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Mental Health
Turns out there is a time I’d “Swipe Right” (and the book that convinced me)
True confessions: Against that backdrop, Eric Winter’s Swipe Right on your Best Self arrived by mail. Here we go again, I thought. Except we didn’t. We went somewhere else instead. Winters had told me his book was “reassuringly small.” At first glance, it appeared he may be right. I have a case of too-many-balls-in-the-air just …
“I was just trying to help” – Five Tips that will actually work
Fast forward a couple of years and I had a gorgeous new boyfriend. I really liked him and I wanted him to be so impressed with me (not quite the fierce feminist at that point, sorry mum). We’re at this party and, okay, it’s possible I’m tipsy and he suggests maybe I should stop drinking. …
I Want to Change the World. What about you? Can we do it together?
I’m reflecting on the amazing five weeks I’ve just had traveling abroad with my family, an opportunity which was made possible by a generous scholarship I was awarded by the Perth Convention Bureau and Giving West. I had an incredible trip of planning research, attending workshops, networking, and a brilliant conference interspersed with gelato, volcanoes, …
An Answer to the “War on [Pretty Much Everything]” – reviewing Anthony Biglan’s “The Nurture Effect”
There’s this mother sitting before me and she tries to stem the tears. It’s been weeks since her son has been to school. We’ve been tracking this for a while, her and I – and today her exhaustion is palpable. This mother who would move the heavens and the earth for her children; whose resources …
Parenting by the Seat of Our Pants
That’s what today’s felt like – parenting by the seat of my pants. People comment sometimes that what with being a clin psych with a wealth of training and experience with development, parenting, and families, that being a parent must come a bit easier – decisions easier to make, courses of action easier to choose. …
Skills Post! Thoughts Driving you Mad? Try Playful Thinking
I feel sorry for my kids sometimes – can’t be easy having a psych for a mum! I had this conversation with my eldest recently when he didn’t want to give a new sports class a go: Him: I don’t want to go. I won’t like it. I’m no good at it. I just KNOW. …
What if I put the baby in the microwave?
So there was this mother who, when home alone, would avoid carrying her baby into the kitchen, just in case she accidentally popped him in the oven. She avoided taking him into the laundry because what if the washing machine suddenly looked inviting? She would ring people while she played with the baby because if …