Discipline in family life is a challenging topic. But could we see discipline in a more practical 'life skill' kind of way?

Could we consider that what we accept as our normal may be for us to not know our worth. If that is the case, who is dictating our worth?

Getting irritated by the smallest thing with your children? welcome to 'grump-pants' parenting.

To observe or dive into being a family at war is always a choice. What choice will you make?

Have you ever been in an argument where things have been said and the atmosphere is thick as treacle? Welcome to comfortable intensity...

You may have noticed that parenting can sometimes be an intense business, do we lose what is important in all that intensity?

Have you ever had that comment said to you as an insult, a put-down? Being criticized is exhausting. Let's change the narrative.

Are children as unaware as we assume them to be, or are they able to read the way we move far better than we presume or assume?

Playing the calibrating and calculating ‘not speaking up’ game, is exhausting and poisons our relationships. 

We may struggle with knowing what Love is, but we can certainly feel what love is not.

‘Fitting in’ is an unspoken directive that to survive they have to toughen up yet where does this lead? Pack energy doesn’t ‘just happen’...

I needed to find another way to stop the relentless thoughts in my head that told me to die. I am so very glad I did not take my life.

Child-to-parent abuse is increasingly common, that is huge to admit to ourselves, let alone talk about publicly. We go there...

In parenting, ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ feed shame and shame puts you at the mercy of a model that will keep you searching for answers forever.

Are we caught with our pants down when children turn teen? Read more for how we can set a foundation for everyone.

Sometimes you just need to start the conversation on a tricky topic - not to get all the answers but to not put our heads in the sand...

Don’t take constant worry as normal, because it isn’t. Your body is trying to come back to a state of ease. Read more...

It is a start disassembling the myth that is causing so much harm to a man’s mental and physical health.

“Anger is a big fat lie that doesn’t need to dominate us, it’s not what it says on the box.”

We often have great expectations of how men should be with their daughters, and these can be a real weight to carry.