As parents, we’ve all been there: picking up our child from school, expecting smiles and excitement to see us, but instead, we’re met with grumpy moods, meltdowns, or a child who’s suddenly “out of sorts.” You might wonder, “What happened? They were fine this morning!” The truth is, what you’re witn...

Play has a wide variety of physical, mental, emotional, and social health benefits. It is far from being a light-hearted, purposeless activity, play is crucial to the development of our physical bodies and brains, as well as our social and emotional wellbeing.  

1.    It Helps to Build a Healthy...

Going to therapy is hard enough for adults. Stigma stops many of us from picking up the phone and making an appointment. Plus, therapy is hard work. It often requires revealing our vulnerabilities, delving into difficult challenges, changing unhealthy patterns of behaviour and learning new skills.

Before having my own child, I worked with children and youth with “challenging behaviours”. I would go into their family homes, work with their teachers and support the families as a whole.

Many of the children I worked with had been through significant trauma, abuse, and life changing circumstance...