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...

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

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...

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.

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

Several years ago I was speaking to a friend about managing emotions when he suddenly piped up with, 'have you tried EFT?' EFT stands for...

This post was inspired by a performance I saw last night called 'Highly Sensitive' by Hannah Jane Walker. Evolutionary psychologists tell...

There is no doubt that some children are wired up to be more naturally empathetic than others. For example, the children I teach tend to...

Mindfulness has received a lot of attention in the last few years and for good reason. However, while there are some great advocates out...

I think most of us do it probably because our parents/carers did it: that is to distract our child away from their uncomfortable emotions...

I believe that as a nation, we are rubbish at debate. Although debate does happen in schools, learning how to debate healthily does not....

'Sorry, sorry' you often hear a woman say when she has burst into tears. 'Man up,' or 'pull yourself together', a male might hear if he...

You know how when you listen to a tune that evokes instant (and strong) happy memories and how you are immediately uplifted - the same...

The emotion that seems to cause the most concern with parents/carers that I talk to is their child's anger. This is fair enough because...

There are words for emotions in different languages that do not translate directly or straightforwardly into English because the emotion...

Obviously nobody can guess what another person is feeling with 100% accuracy all of the time. "I am wondering..." is a useful little...