by Vanessa Lewis | Jan 27, 2016 | Parenting, toddlers
Last year I did this great podcast with Monique (the Nourished Psychologist) where we covered what to avoid for when choosing food for toddlers or even older. The toddler years are crucial when it comes to food because not only are you formulating their palate but...
by Vanessa Lewis | Jan 19, 2016 | Parenting, toddlers
It’s a hideous headline, I know! But unfortunately both the “Taming your Toddler” and “Terrible Twos” terms were coined by previous parenting authors as a way of connecting to frustrated parents and this was prior to understanding how a...
by Vanessa Lewis | Jan 13, 2016 | Parenting, parenting styles, Relationships, Stress & Anxiety
I took a break from work over the Christmas period and switched onto a documentary called Making of a Murder on Netflix. Here’s the over view of this series… Netflix’s Making a Murderer — a bleak, somber true crime documentary that consists mainly...
by Vanessa Lewis | Nov 26, 2015 | Parenting, parenting styles, Relationships
Fear based parenting drives you to be controlling, to pull the reins in, to be that “proactive” parent who’s making sure their toddler/child/teen isn’t going to grow into a drug addict or drunk like your mother/father/grandarent/brother/sister...
by Vanessa Lewis | Sep 7, 2015 | EFT, Family Constellation, Parenting, Relationships, Reslience, Stress & Anxiety
The are also unconscious, part of our emotional brain, and drive you to meet a need. You can’t talk your way out of an emotional need, because the emotional brain hijacks you. It’s easy to meet that need when you’re in a good mood. It’s harder...
by Vanessa Jane | Jul 26, 2015 | food and mood, Parenting
I thought I just had a high spirited energetic little boy, one that I could handle but it seems others struggled with. It was when I moved him to a new daycare lady (the previous one asked me to find a new one) that I first heard about the impact of food on...
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