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Webinars now open for booking
Edited to add: only the SLEEP one is now available and is selling fast. Places are LIMITED and I can’t increase capacity. These webinars are

Children’s Mental Health Week – I’m helping adults
Every week is Children’s Mental Health Week for me. And everyone who knows my work knows that there are two sides to my work for young

Who’s feeling hyper-stimulated and yet unmotivated? Alert and yet low?
“I am finding that my life is going at a zillion miles an hour in this remote learning/working/teaching existence. Not sure how good it is.

Mood is contagious – who knew!
A friend who knows I work in teenage mental health sent me this link to a report on a new piece of research. Teenagers can

Awesome Sleep: sleep positives and negatives
To celebrate today’s publication of The Awesome Power of Sleep, I’m sharing two simple lists which are at the core of a good sleep pattern.

Schools, what can I do for you?
I can’t imagine how hard it is to be a teacher or school leader right now. I do, however, see glimpses each time a school

Happy New Year and Happy Self! (And happy news and journal GIVEAWAY)
The word “happy” is often used thoughtlessly; often in a saccharine, bland, shallow way. We say “Happy New Year” or “Happy Christmas” as a reflex,

Read, sleep, relax, give and hope (and book GIVEAWAY)
It’s a Christmas like no other at the end of a year like no other. Most of us have had to deal with at best

Building connections with your teenage boy or girl
Good parents want to build and maintain connections with their teenagers but it can be hard. I recently had an email from a mother, who

#52 of 52 Ways to Wellbeing – Use your holidays well
It’s about to be holiday time for many. So, it’s fitting that the final of 52 Ways to Wellbeing urges you to use your holidays

How to Teach Self-Conscious Teenagers On Video
Teenagers are typically highly self-conscious. (I talk about this during my events for parents and teachers. Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore introduced me to this concept some

#51 of 52 Ways to Wellbeing – Something to look forward to
I started 52 Ways to Wellbeing on January 6th 2018. Nearly three years later, embarrassingly, I’m only at #51, after posting #50 more than a