This wonderful poem is by Linda Ellis and can be shared if non profit making. In the written form these dates show up side by side, start date and end date separated by a simple form of punctuation - the dash. This “dash” that separates these dates is what symbolizes the time between these two dates, in essence it is your life. How are you living your dash?

At some point in our lives, almost every one of us will have our heart broken. Imagine how different things would be if we paid more attention to this unique emotional pain. Psychologist Guy Winch reveals how recovering from heartbreak starts with a determination to fight our instincts to idealize and search for answers that aren't there -- and offers a toolkit on how to, eventually, move on. Our hearts might sometimes be broken, but we don't have to break with them. This talk was presented at an official TED conference, and was featured by it's editors on the home page.

New Year, maybe a resolution or two? Perhaps try something different and focus on finding something to be grateful for each day? Build positive neural pathways to help balance those negative neural pathways. Happiness is now.

Yes, there are yet more reasons for getting a good night's sleep. The brain uses a quarter of the body's entire energy supply, yet only accounts for about two percent of the body's mass. So how does this unique organ receive and, perhaps more importantly, rid itself of vital nutrients? New research suggests it has to do with sleep. Jeff Iliff talks us through current thinking.

"See a child differently, you see a different child." The language we use can change how we view our children and how they view themselves. With the Christmas holidays soon upon us, it can bring with it the challenges of managing children's behaviour during an already stressful time. The mindset we have when we view and handle "bad" behaviour can often change the outcome. Sometimes children are stressed or frustrated due to tiredness, worry or fear - lack of control or even lack of skills. Be curious. Ask how you can help. It might just change the outcome - the usual pattern of behaviour. "See a child differently, you see a different child."

5 tips on how to start a conversation about mental health: 5 people with experience of mental health problems give us their top tips on how to start a conversation about mental health. We all have mental health so ask how someone is, listen without judgement and remember, your solution may not be theirs. Listening and being there, offering empathy and respect, can be enough. Find more about how talking tackles mental health discrimination with https://www.time-to-change.org.uk.

What is love? It can be many things from passion, to strong affection, to care and commitment. Should it hurt? Should it evoke fear? Should it be about control? If these things are happening to you, then is it love? Perhaps now is the time to check it out. Domestic Violence call lines can support you - see my Useful Information page for phone numbers. Love is being safe. Keep safe.

This is a brilliant animation from Talking Mental Health designed to help begin conversations about mental health in the classroom and beyond. The animation and accompanying resources have been created by a team of animators, children, teachers and clinicians, and is being taught to year 5 and 6 children around the UK. For more resources, including the free Teacher Toolkit, please visit the Schools in Mind pages at www.annafreud.org.

Inspired by recent Attachment Focused Therapy training with Barnardo's and Thrive training with Hampshire County Council - a quotation encapsulating the significance of a supportive environment. How healing this can be. Lives can be changed for the better.

Here, the inspirational Bryan Post presents a very different understanding of the effects of child abuse and neglect and the long lasting behaviours that often result from these life experiences, along with how we can help these most vulnerable children. This information relates to children and teens alike. Children labelled with a diagnosis of Reactive Attachment Disorder, Oppositional Defiance, Attention Deficit Disorder, Autism, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Depression, Hyperactivity, (to name just a few) often present with behaviour which are challenging to parents and educators. His approach, however, can help any parent and child. His understanding and parenting philosophy can change your family for the better - for life! The Post Institute is the leading publisher of love based family centred parenting for adopted, fostered and diagnosed children. This Attachment Focused approach to parenting difficult children empowers parents to create a healing environment in the lives of children that have experienced trauma. How do they do it? With love. The kind of love that there is nothing a child has to do to earn it, and nothing a child may do that will lose it.

Having spent some time training in Attachment Focused Therapy to work with parents and children, I wanted to share the above slide. All behaviour is a way of communicating unmet needs. How we respond to our children will be influenced by our own attachment style. Building a strong, secure attachment means responding to and meeting our children's needs through playfulness, acceptance, curiosity and empathy, or PACE. So, forget 'time out'...our children need 'time in!'

Why do we form such strong attachment to our things? Christian Jarrett takes us through the psychology of ownership From witnessing the “violent rage” shown by babies whenever deprived of an item they considered their own, Jean Piaget – a founding father of child psychology – observed something profound about human nature: our sense of ownership emerges incredibly early.