Clare is a  parent educator, speaker, and author. She has written children's picture books such as The Little Paws Hotel that address everyday big emotions and core values.

She is also the author of a handbook for adults, which offers a step-by-step approach on how to have conversations that promote emotional growth. Before becoming a full time writer Clare worked as an Occupational Therapist and LifeCoach.

You can find out all about Clare's work and purchase her books from her website: Clare Luther - Clare Luther

Or follow her on Instagram: Clare Luther (@clarelutherauthor) • Instagram photos and videos

Felicity Ashley knows a thing or two about resilience.

Hips ops, Atlantic rows, Mum to 3 kids, bowel cancer survivor...

Whatever she does, she doesn't give up. Listen to our interview as we explore the million dollar question of whether we are born with resilience or can develop it.

Join me as I talk to my great friend Tei about her journey and what she's learnt along the way!

Find Felicity on her socials, and if you need a Speaker at an event, look no further!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/felicityashley/

Felicity Ashley (@felicityashleyspeaker) • Instagram photos and videosFelicity Ashley Speaker

I'm so excited to introduce you to Rhiannon Gogh.

She is a Chartered Financial Planner and SEN Mum and is the Founder of Carers Academy and SENDA, two new organisations that are seeking to help SEND families avoid the pitfalls of financial and legal planning for their kids with special needs and disabilities.

Rhiannon shares some of her vast knowledge in this podcast and she is passionate about making this information easily available to both parents and carers but also Professionals who are providing vulnerable SEND families with information about ensuring kids with special needs and disabilities are financially taken care of in the future.

It's a tough topic - but Rhiannon brings her professional expertise as well as her empathic understanding of the topic due to her own personal situation.

A great listen, and I guarantee you'll want to know more afterwards!

Instagram & Linkedin: @carersacademy

www.carersacademy.co.uk

SENDA: @senda (Linkedin) and www.senda.org.uk

Sarah Naish is the inspirational CEO of the Centre of Excellence for Child Trauma as well as being an adoptive and foster parent many times over.  Sarah and I chat about her new book, the A-Z of Survival Strategies for Therapeutic Parents.  It's an amazing (and full of hope!) insight into her journey as a therapeutic parent.

Therapeutic parenting, autism, ASD, ADHD, adoption, adoptive parents, reactive attachment disorder, attachment theory, fostering, foster parent, neurodiverse.

What a treat - an interview with the great Sally Donovan, author, blogger, editor and adoptive parent.

If you haven't read any of Sally Donovan's books, I urge you to look them up and buy them.....NOW!  Here she talks more about her newest book, The Strange and Curious Guide to Trauma.  It's aimed at kids between 8 and 12 years old to help them understand what trauma is and how it can affect us all.

It was launched on 21st March 2022 and is now available in all good book stores.

Enjoy!

Trauma, neurodevelopmental trauma, adoption, adoptive parents, adoptive parenting, special needs, additional needs, attachment disorder, PTSD, therapeutic parenting

Does your child try and control you?  How does that feel for you?  In this episode, we try and dig out the root causes of controlling behaviours in kids and find phrases that we can use to help respond empathically to them to help them manage and make sense of those behaviours as they mature.

Sometimes, kids who display behaviours such as emotional or physical shut down or who like to hide away don't get as much airtime as those who display big behaviours such as anger or rage.  But let's not ignore these behaviours - they are still a sign of struggle.  Let's look at what we can say to kids in shut down or who are hiding away and how our words and actions can help them.

How do you deal with lies?  They're hard to accept and understand.  But how you respond to your lying fizzy kid may help them learn to not lie in the future.  

Why do fizzy kids get hyperactive?  And what can we say and do for them in those moments to help them re-regulate? Join me as we look beyond the behaviours and find phrases and strategies to help our hyperactive kids.

We're not shying away from difficult topics this season - in this podcast we find language that can help in situations where your child may be hitting or hurting you and/or others.  We explore phrases that may help during an incident, after an incident and also language to use with siblings who are witnessing these difficult moments.