Evolution of Anxiety

Evolution of Anxiety A model that is used within biology to describe how things evolve can be used to explain the evolution of anxiety within a child or young person. Using this model, I’m going to share four different ways that we can tackle anxiety. This comes from[…]

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How to Handle Resistance to Resolution: Parents & Professionals

I have 3 tips to dealing with resistance to resolution. Resistance to resolution is when a young person is not compliant with the ideas or strategies you offer that would obviously make their lives better! Sometimes this happens not because the young person is resistant to improving themselves[…]

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Logical Levels: Children and Young People

Find out the different places where a problem might be lurking and learn the important questions to help you discover where it is so that you can get rid of it! The Logical Levels is a framework for thinking used in NLP. Here I will describe how you[…]

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Creative Problem Solving: Children and Young People

This is one of my favourite subjects to talk about! When your brain gets stuck and is struggling to find a way forward there are ways to unmuddle the muddle you are in.  It’s important to strip back the information you do not need and to begin by[…]

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Dealing with Repetitive Behaviours and OCD Tendencies: Parents and Professionals

Here are 9 tips for helping a young person who has some obsessive or repetitive tendencies in how they behave. Whilst this is not a video specifically for OCD, it may still have some benefits. Often we use the term OCD without a diagnosis and to describe repetitive[…]

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Taking Charge of Your Brain: Children and Young People

I’m talking here about how to take full responsibility for how you think in your brain. This is important to do because it will help you to become more in control of how you think. Remember your thoughts and feelings are connected to each other.  This is the[…]

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Managing Meltdowns

I’m going to give you my three top tips on managing meltdowns.  The very first one is when there is a meltdown on the horizon. I know these things can move like a tsunami, they can move fast and they can accelerate rather quickly – particularly if a[…]

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Are You a NEEDY Friend?: Children and Young People

Some friendships can go a little out of balance resulting in you feeling as if you need your friends more than they need you. Part of the challenge when this happens is to avoid making things worse by trying too hard and appearing needy.  We tend to have[…]

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What’s Your *Real* Problem: Parents and Professionals

Before working with any kind of practitioner or reaching out to an organisation to ask for mental health support for a young person, it’s a really good idea to properly define what the problem is.  The benefit of doing so will enable the practitioner to offer the right[…]

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Fear of Being Sick: Children and Young People

Emetophobia is the fear of being sick. Sometimes people develop this phobia because they were once ill in the past and their brain keeps thinking about that old memory. Sometimes people develop emetophobia because they witness someone else being vomiting and this is a scary and unexpected thing[…]

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