The word tolerance keeps coming up when talking with parents. Tolerance for the whole thing. Tolerance for the trying to get pregnant, being pregnant, tolerance for the grief of miscarriage, the lack of sleep, unwell children, the repetitiveness, the word no and tolerance for those...
Parenting is a mixed bag. At any one time in can be exciting, tiring, frustrating, over-whelming, thrilling and just flipping hard work. With this role comes a huge amount of responsibility. Depending on how this responsibility is related to has a huge impact on our...
When I asked one of the Mum’s if she could write something about her experience of developing as a compassionate parent, I was blown away by what she wrote and how she tells us that compassion acts as a container for her difficult emotions that...
The various workshops and initiatives Resilient Minds provide supports schools, parents and individuals to develop their own Compassionate techniques. This means learning new ways of talking to ourselves, new ways of relating to problems and developing emotional resilience. The work is based largely on Compassion...
At the core of Resilient Minds Workshops and psychotherapeutic practice is Compassionate Mind Training. This is a way of training our minds to be at their most helpful by develop certain skills and qualities. This then helps us to relate to our difficult feelings -...