Working At Home with Kids.. Staying Alive!
How are you doing? This has been a hard time… ESPECIALLY if you are working from home AND making sure your children are taken care of. Please give yourself a break.. lower your expectations and praise the shit out of your kids when they do better! Here are some...
Motivate Your Child and Teen to Reach for Their Goals
It’s a new year, and so many are scared to step into the unknow after the year that we have had. When emotions get big we have different ways of handling them. We can shut down, avoid, be indifferent. This can come across as being lazy, or not caring. Act out,...
Dealing with Another Lockdown: Tips to Help You and Your Children
It’s hard not to let your emotions swallow you up. Another lockdown means more isolation and more time with your children. It can bring on feelings of being overwhelmed, anxiety, frustration, irritation, helplessness, sadness and resentment. We have no control...
I Guess This is Good Enough: My Health Journey
Last year I meet a woman that would help me see that settling when it came to my health was not OK. I was feeling good enough. I wasn’t in pain, or in huge discomfort, it’s really nothing… or was it? At a certain age you just get a “mummy...
What Would you Say to Younger Self as a New Mom?
Motherhood is such an amazing gift. I grew up playing with dolls and playing house with my sister. I cherished my dolls, especially the one that would cry when I pulled it’s soother out. Whenever there was family and friends party, I would love to play with the...
Supporting Someone Through Loss
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Dealing with loss is difficult. The emotions are intense and draining, so painful that we don’t want to feel them. When we watch others deal with death and loss it can be uncomfortable. We don’t like to see it. In an...
Hyper-Parenting It’s NOT Good for Your Children
When you have children all you want to do is bundle them up in bubble wrap and keep them safe forever. Babies do need to be protected … but when do you start preparing them for life? It actually starts sooner than you think. Children from a young age want to do...
My Mummy Tummy is Gone!
Mummy tummy is gone! No more bloat I didn’t know there was anything wrong. I didn’t realize that acne, bloat and gas was my body telling me I’M NOT HAPPY! I never questioned it. I just accepted it. When I met Dr Georgia Parousis she said she could...
New Year, New Me?
Photo by Lethu Zimu on Unsplash New year, new you! What does that statement mean? It implies you aren’t who you need to be and BIG changes need to be made. This doesn’t motivate anyone to change. When you feel you NEED to change or have to change, the goal...
Meet Michelle
I’m a child life specialist, a family and corporate consultant, speaker, TV host, author, wife and mother.
