by Maryhan Baker | Aug 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Guilt is a strange beast. I see it frequently in my counselling room, and recognise it in my own personal makeup but parental guilt is capable of escalating to another level. We all recognise that guilty feeling, we have all shared that sense that we should have...
by Maryhan Baker | Apr 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’ve been running online children’s workshops for the first time this past week on key topics parents often tell me their children struggle with; confidence building, coping tools for anxiety, and managing emotions. Whilst I had no doubts I would be able...
by Maryhan Baker | Mar 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
I am an eternal optimist; ask my children, they find it really quite irritating. I am always telling them to focus on what the difficulty or challenge is teaching them, and what can be learnt from it. This is not to say I diminish their feelings in any way; absolutely...
by Maryhan Baker | Feb 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
It starts off innocently enough. There’s a small disagreement, voices become raised, there’s shouting, then screaming, and one of your children races to find you in floods of tears sobbing so much so that you can’t make out what they’re saying. You ask what happened...
by Maryhan Baker | Jan 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
At the end of each year I spend quite a bit of time time reflecting on the lessons the previous year has taught me, and I then set my goals for the next year. To help keep me on track I choose a couple of words which embody my goals in one theme. My two words for...
