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Reconnect to Your Authentic Self: Nurturing Mindful Parenting

Reconnect to Your Authentic Self: Nurturing Mindful Parenting

Welcome to returning to you, reconnecting to your authentic self, learning how to connect back to your feelings, your body and your needs. This isn’t a new skill we need to learn. Rather, a very old set of skills that we are all born with. Many of us will have lost...

Big Schools in Dubai

Big Schools in Dubai

So, if you’re reading this, it’s likely that your kids have recently gone back to school and had a couple of weeks to settle in before the Eid break.  If you opted for a brand-new school this year, then it’s possible they haven’t even started yet or perhaps they...

Teens and Technology

Teens and Technology

There is so much information on the topic of technology and children and the really confusing thing is that it doesn’t all say the same thing!  On top of that, irrespective of what our personal views or beliefs are we now have schools insisting that children BYOD...

5 ways to discipline your kids in a mindful way

5 ways to discipline your kids in a mindful way

Boundaries – what is ok and what isn’t ok.  Be clear on what your boundaries are and focus on applying these consistently as this is how young children learn best.Role-model your boundaries to your children – how to be calm, how to use self-control, how to use...

Re-Parenting

Re-Parenting

During my 24 years as a parent what I’ve learnt is that at my core, I am a good mother and I know what my children need and am able to meet those needs.  The challenge I have faced and continue to face is that I am consciously choosing to parent in a different...

Mindfulness and Self Love

Mindfulness and Self Love

Do you dare to dream of meeting your hearts longing?  Can we dare as parents to talk about this with ourselves and our children or will we forever be stuck in the habit of talking about what they want to do when they grow up and what do they need to do now in...

Emotions

Emotions

When we continually try to push away the prickly emotions in favour of the pleasurable ones, we create a pattern of behaviour which reinforces that some emotions are to be avoided and some are to be clung onto.  Our constant search for happiness, peace or...

Adolescence

Adolescence

I struggled with my own adolescence, felt like I didn’t fit in, did many things I knew were wrong to try to fit in and felt very disconnected from my parents- that they just wouldn’t understand my life or how I was feeling.  I was also living as an expat from...

Mindfulness Attitudes – Non-striving

Mindfulness Attitudes – Non-striving

Non-striving is one of the 7 attitudes of Mindfulness but where does it fit into Mindful Parenting? When my children were smaller I remember thinking, "When they sleep through the night things will be better", "If I was calmer, they would be calmer", "I really want my...

Anxiety

Anxiety

Over the last 20 years I’ve spent a lot of time with anxious adolescents and what they’ve told me and what we know from a large number of studies on adolescents and anxiety, is the important influence you have as a parent.  Anxiety doesn’t always look like...

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