08 Mar 2024 First Steps in Getting Through Loneliness
Begin by relating to yourself so that you can relate to others. Feeling good about yourself and knowing what makes you feel good, even when alone, is important. Improving your relationship...
Author: Pek Lee
05 Mar 2024 Understanding Loneliness
Loneliness is indeed a common and often challenging emotional state that many people experience, but it's not always easy to discuss openly. It encompasses a range of emotions, and it...
05 Jan 2024 How mindfulness helps in developing self-compassion
It’s hard to be compassionate towards ourselves. It is quite a contrast to the relative ease with which we can be compassionate to others. We find it easy to extend...
22 Dec 2023 Our Inner Critic
Self-compassion and understanding our inner critic. When we criticize ourselves, we often make our distress worse by criticizing our self-criticism. However, this is a counterproductive as it only serves to make...
14 Jan 2023 Listening skills for parents
Listening is a skill. Listening can be highly effective. However, it’s not easy because parents have to actively “do nothing”. Listening can be very effective for helping children who are feeling...
14 Jan 2023 How to help your nervous or worried child by “simply” listening
When your child is nervous and/or worried, it is often parents’ first instinct to try to fix the problem – and why wouldn’t you? You love your child, and that’s...
13 Jan 2023 Helping children to start school
The anticipation, excitement, nervousness and bittersweet feelings that arise when children start school for the first time! Here are some things to think about for this process. Attending to practicalities is...