by joannejewell | May 10, 2022 | Uncategorised
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...
by joannejewell | May 10, 2022 | Uncategorised
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...
by joannejewell | May 10, 2022 | Uncategorised
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...
by joannejewell | May 10, 2022 | Uncategorised
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...
by joannejewell | May 10, 2022 | Uncategorised
Conflict Is another opportunity to Connect – with ourselves and others To lean in and listen Hold space Co-operate with the feelings or person instead of pushing away Do your children ever fight? With their siblings, with you or with...
by joannejewell | May 10, 2022 | Uncategorised
Tug of war Do you feel the need to ‘win’ at parenting? When my children wouldn’t co-operate I often felt helpless, like I was losing at parenting and it suddenly felt very important that I ‘win’, this feeling meant I became determined to make them do what I said...
