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Do you feel ashamed of how you parent?
  • Feb 27
  • 3 min

Do you feel ashamed of how you parent?

In parenting, ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ feeds shame and shame puts you at the mercy of a model that will keep you searching for answers forever.
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Not speaking up poisons relationships
  • Feb 9
  • 3 min

Not speaking up poisons relationships

If we chose to be honest, we could make life so much more simple and fun, by putting the emphasis on allowing each other the space to share
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Go Go Go!
  • Feb 5
  • 4 min

Go Go Go!

Meet Mary a 'go go go woman' with a 'go go go' lifestyle that ended up with her nearly wetting her pants...
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The rollercoaster ride of raising teenagers
  • Jan 31
  • 2 min

The rollercoaster ride of raising teenagers

What if have not valued the need to value, and we have not appreciated just how deeply we need to appreciate? Why would that matter?
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Breaking the struggle with parenting
  • Jan 29
  • 2 min

Breaking the struggle with parenting

What if have not valued the need to value, and we have not appreciated just how deeply we need to appreciate? Why would that matter?
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Parenting Fitness
  • Jan 27
  • 2 min

Parenting Fitness

Did anyone tell us that parenting needs us to have a certain kind of fitness? Nope – well let’s talk about the elephant in the room now…
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Rome wasn't built in a day!
  • Jan 21
  • 3 min

Rome wasn't built in a day!

Just because we have made a decision things need to change, we think everyone should be on board with us right? Not quite...
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What is 'discipline' in family life?
  • Jan 21
  • 2 min

What is 'discipline' in family life?

Discipline in family life is a challenging topic. How do we navigate discipline in this tricky world?
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Sitting back and observing
  • Jan 21
  • 2 min

Sitting back and observing

To observe or dive into being a family at war is always a choice. What choice will you make?
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Backing each other
  • Jan 21
  • 2 min

Backing each other

Have you considered the most intense criticism lies in families? How would it be if we stopped this abusive pattern and backed each other?
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Arguments and Comfortable Intensity
  • Jan 21
  • 3 min

Arguments and Comfortable Intensity

Have you ever been in an argument where things have been said and the atmosphere is thick as treacle? Welcome to comfortable intensity...
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Trying to be 'liked' as parents
  • Jan 6
  • 3 min

Trying to be 'liked' as parents

How much do we want our children to like us? Wanting our children to like us can lead to complications and trouble with a capital 'T'
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Why do I feel scared of my child?
  • Aug 14, 2021
  • 2 min

Why do I feel scared of my child?

It is time to talk about child to parent abuse. It is an increasingly common thread yet abuse does not need to be a lodger in our home.
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How well do we hide our challenges?
  • Aug 7, 2021
  • 3 min

How well do we hide our challenges?

Our kids see far more than we expect them to, and are far more equipped to handle it than we give them credit for. So, why pretend?
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Addictions - same same but different
  • Apr 30, 2021
  • 2 min

Addictions - same same but different

Addictions come in a huge variety of styles and flavour’s but all have the same devastating impact on our lives
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Gaming Addiction
  • Mar 12, 2021
  • 4 min

Gaming Addiction

Gaming took my life for a long time, I lost myself so much I didn’t know who I was any more. I spent years locked up in a fantasy world
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What is Love?
  • Feb 12, 2021
  • 4 min

What is Love?

Someone once described ‘love’ to me as having a beholding quality - I could feel how beautiful that felt, and I understood what the words...
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Do we remember Love?
  • Feb 6, 2021
  • 3 min

Do we remember Love?

Being on the receiving end of love feels gorgeous, the nervous system feels at ease, there is more space and it feels like time goes on...
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We are all kinds of Awesome
  • Jan 3, 2021
  • 3 min

We are all kinds of Awesome

I was given a birthday card last year with the words, ‘You are all kinds of awesome’ on it. I put the card in a letter rack in my office...
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The power of Love and the heart
  • Dec 19, 2020
  • 1 min

The power of Love and the heart

Gabe Caplice and Annette Baker talk with Lucy about living life with more love and how it can affect our physical and mental health. The...
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