Until I learned about active listening, I thought I was a pretty good listener. Yet, through a Non Violent Communication training course 15 years ago, all the wrong boxes checked on what I was going to say next or bringing the conversation about me to show I really understood my speaker. Therefore, active listening was not happening, at all. It’s a skill, that needs to be developed like any other. During the course, we did listening exercises of reformulating what we heard on

The last podcast of The Curiosity Shop With Brené Brown and Adam Grant with Simon Sinek mentioned a study "Children's Proneness to Shame and guilt predict risky and illegal behaviors in young adulthood" by Jeffrey Stuewig, 2015, Child Psychiatry and Human Development. During the podcast, they also mentioned the importance of the parental/caregiver role in the early childhood years on what strategies were used to childrearing and its impact on a guilt vs. shame response. I'd a

Let's be honest, parenting is not always a walk in the park. It's downright hard. Regularly, we are faced with feeling powerless, lack of...