In Your Corner Hypnotherapy & NLP

25/09/2025

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12/09/2025

We waste so much energy chasing the mirage of perfect parenting — as if somewhere out there is a flawless script, the exact right words, the single formula that guarantees success.

But perfection is a fool’s errand. It doesn’t exist, and it was never the goal.

There isn’t one right way to parent. There are a million good ones.

Even in the same family, two children raised under the same roof will need different things — one might crave structure, the other freedom; one needs more space, the other more closeness. What works wonders for one, may wound another.

That’s why parenting can’t be about rigid rules or comparing ourselves to someone else’s highlight reel.

It’s about responding to the child in front of us, over and over again. It’s about adjusting, experimenting, and choosing presence over perfection.

The destination isn’t raising children who check every box or meet every milestone on time. It’s raising human beings who know kindness, who practice compassion, who understand respect, who carry the quiet confidence that they were loved.

Perfection isn’t possible. But good? Good has a million different doorways.

And every day we show up with love, humility, and willingness to learn — we’re already walking through one of them. ❤️

Quote Credit: Jill Churchill❣️

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12/09/2025

Young children don’t have the perspective to say, “Mom’s stressed from work” or “Dad’s carrying old wounds.” They only have the here and now.

And in that moment, our tone, our sigh, our anger, our withdrawal — it doesn’t read as stress or trauma to them. It reads as “this is about me.”

They don’t yet understand context. They don’t know that adults carry invisible weights. What they know is the look on our face, the sharpness in our voice, the silence that feels colder than words.

And from those little cues, they start drawing big conclusions about themselves: Am I too much? Am I not enough? Did I cause this?

That’s the weight children carry when they’re too little to separate our inner battles from their worth. And it’s why doing our own work matters so deeply.

Because when we tend to the roots we inherited — the bad days, the unprocessed pain, the patterns passed down — we stop them from being misread as rejection.

Our kids don’t need us to be perfect. They need us to be aware. To notice how our words shape the narrative they’re writing about themselves. To remember that our moods may pass, but their interpretations often linger.

What we leave unresolved in ourselves risks becoming the script they carry into their own lives.

Because what spills out of us doesn’t just land in the air — it lands in them. And that awareness alone can change the story they grow up believing about themselves. ❤️

Quote Credit: Missy Willis❣️

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11/09/2025

Sometimes I find it’s all too easy to wish the noise away. The slammed doors, the endless reminders, the trail of shoes across the floor. Some days it feels like too much, and I just long for a little peace.

But every stage has an endpoint. One day the house will be quiet in a way that isn’t temporary, and I suspect I’ll notice the absence of all the things that once drove me mad.

Because the truth is, the noise isn’t just chaos — it’s life in motion. It’s proof they’re here, growing, testing, becoming. And even when it wears me out, I know it means I’m right in the middle of their story, not watching from the sidelines.

The interruptions I complain about now may turn out to be the very details I look back on with longing. The chaos, the mess, the constant calls of “what’s for dinner?” — this is the texture of their childhood, and of my parenthood.

It won’t last forever. And when it shifts into something new, I know I’ll remember it not as an inconvenience, but as the evidence of a life fully lived — and deeply loved — together. ❤️

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08/09/2025

We keep telling ourselves “maybe when the kids are older…” as if life is waiting on us. But this is it. These noisy, messy, exhausting days are the life we’ll look back on.

There will always be reasons to wait — more money, more energy, more order. But if we keep postponing joy until the “perfect time,” we’ll miss the only time that actually exists: now.

Life doesn’t pause until the conditions are ideal. It unfolds in the chaos, the fatigue, the interruptions. And if we can learn to live it here — in the middle of it all — we won’t look back wishing we had started sooner.

Because tomorrow isn’t promised. And the perfect time? It never comes.

This is the season. This is the gift. Don’t wait to live it. ❤️

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08/09/2025

For generations, we’ve been taught that
‘family comes first, no matter what.’
But what does that sometimes teach our kids? That their feelings don’t matter? That they should endure mistreatment because of a title someone holds in their life?

This isn’t about encouraging division or abandoning family; it’s about teaching our children their worth. It’s about helping them understand that love and respect must flow both ways, even within family dynamics.

By encouraging children to maintain relationships with those who hurt them emotionally, we unintentionally send the message that they should prioritise loyalty over self-respect, no matter the cost.

It’s a tough truth to face, but an essential one. Because we have the power to change this narrative...

We can tell our kids that boundaries are an act of love — love for themselves and, sometimes, even for others. We can show them that all relationships should be built on shared understanding and genuine care, not obligation.

We should teach our kids that true, healthy relationships will never require them to doubt their value or sacrifice their emotional safety.

And of course that family, above all, should be rooted in love and loyalty — but a loyalty that is mutual, respectful, and never at the expense of their self-worth. ❤️

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01/09/2025

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30/08/2025

The power of 'AND'. Walking the middle path.

28/08/2025

Very true this