Growing a Family – Part 2: Transitioning from 2 to 3

Babies are delightful! They are fun, entertaining and let’s face it – great time wasters. Babies can be mesmerising. We can find ourselves watching their every move to see what new thing they have discovered about themselves, others, or their environment.They...

Growing a Family – Part 1: Transitioning from 2 to 3

I will never forget bringing home our baby from hospital. The nine-month wait was at an end: The pregnancy was a dream, the birth as good as, and the first days in hospital went fine. I learned how to change her nappy, feed, and bath her, and give her cuddles without...

Self-Care – Part 4: Effective Self-Care

So far in this series on Self-Care, we have looked at the ’Self’, ‘Self-Understanding’ and ‘Self-Compassion’. In this article I will be looking at how to do ‘Effective Self-Care’.Effective Self-Care is caring for the ‘self’, the ‘I am’, or to put it in broader terms,...

Self-Care – Part 3: Self-Compassion

So far in this series on ‘Self-care’ we have learned that doing effective self-care starts with developing a genuine understanding of the ‘self’. It means taking time and giving our self the space to do self-reflection and genuinely understand the influences that have...

Self-Care – Part 2: Developing ‘Self-Understanding’

In the first article in this series of 4 on ‘Self-Care’, I looked at a definition of ‘self’ as defined by Atkinson and Field (1995) as ‘I am’. I also mentioned that internal and external factors including life circumstances and relationships as being influential in...