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For Children’s Mental Health Week we spoke to CalmFamily Consultant and Clinical Psychologist Dr Hannah Guzinska about ways parents can support their children’s mental health.
Play is hugely important for brain development. It is through play that we learn, and learning literally creates and strengthens links in the brain. There
The purpose of core emotions Our core emotions have an important set of purposes. Each one has its own purpose, however, they all function to:
Self-care. Urgh. Those 2 words. I hate them. They drip with guilt, oozing with indulgence and selfishness. I hate it when people bandy about the
First time mum… As a first time mum nine and a half years ago, I remember looking down at my new baby boy and thinking
Two little words. What if? Two little words that can mean optimism, hope and excitement. Words that speak of a future that looks bright, engaging
Whilst pregnant I imagined raising strong, independent girls. Feisty, don’t take any shit girls. Girls who weather our world whilst working to change it. Girls
Who are you? Who are you? Three words. A seemingly simple question, which should be easy to answer. Then why am I unable to answer
When you don’t glow The picture perfect images of pregnancy shows women wreathed in flowers like a Goddess, or radiant (usually dressed in white) with
I stayed quiet last week whilst the smacking debate was raging through social media. Fundamentally I agree with Scotland’s decision to make smacking illegal. I
I’ve just seen this doing the rounds on Facebook, and I love it. [Image no longer available: it showed a grown up sized wooden chair
A broken culture: choice and shame I read the articles on infant feeding this morning. I read the information from the Royal College of Midwives
When was the last time someone told you you ‘should’ do something? When was the last time you told yourself you ‘should’ do something? I
Both myself and Jenni have personal experience of perinatal mental health conditions. We’ve written about these before: Em’s experience of post-natal depression: Antenatal mental health and
Now I know that it is pretty treacherous in some places, it can be dangerous, that it’s inconvenient, and it can cost people money. Today
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