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When School Feels Too Much: Supporting Children Through School Stress
School stress can affect children in many different ways, from worry and avoidance to low confidence and emotional overwhelm. This article explores what’s really behind school pressure, one simple tool parents can try at home, and how coaching can support children’s wellbeing and resilience.
When Your Child Feels Anxious or Overwhelmed: How Coaching Can Help
When children feel anxious or overwhelmed, it can be hard to know how best to help. This article explores why anxiety shows up the way it does in young people, offers a simple tool parents can try at home, and explains how coaching can support children to feel calmer, more confident, and more in control.
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When Your Child Feels Anxious or Overwhelmed: How Coaching Can Help
When children feel anxious or overwhelmed, it can be hard to know how best to help. This article explores why anxiety shows up the way it does in young people, offers a simple tool parents can try at home, and explains how coaching can support children to feel calmer, more confident, and more in control.
Tamara@KeystoneCoaching
3 min read
Building Mental Resilience: How To Survive Family Gatherings
How To Be Less 'Game of Thrones' and more 'Happy Days'! Family. As the saying goes, “you can’t live with ‘em, and you can’t run away and...
Tamara@KeystoneCoaching
3 min read
Feeling Heard: The Practice Of Engaged, Empathic Listening
How important is listening? The answer is obviously 'really bloody important'. So important, in fact, that we created special codes and...
Tamara@KeystoneCoaching
6 min read
Happiness Is...A Good Book: My Top 5 Positive Books for Young People's Wellbeing
With 17 year's experience working with young people (including 15 year's experience as a full-time teacher) I have seen my fair share of...
Tamara@KeystoneCoaching
3 min read
Parenting in a Pandemic: The Impact on Parents’ Mental Wellbeing (Part 2)
This post forms part two of the article discussing how parents' mental health has been impacted by the pandemic. If you haven't read part...
Tamara@KeystoneCoaching
6 min read
5 Benefits of Positive Parenting That Will Make Your Life Calmer & Easier
Contents Introduction - What is positive parenting? Benefit 1 - Stronger Parent-child Relationships Benefit 2 - More Effective...
Tamara@KeystoneCoaching
5 min read
Parenting in a Pandemic: The Impact on Parents’ Mental Wellbeing (Part 1)
It might feel like there is light at the end of the coronavirus tunnel right now, especially as the days get longer and the weather...
Tamara@KeystoneCoaching
3 min read
Belonging, Resilience and Relationships
As was highlighted during the seemingly never-ending lockdowns of the last couple of years, positive social contact is important for...
Tamara@KeystoneCoaching
3 min read
Am I Responsible For Other People's Happiness?
You are not responsible for anyone else’s actions, thoughts or happiness. I keep having to remind myself of this at the moment and tell...
Tamara@KeystoneCoaching
2 min read
Top 10 Tips For Stress-free School Summer Holidays
(Updated July 2022) Whether you are busy working full-time and don't have the holiday allowance to take the time off, or you are at home...
Tamara@KeystoneCoaching
7 min read
HOW TO SET AND MAINTAIN BOUNDARIES
One issue that comes up time after time with clients is how to set and maintain personal boundaries. Quite often it comes up when clients...
Tamara@KeystoneCoaching
4 min read
5 Things Your Child Needs to Know About Friendship & Belonging
Belonging is important to everyone no matter their age. When resting, our brains enter a default network which actually mimics the same...
Tamara@KeystoneCoaching
7 min read
The Science of Happiness: Why We Should Put More Effort Into Our Relationships
If there's one thing that's been under strain since the start of the pandemic, it's our relationships. Spending hours together in a...
Tamara@KeystoneCoaching
4 min read
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