When my oldest daughter was around four or five, I remember writing a desperate question to a gentle parenting group online. The responses I received left me guilty, ashamed, and in tears. My instincts told me she needed to stop sucking her thumb, yet gentle parenting advice seemed to say otherwise. Torn and overwhelmed, IContinue reading “Gently Stopping Thumb Sucking”
Tag Archives: Emotions
Poem: The (W)hole of Me
My life so far has been a powerful and moving story—one not widely known. For years, I struggled to find a way to set it free. This poem was born from that journey, inspired by the idea of transforming “the hole of me” into “the whole of me,” a concept I embraced after taking aContinue reading “Poem: The (W)hole of Me”
The Messy Journey To Maturation
This blog post will look at the long and messy journey to being a mature individual. It looks at what an immature person looks like. It discusses the essential path to maturity: expression of all feelings. It includes my own messy journey of how I was to finally arrive at maturation.
Mixed Feelings: Brain Development and the 5-7 Shift
What if it was mostly thanks to our relationship with our parents that we grow into mature and lovely grown ups… or, the opposite, our parents prevented our brains from developing to their full potential which turned us into immature people who react in the moment? If this is true, then we have a dutyContinue reading “Mixed Feelings: Brain Development and the 5-7 Shift”
Let Me Rest In Peace, My Gentle Dad
I’ve been thinking about my Dad a lot recently. Sometimes I read through previous poems to help identify and release my feelings about his death. I found this poem I wrote around a year ago. I realised how many other like minded parents view that you should not let your emotions be affected by anotherContinue reading “Let Me Rest In Peace, My Gentle Dad”
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