Parenting Teenagers with Gratitude
If you’ve ever looked at your teenager and thought, where did my lovely child go? You’re not alone. One minute they’re warm and funny, the next it’s slammed doors, sarcasm, or silence. Here’s the truth: adolescence is a full-scale renovation project. Their brain,...
Shame in Parenting: The Hidden Emotion Running Families
Learn how shame in parenting quietly shapes family dynamics — and how to break generational cycles by leading with calm, compassion, and emotional intelligence.
When Your Teen Feels Left Out: How to Stay Calm and Lead
When your teenager feels left out — no invites, no close friends, hating school because of the peer drama — it tears you apart. You can’t kiss it better anymore. And your own fear, anger, and sleepless nights only make things worse.
Here’s the truth: your child’s distress will always mirror your ability to stay calm. If you spiral, they spiral. If you steady yourself, they begin to regulate.
When My Protector Parts Met Theirs
Learn how Internal Family Systems (IFS) can help you stop parenting from pain and start leading your teen with compassion and clarity.
How to Talk to Your Teenager Without Arguing
Learn how to talk to your teenager without arguing using IFS-informed parenting and emotional leadership tools that foster connection, not conflict.
How to Stop Rescuing Your Teenager
When my teen was in pain, I thought fixing it meant loving her. I jumped in to rescue, reassure, smooth it all over.
But I learned this the hard way: rescuing doesn’t build resilience. It builds dependency.
Teenagers don’t need rescuers. They need calm, confident leaders.
The real shift? Learning to hold your own emotions so they can learn to hold theirs.
What to do when your child’s pain consumes you
If your child’s struggles feel like your own, this is for you. Learn how to stay steady and stop over-carrying what was never yours to hold alone.
How to Stop Sibling Fights Without Shouting
Learn how to stop sibling fights without shouting. Discover practical steps for calm, connected parenting from Energy Psychology Therapist Inger Madsen.
Emotions vs Feelings Parenting: What You Need to Know
Discover the difference between emotions and feelings in parenting and why it’s key to raising emotionally resilient teens.
The Paradox of Teenage Meltdowns
Accept what is - and it changes Last week I gave a keynote at Saffron Walden County High School - talking all things teen chaos, and why it’s not the moment for logic. You might’ve been there. Your child’s yelling, spiralling, totally unreachable. You try to reason....
How to Ease Exam Stress in Teenagers This Spring
How to Ease Exam Stress in Teenagers This Spring Hot cross buns, chocolate eggs, lighter evenings… the sap is rising and everything outside is bursting with the energy of spring. But inside homes and schools across the country, it's a different story. For thousands of...
What Netflix’s Adolescence Really Teaches Us About Parenting
What Netflix's adolescence really teaches us about parenting The new Netflix docuseries Adolescence is more than just entertainment. It’s a mirror. And if you’re raising a teenager right now, it might just hold up a painful truth about how our children are struggling...
Toxic Influencers and Teenagers – What Parents Need to Know
The Danger Lurking Behind the Screen Unless you’ve been living under a rock you will know about the new Netflix drama, Adolescence, starring Stephen Graham that every parent needs to see. It’s raw, it’s real, and it highlights something we can’t afford to ignore, the...
Why your child won’t tell you if they’re being groomed online
Did you know that more than half of primary school children have been sent inappropriate images or witnessed inappropriate behaviour online but not a single one of them has told, or will tell, their parents? In this blog I will share with you why that is and what we...
My child is SO emotional all the time and no matter what I say I seem to make it worse
I hear you and I know how tricky it is when your child’s emotional responses seem totally disproportionate to what just happened. When your child explodes and implodes all over the shop and it feels impossible to relate to or keep up with. In this blog you will...
I scream, you scream, we all scream … about SCREENS
How much is too much and who decides? I am talking about screen-time here but maybe it really should be called scream-time? It certainly is an issue that can raise the temperature even in the most peaceful household. For a lot of families it is a hotly contested issue...
WHY IT ISN’T THE BULLYING ITSELF THAT DOES THE DAMAGE
It is not at all uncommon for parents to be unaware that their child is being bullied. Children keep quiet about it because they don’t want to upset us, or perhaps they are worried that we will make the problem worse. If your normally placid child becomes aggressive...
WHAT HAVE BUTTONS GOT TO DO WITH THE TANGO?
I hear you! My blogs are one-sided and unfair. The answer always seems to be that you have to change when really it is your child who is the one with the problem. I get it, I truly do, and it’s hard but I also know that all families become happier when parents find a...