Transforming Your Thinking: Strategies for Managing Cognitive Distortions
Building awareness around your cognitive distortions involves becoming aware of your thoughts, which may lead you to notice thinking patterns and styles that you use consistently.
Cognitive Distortions: Unhelpful Thinking Styles
Our thinking can become distorted or flawed - these thinking errors are called cognitive distortions. Cognitive distortions can impact how we feel and are associated with various emotions, including anxiety, anger, sadness, guilt, and frustration, to name a few.
The ABCs of Anxiety
We experience anxiety in three main ways: physically, mentally and behaviourally.
Letting Kids and Adults Cry Is Okay - We Can Allow It and Support It
How do we begin to accept that, at some point, it will be helpful to the child to allow them space and time to cry while we quietly hold space?
Why Saying “Calm Down” Doesn’t Work (And What to Say Instead)
Aimed to make the child less agitated, saying "calm down" only makes things worse because sometimes we do not want to calm down, we want to be heard first.
Discover 3 Psychology-Based Concepts That Help Explain How Parents Influence Emotional Development in Kids
Whilst there is a great deal of emphasis on healthy emotional development in children, research is also helping us understand how our emotional skills and mental processes can impact the parent-child relationship.
Parenting with Insight: 8 Books to Cultivate Self-Awareness
Parenting with Insight: 8 Books to Cultivate Self-Awareness