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Pulling together through the difficult times
I've got NVR groups underway, new individual families as well as existing families, I’m just restarting university for the second/last...

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Sep 23, 20242 min read


Everything that irritates
Carl Jung said everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves. It’s true. Sometimes things...

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Sep 13, 20241 min read


Breathe
When things are going well it's easier to be intentional in our parenting. It's much more of a challenge when we're out of our window of...

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Aug 30, 20241 min read


Rudeness
My conscious thinking brain knows this. My unconscious emotional brain sometimes doesn't. When we're feeling wound up by our kids it's...

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Aug 29, 20241 min read


Collaborative problem solving
Collaborative conversations are a fundamental part of NVR parenting and NVR approaches in schools. Starting from a belief that everyone's...

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Aug 14, 20241 min read


Coregulation
Therapeutic parents are encouraged to share their calm to coregulate their dysregulated child. They might be very distressed. They might...

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Aug 8, 20242 min read


I'm so sorry
Apologies cover a multitude of parent mistakes and parent dysregulation. We all have ‘stuff’ that drives everything from behind the...

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May 26, 20241 min read


Triggers and glimmers
Sometimes we know how we want to deal with things as parents. We know what we need to do and what we should avoid doing. We can picture...

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Apr 26, 20242 min read
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