Emotions. There are a lot of them around at the moment, be they suppressed emotions or very out in the open. Last week, in Scotland, the school exam results came out. Emotions ranging from joy and excitement through relief and ambivalence to disappointment and anxiety are swirling around the country. This week sees the return…
On emotional reasoning
Last time I was musing about our three centres of intelligence. When we can identify where we primarily operate – our head, heart or gut centre – we are then also empowered to notice where we can get stuck. This awareness allows us to then make different and better choices to recruit the other two…
Why it is important to feel all the feelings.
Last week I wrote about the importance of taking time to feel all the feelings associated with the transitions that the children in our lives go through. These musings seem to have struck a real chord with many. The transition is important for your child, but it is also an important marker of what YOU…
On school starts and transitions
How is your heart doing this week? That might be an awfully fluffy way to start but bear with me. Perhaps you have not had time to stop and consider how your heart is, there is far too much to do and life is too busy. And therein lies my point. This week, more than…
How do we go through sadness well?
Last week I was musing here about the sadness experienced in this house, as in many across the country, at our Elder Nearest-and-Dearest leaving home for university. Sadness is an important emotion, and it is there for a reason. We can’t go over it or under it, we have got to go through it (to…
Sadness: got to go through it
Sadness. Can’t go over it, can’t go under it, got to go through it. This has been the refrain running through my head since we deposited Elder Nearest-and-Dearest at her University halls at the weekend. Many, many parents across the country have been doing similar rite-of-passage journeys. For us, the distance is a mere 50…