create Compassion

Parenting is at it’s heart a relationship. Treat it as a garden which needs sunlight, water, nutritious soil and the right amount of shade. Tend the garden of your relationship carefully everyday with the sunlight of your loving presence, the water of your unconditional acceptance, the soil of all of […]

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Elephants, Community and Capitalism

A Balanced Life In the Babar stories by Jean De Brunhof “the elephants work all the morning” then in the afternoon they are free to do as they please, read, dream, play tennis.. not a bad system in my view. If everyone who was able shared the work that needed […]

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Education for Self Authoring Children

Children Deserve Our Trust Confession – I don’t send my son to school or try to recreate school at home. Despite this he has been reading fluently for several years, enjoys lively discussions about politics, physics, philosophy and other subjects, is confident conversing with adults, can mediate conflicts and plays […]

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A Pathway to Mental Health for New Parents

I feel motivated to offer something to the world that people might not know that they need until they are already in the thick of their struggle. When feelings of overwhelm and confusion have built up exacerbated by the exhaustion caused by broken sleep. Your sense of self wavers as […]

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