Imagine you come home to a beautifully wrapped gift on your table. If it is your birthday, and you live with someone – you may feel...

Have you ever heard “Do as I say, not as I do.” Well, as a parent and as a professional I’m here to tell you, it doesn’t work! And, it is...

What do you feed it? (Healthy stuff vs stuff you know is bad for them, like junk food?) What do you give it to drink? (Water? Milk? vs...

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I am comfortable with feelings                 True/ False If you answered True, read on, it will probably validate what you already know...

Here is a 5 min video summary about how and why we form Survival maps. see if you can see yourself in any of the descriptions. We have...

The way it happens is always the same…so let’s look at some actual examples and what we can do about it! Isabella (not their real name)...

Inevitably, the positive face triggered positive thoughts and emotions and not surprisingly, the negative one did the opposite. Then we...

We teach kids how to be safe around fire, around strangers, at the park…but how many of us were taught to be safe at home and within...

This sounds like a post only for parents- but don’t be fooled! Click through to read the ILM Practical Parenting Newsletter. Summer 2015....

I was recently working with a lovely young woman who had Social Anxiety. Here is how the story goes…(she gave me permission to share this...

This energy either gets funneled into anxiety, or defenses, like we talked about in “Feel Like Louis CK”. PROJECTION is the main defense...

Most of us learned that if we work hard, we will eventually be happy, but all of the science actually shows that the opposite is true!...

Have you ever been at a happy event but felt miserable? Have you ever been at what others would say is a sad or unhappy event and felt...

Attachment styles are patterns of behaviour intended to ensure our needs are met. It is ultimately designed to protect us, but it is not...

The Still Face Experiment, by Dr. Edward Tronick, is a powerful 3 min video that demonstrates how we, as humans, have a hard-wired need...

We talked about the health benefits of gratitude a while back in the post “3 Things About Gratitude“. Today we have a simple invitation...

Our experience of life comes down to where we choose to focus our attention. Imagine going through life focusing on what you DON’T want-...

I came to the wonderful game of rugby rather late in life. It is a game that, like many others, has valuable lessons built into it. The...

Of the many qualities that dogs and children share, one of the most important is that they both look to you to create a loving caring...