Compassion, empathy & understanding start at an early age and they start with you, as parents, talking and teaching your children about all sorts of things including mental health. So I was interested to read about a new survey of more than 1,100 parents that found 55% hadn’t spoken about the subject of stress, anxiety, […]
Today I’m delighted to have Mark Williams as my guest writer raising awareness of depression in fathers. It follows on from his article in today’s Daily Mirror http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/dads-can-suffer-postnatal-depression-6248796#ICID=sharebar_facebook Here is Mark’s story. ‘The birth of a couple’s first child is billed as one of the happiest moments in their life. But, for thousands of women […]
I’m delighted to see that thousands of teenagers across the UK will have school lessons in mindfulness in an experiment designed to see if it can protect against mental illness. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-33540242#?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter I teach it as young as 5 with the children I work with using a wonderful book called ‘Nightlights’ Wonderful Stories For You […]
I have launched a whole new series of Conversational Cards around Divorce for families and children called “Talking To Children About Divorce” which you can buy here so I was delighted to have been invited to The House of Commons on Monday night to launch Dialogue First – to discuss the impact of family breakdown on […]
