Healing Hearts Child and Family Therapy

05/07/2025

31/03/2025

This is a great document that helps to explain how play therapy can help a range of children and presentations

30/03/2025

Inside Parenting 💗

13/02/2025

Sometimes we expect more from our children than we can even manage ourselves!

ParentsTogether 💕

26/12/2024

It’s vital that you care for and nurture YOU so you can show up and be the best version of yourself for your kids. Put your own oxygen mask on, so that you can help save your children. Parenting is hard, so be kind and compassionate to yourself!

10/12/2024

I think this is a really important message, especially at this time of the year. All of the excitement and anticipation can push our children and ourselves outside of our windows of tolerance. In order to have compassion for others, it is so important to have self-compassion

10/12/2024

Understanding the states of the nervous system is essential to understand what is driving behaviour. It can be useful to use animal metaphors to help children to understand the different states and feelings/sensations. And this great resource has some useful strategies to try as well

06/12/2024

Parenting For Brain 💕

01/12/2024

Self-regulation is not the job of the child. Self-regulation is the by product of many, many experiences of co-regulation. And self-regulation is not a skill that once learnt means that we won’t rely on others for co-regulation because as human beings connection is essential to survival.

30/11/2024

27/11/2024

As children, many people were taught that there are good feelings and bad feelings, and that bad feelings should be avoided at all costs. But all feelings provide us with information. And feelings that are repressed, always find a way to be expressed.

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27/11/2024

Welcome to the Play room! This is where the magic happens - where children learn to believe in themselves, to recognise their strengths, to integrate and process traumas of their past, to increase their emotional understanding and begin to expand their windows of tolerance and their ability to self-regulate.