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My Five Favourites – Four Apps and One Website

My Five Favourites – Four Apps and One Website

by Suzanne | Feb 15, 2021 | Children, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Well-being

This list of apps (and one website) covers the three areas that people most often are looking for support in: anxiety, mindfulness, and emotional intelligence. These are the apps that I recommend; a couple of them I use myself. My suggestion to you would be to play...
Compassion & Forgiveness

Compassion & Forgiveness

by Suzanne | Oct 5, 2020 | Connection, Developing empathy, Kindness, Well-being

Compassion and Forgiveness I’ve been thinking a lot about compassion throughout this pandemic. How we all are quicker to become dysregulated and how it is also taking longer to return to a state of regulation. How this means that we need to have compassion for others...
Supporting Your Child with School Reopening

Supporting Your Child with School Reopening

by Suzanne | May 20, 2020 | Connection, Emotional Literacy, Emotional Vocabulary, Listening, Mental Health, Resilience, Well-being

During this transition to Phase 2 as schools being to reopen their buildings, it can be challenging to support our children when we have so many questions and feelings ourselves. Some of you may choose not to send your child(ren). If your child(ren) will be returning,...
Mental Health Week

Mental Health Week

by Suzanne | May 4, 2020 | Emotional Literacy, Mental Health, Resilience, Well-being

May 4 – 10, 2020 is Mental Health Week. During this time of shelter-in-place, looking after our mental health is more needed and more challenging than ever. I created this infographic as a simple visual reminder of four ways we can support our well-being. If you...
How Are You Doing?

How Are You Doing?

by Suzanne | Apr 15, 2020 | Community, Connection, Mental Health, Resilience, Well-being, Workshops

How are you doing? How are you and your family in this time of COVID 19? How I am doing is a pretty mixed bag to be honest. Short answer is, I’m okay. The longer answer is more complex – I’m feeling grateful, worried, nervous, unfocused, unsettled, content, peaceful…...
My Family’s Favourite Board Games

My Family’s Favourite Board Games

by Suzanne | Mar 19, 2020 | Children, Children's games, Connection, Mental Health, Resilience, Well-being

I hope you and your family are well and managing with this new world as it emerges. The unknown and unpredictable nature of our current world is creating lots of anxiousness. You may be trying to comfort your children, find activities to keep them occupied and make...
Can Rewards Change Behaviour?

Can Rewards Change Behaviour?

by Suzanne | May 26, 2019 | Connection, Intrinsic Motivation, Mastery, Resilience

Offering rewards – as in “get good marks in school and I will buy you a new toy/game” – is an oft used parenting strategy. The question is, does it actually work? Research shows that for mundane, repetitive tasks, rewards do work. For more complex tasks where nuanced...
Listening With Intention

Listening With Intention

by Suzanne | Mar 29, 2019 | Children, Listening, Mindfulness, Setting Intention

Listening with intention to our children is critical. If we want our children to know that they are seen, then we need to listen with intention. Not just hear their words, but also be fully present and engaged in the process of listening. Mindful listening and active...
4 Ways to Hold onto your Joy this Winter (or How to Not “Lose It” on a Daily Basis)

4 Ways to Hold onto your Joy this Winter (or How to Not “Lose It” on a Daily Basis)

by Suzanne | Dec 1, 2018 | Children, Emotional Literacy, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Resilience, Well-being

If your family is like mine and the other families I know, heading into December feeling like “I’ve got this!” is a daunting task. On top of all the usual ups and downs of family life, there are the added emotions that the upcoming holiday brings. Extended family...

Beyond Flight, Fight, Freeze

by Suzanne | Sep 30, 2018 | Mental Health, Neuroscience, Resilience, Well-being

Kelly McGonigal is a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University. She spent years telling people that stress was bad for them; that stress would increase their risk of experiencing all sorts of minor and major health issues. Then she came across a study...
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