Listening Partnerships are intentional, mutual relationships between two people (or more) who agree to offer each other non-judgmental, validating, and uninterrupted listening. The process may be simple, but the emotional release and connection it fosters can be deeply transformative.

When your child is hurting, it can feel like your heart is breaking. If they’re being bullied or feeling unsafe at school, you might feel overwhelmed, confused, and unsure how to respond — or how to help.

I’ve pulled together a nervous system-informed Parent Guide to Bullying, to help you feel more grounded and empowered in your response.

Sibling conflict can feel relentless, loud, and deeply triggering — especially when you’re already stretched thin. But beneath the surface of the squabbles, power struggles, and outbursts lies something deeper: immature nervous systems doing their best to handle big feelings, unmet needs, and a rapidly changing environment.

For many, motherhood can feel relentless. Despite all the love, many mothers find themselves overwhelmed, exhausted, and wondering if they’re doing enough. The pressure to meet expectations—both internal and external—can be crushing. You are not alone in these struggles, and your challenges are not a reflection of your worth. This article explores common struggles mothers face and offers small, practical steps toward healing and self-compassion.

School is a huge adjustment—whether your child is just starting, returning after a break, or moving into a new grade. For some kids, it’s a happy reunion with friends and a familiar routine. But for others, school can feel overwhelming, unfulfilling, or even scary.

Almost every mother experiences anger. Almost every mother acts on feeling angry during challenging moments. Many mothers experience it deeply as yelling, screaming, adult tantrums and sometimes even physical harm such as smacking/spanking or other intense physical expressions that can be frightening to both the child AND the mother.

We have been conditioned to believe that we are in control of our lives and we often carry this belief into motherhood. We want the perfect birth, the right clothes, the baby that sleeps and well behaved children. And what if none of that happens? What if it feels like you are completely out of control, nothing is working out the way you expected in motherhood and you are wracked with guilt and shame.

It's no secret that parenting a child in the midst of a tantrum is hard. Children are emotional, and so too are adults. However, most of us have learned to stifle our emotions, especially the more challenging ones like anger, sadness, grief, rage, disappointment, (and so on), to keep the peace.

Radical self care is about taking responsibility of getting your own needs met FIRST before you attempt to take care of others (or at least at the same time). This gives you more capacity to meet the mammoth daily tasks – physically and emotionally – in motherhood, relationships and your community.

Feel like you are overwhelmingly exhausted? You are NOT alone.

Research by a UK children’s charity Action for Children has found more than 80% of parents are struggling with at least one symptom of burnout due to the COVID-19 pandemic. …

One of the most difficult and challenging parts of early parenthood is when your sweet baby hits the toddler stage and starts to have some BIG feelings. Read more about how to listen and support your child through tears, tantrums and meltdowns. …

New motherhood comes with many expectations, often unspoken but deeply ingrained. Expectations that you must be a ‘good, happy, calm and present mother’. You will likely have high expectations of yourself, others around you, as well as societal, financial and career expectations….

Like many parents, you may be coping with your own emotional pains, pandemic stress, anxiety, as well as a lack of support and village. You will inevitably crack some days and explode at your sweet child. Here is how to repair the disconnection on those tough days. …