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Elissa is a Registered Psychologist dedicated to helping individuals and families overcome their challenges. With a warm...
15/09/2021

Elissa is a Registered Psychologist dedicated to helping individuals and families overcome their challenges. With a warm, empathetic and engaging style she uses a collaborative approach when planning and delivering evidence-based interventions to bring about change with her clients. Call 8865 7375 for more information.

13/09/2021

SITTING UP, BABBLING AND ADDING TEXTURE:
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At about 6 months our babies may start to babble, experimenting with noise and being super playful with their mouths.
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They will copy your mouth and be interested in the noises you make. Blowing raspberries, low sounds high sounds, they may even show a like or a dislike for different noises. This is all leading towards more language and showing us as their big people that they may be ready for a bit more food wise.
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You may just start to thicken up your purees or not blitz them for as long, your baby may even like a more mashed food to play with the texture.
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As we make changes with our babies, always stay with them. Watch their reactions, remember a baby will want to swallow straight away and more texture may mean they have to work the food a bit in their mouth. Staying with them, reassuring them, being aware of the difference in the food you are presenting, allowing them to have a play with the spoon, bowl or food - all engaging your baby’s senses and experimentation with food.
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It is a super messy time with food, and the more relaxed we can be hopefully the more our baby’s will enjoy the experience.

10/09/2021

Parents of low carb children will understand! Especially when children start going to daycare/preschool and everyone gives you a weird look when you try to explain that your child has a low carb, real food dietary requirement for optimal metabolic health.

The 'no upper limit' of fruit and grains on daycare menus is not only frustrating for parents but is setting our children up for poor metabolic health, behavioural issues and gastrointestinal issues.

Let us know in the comments if this is something you have encountered and how you have dealt with it.

An important question to ask in our current difficult climate. Stay safe, be kind and ask, R U OK?
08/09/2021

An important question to ask in our current difficult climate.

Stay safe, be kind and ask, R U OK?

08/09/2021

Looking for Help with Childhood Anxiety in the North West Area?

Cool Kids is an evidence based program for assisting young people (from 5 and up), and their families by providing practical skills and strategies for dealing with anxiety.
These strategies can not only help with getting through the young person's current challenges, but are also life-skills for dealing with other anxiety provoking situations in their life while helping to build resilience.

"Scott", our Lead Psychologist is an accredited facilitator for the 'Cool Kids' program developed by Macquarie University. Scott uses elements of the program while working with families and individuals where anxiety is getting in their way.

Please message or call us if you would like more information, or would like to speak with a member of our team at Synergy Family Psychology:
0478 220 030

03/09/2021

PERIODS OF TRANSITION::
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It is inevitable that in a child's life there will be periods of transition. This can be getting bigger physically - times of rapid growth, it can be getting over a cold or illness, teething, moving house, meeting a new sibling. All of these things are new for our little people and they need our support to deal with these things.
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But equally as parents, the loss of the structure that we have put in place is also hard. A loss of any type of routine is difficult. Especially in lockdown when there isn't much else to focus on.
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A few of my tips for coping with this are
- Try and focus on the good
- Be soft with routines for a bit
- Alter sleep times or bedtime as needed. (generally adding in more will always be my advice!)
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Your child will need your guidance and the safety of knowing that you know what you are doing! There is definitely a bit of faking it involved here! Our kids really need us to be the ones in charge, to help them with that feeling of safety. Guiding them through and walking alongside if they are super tired due to missing naps or frequent wakes through the night, extra connection may be needed.

01/09/2021

Reasons to avoid seed oils:

1. They are pro-inflammatory - chronic inflammation is one of the hallmarks of many lifestyle related diseases
2. They can provoke insulin resistance in people, independent of carbohydrate intake.
3. They are heavily processed and prone to oxidation.

We will always advocate cooking with healthier fats, but many people do not realise these cheaper oils are hidden in many packaged foods, even many supposed low carb and keto foods. Reading ingredient panels is key to making better choices.

18/08/2021

For parents this is such a tricky one. But really for our little people, in the first few years of life we are guiding them through. They need us to help them out. They are still learning. Soft eyes and guiding into the next activity or away from something that is dangerous or not right is how we begin the journey of discipline.
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Sometimes for little ones a day can be filled with ‘no’s’. Thinking about the end goal may help us to reframe this for our little people - so instead of no touching for the hot oven, we may say ‘hands off - the oven is hot!’. This actually tells the child what we want them to do, instead of challenging them to do it anyway. When a child is throwing objects inside, you may say ‘no throwing!’ but follow up with ‘where can we throw?’ or even ‘what can we throw’ depending on the object…
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We can help them with their listening by getting down low, to their level, helping them to hear us, connecting with our eyes, so they see us and we see them, and then speaking.
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If it is time to transition to a new task, we may need to help them with this, helping with putting away toys. If we are gentle in the first few years of life, we help our kids with making good decisions as they get older.

18/08/2021

You can successfully start and continue a ketogenic diet even if you've had your gallbladder removed.

Bile is produced by the liver and stored by the gallbladder. Think of the gallbladder as a handbag for the liver, it stores bile and releases it in response to dietary fat intake. Without the handbag, less concentrated bile is released directly into the intestines.

Tips for keto without a gallbladder:
1. Most people actually transition with no problems
2. if having diarrhoea, gas or bloating then it may be necessary to spread added fats in the diet out over smaller, more frequent meals or start with lower amounts of fat and gradually increase to tolerance
3. Digestive enzymes MAY help to aid in fat digestion

Medical supervision is highly recommended to get it right from the start rather than waste time guessing about how to make the transition. To book a consult email us at info@sydneylowcarb.com.au

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