I have been trying to get back to work for a while now but things just keep happening, since the kids have gone back to school, I\’ve got caught up clearing out the house, also getting my out of date driver licence renewed, yesterday my son was home sick with croup and now I have […]
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I love Christmas, I particularly love Christmas Eve… I think its my favorite day of the year, it\’s the anticipation and the excitement, and of course this day means so much more when you have young children in the house. We have 3, so it is very very very exciting, and I am a big
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We all get comfortable in our comfort zone, its a very nice, cosy, easy place to live. We do the same stuff and know what to expect from life – even when we\’re not happy, we stay stuck because it\’s what we know, and it could always be worse. I made the commitment to myself
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The majority of calls I get nowadays are from parents worried about their child or teens\’ anxiety – probably 9 out of 10 cases I see, are anxiety related. It\’s off the scale how much this crippling thing called anxiety is stopping our kids living a normal life. Why is this? I know one mother
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My darling sweet little girl is turning into an angry, cheeky monster! How are will I survive the teenage years! I have had so many children and teens come to me for help with anger over the years, I work them and describe how our anger can go from 0 to 100 in a few
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I decided to write a little about CBT as its talked about a lot these days and if you haven\’t heard of it then you\’re probably lucky! It\’s a talk therapy that\’s used to help people of all ages with anxiety, stress, depression; it helps change how we think and therefore how we behave. I
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It\’s that time of year again… for some kids it\’s exciting, perhaps a new school, a new teacher, new classroom… new books! For many it\’s an anxious time. So many unknowns… it can be hard to stay calm. Anxious children project the worst in their minds, they use their imagination to see all their worst
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I have been busy doing mindfulness & life lessons workshops in schools around the country, various parts of Dublin, Cork and Galway over the last month or so. It has been to promote The Confidence Clinic Summer Camps. But here\’s what I\’ve learned: Your kids are amazing! I don\’t care if you kids were in the
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It is that time of year…. a few days away from the State Exams in Ireland. There are thousands of people across the country stressed out about exams – some of them are the students doing the exams, and some are the parents! I\’ve coached hundreds of teenagers on the topic of exam stress. Below
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The gratitude attitude is about switching from \’poor me\’ to \’lucky me\’ – not living in \’victim\’ mode (such as life\’s not fair, this bad thing happened) it\’s moving your thinking to how much I do have, and how lucky I am. I teach kids and teens that I coach about gratitude and all the
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