My Coaching blog

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1st September 2024

Parenting triggers and hot emotions

Triggers and taking accountability for why they happen. Learning to calm our heightened state of emotions. Hot emotions are a window into our past.

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16th August 2024

When your teenager is rude and how to handle it

How to manage a teenager’s rudeness. Authoritative versus authoritarian parenting styles. The rewards for not rising to the bait.

20th May 2024

Leadership Skills

How awareness of a coaching style of leadership develops more confident and able employees.

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29th April 2024

How a DISC assessment improves workplace performance

What DISC stands for and how it benefits communication, collaboration and levels of empathy in the workplace

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19th April 2024

Teens and Building Confidence

Confidence and how parents can support their teen son or daughter to build self-confidence.

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26th March 2024

Teen Life Skills

A look at four key life skills that parents can help their teens learn. They benefit from this period at home to get ready for independent living. There is no reason in the modern era why sons are leaving home not able to cook or carry out domestic tasks on a regular basis. It is of huge benefit to a teen with their expanded brain capacity to develop good daily habits in the present. It is easier to adopt new positive habits as a young adult leaving home compared to trying to break fossilised habits gained over a number of years.

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8th March 2024

Being a Teen Today

The downside of making social comparisons. The insecurities that have always marked the stage of adolescence. What has made it even harder to be a teen now. How the global reach of social media and making comparisons has increased the negative impact on teen’s self-esteem. What can be done to reverse this habit and build better self-confidence.

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1st March 2024

The Teenage Brain

The teenage brain has been likened to a brand new Ferrari

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17th January 2024

Regulating emotions with self-management

There are a few key skills that adolescents need help with in their journey to independence. One of the key skills is learning to regulate their emotions. This is also called self-management.