Slow cooking new habits

Low-key Self Care – a practice and a mindset – for when you don’t have much energy I experienced life […]

Low-Key Self Care

What is Low-key Self Care? Sometimes when we are feeling down, that we are just surviving and barely hanging in […]

The Cuddle Alarm (a simple tool to increase feelings of safety in our children)

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Our Response to a Crisis – Stress Responses explained

Please visit for medical health guidelines and regulations your government website and your local healthcare provider website. Thank you. Our Response […]

School’s Out – Adjusting to sudden Home-Education

Frequently asked questions  In the last two weeks, clients have been asking regularly the same questions.  How do I reassure […]

“Innately empowering and humanising: We all need more of this!”

Interview with PowerWood’s Director Carolyn Sargentson I had seen Simone’s [founder of PowerWood] stand at a home education camp – […]

Crushing Feelings led to very rewarding Eternal Quest of Self-Discovery

One of Simone’s Challenges “When my now adult son was a teenager, he was very frustrated and angry.  He was […]

Overwhelmed by Guilt and Shame while Parenting? Congrats!

Or Explanation of the Gap-Energy “When Mark (4) kicks his younger brother (3) I feel so helpless and often start […]

How to stop hurting when our Child is in Pain

When I asked in the PowerWood Closed Group on FaceBook what subjects you would like me to write about, one […]