Thoughts and Ideas

Hospital ward story about motherhood, vulnerability and connection — and how a small Valentine’s card opened the door to courage.

Many parents of children with additional needs carry far more than they realise — emotionally, mentally, and practically. Using the metaphor of a well-loved, overfilled bag, this blog explores how past experiences and beliefs quietly shape how we respond to daily challenges. It offers a gentle invitation to pause, notice what you’re carrying, and decide what still supports you — and what no longer does.

New Years Resolutions are pointless if caring for chronically ill children is part of existence. This process, created and used by me as a coach and hypnotherapist, incorporates gentle support, understanding, perspective, hindsight and foresight to make 2026 an easier and better year.

When professionals run out of answers and exhaustion takes over, parents of children with additional needs begin doubting their own instincts. This post explores why we stop trusting ourselves, how burnout silences our inner voice, and why taking even a brief pause helps us reconnect with our strength, clarity, and the intuition we still have — but can no longer hear.

Many caregiving parents live permanently in “emergency mode” without realising it. This dive into hypervigilance explores why you can’t switch off — and how to gently turn the volume down without blaming or fixing yourself. In Part 1 we talked about what hypervigilance is, now let’s talk about what it does to us long-term and why it’s important to address it. Maybe you recognise the feeling of that constant, wired-but-exhausted state where your nervous system behaves like the