I am posting regularly over on my website. I have recently started making videos to support the development of children's emotional...

I remember whining ‘I’m bored’ with some regularity when I was a child. Although I didn’t realise it at the time, my mum’s indifference...

Anxiety seems to be very much on the up. I don’t think this is overly surprising. The world seems to be getting a lot less emotionally...

I often marvel at how emotions are so rarely acknowledged despite their incredibly powerful, influential and potentially...

I read an article recently that said many people were finding coming out of lockdown far more stressful than the initial weeks of it. I...

I honestly think it would be impossible to get out of childhood unscathed! Our parents and carers are/were only human after all and while...

I had just been thinking how my books (the ones that deal with emotions which is all of them!) almost need a supplement addressing the...

This is a small part of CFT by Dr Paul Gilbert that I think you could very usefully use with your children when they have had some kind...

(You will have to forgive me – I cannot source any of this theory but I hope to soon!) I recently attended a conference with an excellent...

I am reading ‘The school of life’ introduced by Alan de Botton. It’s a great philosophical journey into the impact emotions have on our...

As an exhausted parent/carers/teachers, we tend to manage difficult behaviours in a reactive way e.g. a reprimand, the removal of an...

As I have said before, simply increasing your child’s emotion vocabulary improves their emotional intelligence. It makes sense that in...

I am sure many of you have heard the Stanford marshmallow experiment where young children were told they could have one marshmallow now...

I was disappointed this week in an, ‘I was really, really looking forward to something that now isn’t going to happen’ type way. It...

It’s a very obvious statement when I say that what we think can impact on how we feel and how we feel can impact on what we think. I am...

This week I have a new book out - which I am delighted about. It is very much linked to the original book, ‘How are you feeling today?’...

Generally, our emotions are not focussed on other than when the reactions to them are extreme. We are not in the habit of tuning into our...

This week I was lucky enough to be interviewed by Lily Law from 'The Lady' about the work I do. Here is the article.

This is another post about self esteem to complement an earlier one. Having self esteem or self worth is highly beneficial to a person. A...

According to modern evolutionary theory, our emotions evolved to guide our behaviour. However, different emotions evolved at different...