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Motherhood: what I learnt when I became a mother
Exploring motherhood lessons and the myth that to be a good mother you need to be self-sacrificing.
Motherhood, Parenting, Raising children, Self-love, Breastfeeding, Children
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What does it mean to be a teenager – the modern day myth of adolescence
What does it mean to grow up? What does it mean to be a teenager? Have we come to accept adolescence to be the ‘reckless years’ or a preparation for adulthood? Adolescence is a time that we can offer support to young people in their transition to adulthood.
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Best Mother’s Day gift ever!
The best Mother’s Day gift ever is unwrapping the roles and expectations we put on ourselves as women when it comes to mothering. The perfect mother is not just an ideal, it’s an impossibility, but what’s the alternative to trying to make everyone around you happy?
Exhaustion, Motherhood, Parenting, Raising children, Mother's Day
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Relationship Groups, Presentations And Workshops
Relationship Groups, Presentations and Workshops offered by Universal Medicine
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Adapting to our environment
Watch part of Jean Gamble’s presentation at the Psychological Wellbeing Conference in 2013 where she shares how men and women are encouraged to adapt to their environment from a young age.
Children, Connection, Counseling, Education, Mental health, Nurturing, Parenting, Healthy relationships
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Bringing up Boys. An insight from a father of seven. Part 1
What do we need to do as men in bringing up boys? Mark Gavioli unfolds his experiences of raising boys and what being a father can and perhaps should allow for.
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Bringing up Boys. An insight from a father of seven. Part 2
What do we need to do as men in bringing up boys? Mark Gavioli unfolds his experiences of raising boys and what being a father can and perhaps should allow for.
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Building true relationships and positive parenting
Jean Gamble has a knack of making us laugh out loud whilst sharing profound and life changing observations. If you have children, a partner, family, friends or anyone else you would like to relate to then this is a must!
Communication, Evolution, Healthy relationships, Parenting, Love, Raising children
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Good parenting skills
Rather than give advice to children – listen, connect and explain the consequences
Parenting, Presence, Communication, Appreciation, Psychology, Feelings, Hurt, Confidence, Self-esteem
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Childhood obesity: what are we doing to our children?
With the alarming increase in childhood obesity and overweight children in the world, are we looking at the deeper causes? What can parents do differently?
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Food, family cultures and our (not so) hidden attitudes towards food
Is our attitude to food like a formula one race pit stop - necessary but not truly valued, and an interruption to other more important things? Do we rather keep those around us happy when it comes to food choices, than be true to our own bodies!
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Bringing up boys to become glorious men!
There is much that occurs in the journey from boy to man. Read on to find out what is troubling boys and how we can bring up and support our boys to become glorious men.
Parenting, Raising children, Gentleness, Hardness, Tenderness
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Is striving to be the good mother really what true mothering is?
Mothering can be a comforting yet uncomfortable job for many women. Although a vast library of information already exists on mothering, this article offers a fresh perspective on this subject.
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More to us than just the physical
Our Audio of the Month for July 2021 presents on our true capacity to love and how there is much more to us than our physical body.
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Joining the dots between maternal and infant mental health
Motherhood is a time of great change. How can women best manage their mental health for the sake of themselves and their infant?
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Building true relationships
Released in February 2015, the month of Valentine’s Day, this profound and yet highly entertaining audio provides us with practical tips on how to bring greater love into our relationships with partners, children and family.
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Motherhood beyond our children
A beautiful piece revealing there is more to mothering than meets the eye
Motherhood, Parenting, Raising children, Children, Healthy relationships
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Being a good mother – comfort or responsibility?
For a mother, mothering and providing comfort for our children seems a normal responsibility of life, however are we doing too much for our children and preventing them from experiencing life in full?
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Parenting and Self-Care – Crashing the ‘Helicopter Parenting’ myth
Falling for the ‘helicopter parenting’ ideal. Have you become a slave to your children?
Parenting, Raising children, Exhaustion, Family, Burnout, Healthy relationships
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I’m a dad ... How do I show affection to my teenage daughter?
Puberty can be a difficult time for both fathers and daughters. This article offers support for fathers in understanding why they can often feel uncomfortable and how they can be with their daughters through puberty, with the continued flowing affection their ‘little girls’ may have grown up with.
Abuse, Confidence, Mental health, Parenting, Raising children, Relationships
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Bringing up Boys. An insight from a father of seven. Part 4
What do we need to do as men in bringing up boys? Mark Gavioli unfolds his experiences of raising boys and what being a father can and perhaps should allow for.
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Pregnancy glow & postnatal depression
What is it about pregnancy that makes a woman feel fabulous and glow? What is postnatal depression really about?
Pregnancy, Birth, Parenting, Motherhood, Sacredness, Stillness
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Bringing up Boys. An insight from a father of seven. Part 3
What do we need to do as men in bringing up boys? Mark Gavioli unfolds his experiences of raising boys and what being a father can and perhaps should allow for.
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Teenage drug abuse – Is it just a passing phase?
If you are thinking teenage drug taking is a ‘just a passing phase’, read one mother’s deeper understanding of this.
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The mother baby bonding process – is it always automatic?
All mothers want to be ‘good mothers who love their babies’, but it doesn’t always go to plan. What happens when baby bonding doesn’t happen?
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Motherhood 101: an all-encompassing mothering
Is the quality of our mothering of others influenced by the quality of our mothering of ourselves? Debasing the notions that mothering yourself is selfish and asking for help is an indication of failure.
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Work, mothering and female empowerment part 1 – where are we truly at?
As women, it seems we have made considerable progress towards attaining greater gender equality, work-life balance and female empowerment. But how much has really changed, and at what cost?
Empowerment, Parenting, Work life balance, Gender equality, Anxiety
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How to support mothers in dealing with anxiety
Have you noticed the way that anxiety is creeping into the mothering sphere more regularly these days? Let’s consider taking a fresh approach for understanding mothers experiencing anxiety!
Anxiety, Motherhood, Parenting, Pregnancy, Performance anxiety
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Comparison: the unspoken side of being pregnant, giving birth and mothering
Being pregnant, giving birth and mothering are usually much anticipated and regarded as special parts of many women’s lives. But rather than enjoying this period, women are often left feeling unsettled and unfulfilled, yet find it hard to work out why.
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Why do our children need to self-medicate with junk food, energy drinks and smoking?
This article explores why our children are prone to self-medicating with harming activities: the answer lies very close to home…
Addiction, Raising children, Role models, Parenting, Children
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What if we gave children the space to develop at their own pace?
It can be easy for parents to become anxious about their child’s early development, but what if we gave children the space to learn in their own time?
Education, Parenting, Children, Acceptance, Anxiety, Raising children, School
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Bringing up Boys. An insight from a father of seven. Part 5
What do we need to do as men in bringing up boys? Mark Gavioli unfolds his experiences of raising boys and what being a father can and perhaps should allow for.
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School stress: The real test at school
Does a successful week at school mean coming top of the class? Maybe there is a greater feat for kids, even more difficult to achieve – how to stay yourself with everyday school stress! Do we accept school stress as ‘the norm'?
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Observations exposing the myths surrounding single women
As the number of single women within society grows, it’s timely for us all to examine and expose some of the old stereotypes we may have accepted without question around singlehood, coupled relationships and women’s roles in life.
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Gender based violence – where does it begin? Do we really want to know?
What is a man of true quality? If violence has no true value then there cannot be any truth in making violence a core characteristic of predominant masculine identities.
Domestic violence, Parenting, Raising children, Gender equality, Education, Behaviour, Abuse, Gender
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From being a good mother to true mothering
Mothering from a place of comfort, while seemingly ‘comfortable’, is not comfortable. So what does this even mean?
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Motherhood: why am I not enjoying it more?
Is motherhood actually lessening in quality under the assumption a mother has to go it alone, and is there a call for the return to community mothering and support?
Motherhood, Parenting, Raising children, Children, Healthy relationships, Role models
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Goldilocks, Barbie and Porn Stars
Do you remember the storybooks you read and the favourite games that you played as a child? How has ‘playtime’ changed and what does this mean?
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Motherless mothers – finding our way back to wholeness and love
Explores the deep grief women carry when they don’t have a mother and how mothering from within can heal this.
Motherhood, Love, Parenting, Raising children, Family, Children
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Chocolate – what drives us to eat it?
Society teaches us to always look outside of ourselves for love, recognition and so forth. Just like chocolate advertisements, we are told the grass is greener . . .
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Just wait ‘til your father gets home!
"Just wait ‘til your father gets home", a perfect illustration of the model of man we have created, but in being a father is there more of our tenderness we can let out?
Family, Children, Connection, Healthy relationships, Intimacy, Parenting
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Obesity, food and fasting
Food and Obesity are connected but not in the way one may expect.
Domestic violence, Hurt, Obesity, Parenting, Eating disorder
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Breastfeeding or bottle feeding – what is truly on offer?
Do we take breastfeeding and bottle feeding for granted as a mere functional part of caring for a child – or is there an opportunity for much more when we place a baby onto our breast or give them a bottle?
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The sleep deprived world
What happens during the hours we sleep? Is it the body, the so-called ‘meat suit’ we are in – our organs, blood, muscles – that is the beneficiary of the rest, or is there more to it?
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Living with a teenager
How do we support our teenagers in a world that is overwhelming and constantly ‘parenting’ them from social media and outside influences?
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Practice makes perfect?
It is said that ‘practice makes perfect’ but what is this perfection, if it even exists, that takes away joy, fun and our lightness of being?
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What is the defining factor in the quality of a relationship?
Given the many relationships we have in life, how mastered are we with the quality of those relationships? And where does God fit in?
Domestic violence, Family, Marriage, Parenting, Relationships
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Embracing being the black sheep of the family
The stigma of being the black sheep in the family is debilitating for many people right around the world – but is there another way to consider what this tag is really representative of to everyone around them?
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Power and Authority in Parenting: Whose Responsibility is It?
We all want our parenting to have a powerful and positive impact on our child yet often find ourselves holding back out of anxiety and fear or giving up in defeat. But at what cost?
Children, Empowerment, Parenting, Raising children, Responsibility
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Parenting from beyond the usual boundaries
Parents often feel overwhelmed with the endless array of parenting information available, yet the answers provided never seem to fully fill the gaps. So, what is missing?
