Time Management: Finding Motivation for Tasks
Risa Williams is the author of several books, including the upcoming The Ultimate Time Management Toolkit. Are everyday mundane tasks getting you down lately? Do…
Category: Anxiety
Assessing children in the therapy room through play
Creative Ways to Help Children Manage Anxiety by Fiona Zandt and Suzanne Barrett is packed with therapeutic activities to help children aged 4-12 years and…
Don’t feed the trolls – an extract from ‘Things I Got Wrong So You Don’t Have To’ by Pooky Knightsmith
Don’t feed the trolls – an extract from ‘Things I Got Wrong So You Don’t Have To’ by Pooky Knightsmith As an internationally respected campaigner,…
“It’s okay to accept myself as I am” – Q&A with Cara Lisette
“It’s okay to accept myself as I am” – Q&A with Cara Lisette Journaling the way to recovery … With 19-years lived experience of anorexia,…
Why do some of us struggle with panic symptoms and some of us don’t?
Why do some of us struggle with panic symptoms and some of us don’t? Taken from the first and third chapters of Free From Panic…
Highgate Cemetery, Skulls, and Puccini: David Veale on How ‘Memento Mori’ Can Help You Live Life to the Fullest
Highgate Cemetery, Skulls, and Puccini: David Veale on How ‘Memento Mori’ Can Help You Live Life to the Fullest In this blogpost, David Veale, co-author…
Uncertainty: the root of anxiety in so many students with SpLDs
Clare Ward & James Galpin explain their theory behind why uncertainty is the root cause of anxiety for people universally, and especially for students with special educational needs.
Our Autistic Daughter’s Struggle to be Understood
Our Autistic Daughter’s Struggle to be Understood Why Can’t You Hear Me? is the story of Colette McCulloch, an extraordinary young woman, her struggles with…
Why do we need to look beyond ‘mental disorders’ when handling intense emotions?
Here Bridie Gallagher writes about why we need to explore beyond the ‘illness narrative’ to understand why people might feel the way they do.
Books to help ease the transition back to school
Back to school – helping children feel comfortable with the transition We may not yet be able to gauge the full impact the lockdown has…