The great thing about self compassion is it allows us to accept ourselves as we are while we openly acknowledge where we've still got...

Children don’t need perfection. If we can manage safe and predicable most of the time, avoiding all forms of abuse and neglect, taking...

If you have a teenager, or a handful of teenagers, you'll know that teenagers aren't very often pleased to see us. If your self worth was...

Sometimes we know how we want to deal with things as parents. We know what we need to do and what we should avoid doing. We can picture...

Being told to make space for self care when things are difficult can feel shallow & it can highlight just how little people understand...

The main goal of NVR is being present in the lives and in the minds of children. As parents but also as grandparents, teachers, social...

“It’s okay to pay a price if you’re buying something valuable.” This section is from a book by Eli Lebowitz and Haim Omer. It’s about the...

I love this quote from Phil Stutz - psychotherapist in the netflix documentary "Stutz" - well worth a watch! One of the trickiest but...

In NVR parenting, change starts with us - the adults. When you hear that, what does it bring up in you? It's easy to conclude that if...

Today is world siblings day. When children can’t live with their parents, the decision whether to keep brothers and sisters together in a...

If there’s one thing children provide parents with it’s the opportunity for growth. Plenty of growth. Especially if we're parenting...

It takes a village to raise a child, any child, but especially a traumatised child. We can’t do it alone. We need other people who can...

Parenting is hard. Really hard. Therapeutic parenting is beyond hard. In all the therapeutic parenting advice (specific to...

Birthdays can be interesting times in adoptive families (whatever the legal framework - adoption, fostering, or kinship care). Loss can...