Parent Toolbox
Helping you and your children experience mental and emotional wellness with practical mindfulness that improves calm, connection and communication in your home.How to interrupt anxiety with mindful awareness
When you are caught in a moment of panic, anxiety or worry or overwhelmed with feelings and emotions, you can use mindful awareness to bring your attention into the here and now. This short video shows you how to use a simple strategy that tunes you into sights,...
Experience gratitude, patience and enjoyment with mindful eating
How often do you fully pay attention to what you're eating? Do you properly look at your food and consider all the events and people that have been involved in bringing that food to your mouth? How often do you rush through your food, quick to move on to the next...
Calm and concentration through mindful drinking
How often do you find yourself drinking whilst doing other things? Perhaps you've got a head full of thoughts or you're reading, talking and moving at the same time? If you can slow the process down, you can find gratitude, calm and pleasure in the simple art of...
My child is missing their friends. How can I help them?
Not seeing friends and loved ones during isolation can bring on feelings of sadness, loneliness, upset and depression. They (and us) are experiencing loss. Loss of friendship, loss of connection and loss of 'normal' friendship routines. Similar to grief, feelings...
Planet Earth is Healing…A compassion meditation for schools and families during lockdown
While the lives of the humans on this planet are affected by the spread of Covid-19, our Planet Earth is healing and improving in many ways. Watch and join in with this mindful meditation, suitable for schools and families. Once you've watched, you can extend the...
Learning To Ride Emotional Waves During Family Lockdown
On one occasion I can feel positive, motivated and quietly content with the current situation. On the other occasion I can feel distress, anxious, unsafe and uncertain with very little motivation to do much at all. One of these situations I like and prefer, the other...
Helping yourself and your child with concentration whilst learning and working at home
Before I go any further, working and homeschooling is a challenge for all of us. It's not your kids, you or your home set-up. It's simply NOT EASY. Working from home? Yes! Homeschooling? Yes! Both at the same time - hmmmmm. Forgive yourself for not finding it easy and...
Dealing with emotional visitors during family lockdown (yours and your childrens)
We're now in a position where we're homeschooling our children. One HUGE topic that is massively overlooked in education is that of caring for our mental health and emotional wellbeing. (It's definitely improving, I'm glad to say). Now I guarantee that the majority of...
Making and using glitter jars for emotional wellbeing during family lockdown
Glitter Jars are a wonderful way of finding calm and understanding our visiting emotions. They're super easy to make and if you make more than one, you can have them around the house as a reminder and prompt for mindful awareness and pausing to respond rather than...
Teacher Toolbox: Helping self-critical and frustrated learners to learn with more ease.
How do we help children to learn when they're frustrated? 1. Recognising you’re feeling frustrated is the first step. 2. Knowing what to do with the feeling of frustration is the second step. 3. Noticing the thoughts and words that you produce when you’re frustrated...