In Your Corner Hypnotherapy & NLP

08/02/2026

Such poignant lyrics.

Song by Chris Stapleton

08/02/2026

Listening without rushing to fix can be the most powerful form of care a child receives.💛

06/02/2026

The stories you tell about your kids matter.

Think about the way you describe them—because those words stick.

If you see them as difficult, defiant, or too much, they start to see themselves that way too.

But if you believe in their kindness, their resilience, and their ability to grow, that becomes their truth.

Your belief in them shapes the way they see themselves. So, choose a story that lifts them up. ❤️

Every little thing you say and do matters—more than you know.

06/02/2026

When children feel safe enough to be honest with us,
it says something important about the relationship.

Not that everything is easy.
Not that there’s no conflict.
But that love isn’t fragile.

That it doesn’t disappear when voices get louder.
Or when feelings get messy.
Or when a child is upset with us.

In homes where love feels conditional,
children learn to hide their anger,
soften their truth,
or pretend everything is fine
just to stay connected.

But when love is steady,
even in the middle of hard emotions,
children learn something powerful:

That relationships can hold honesty.
That conflict doesn’t equal rejection.
That they don’t have to choose
between their voice and their belonging.

And that kind of safety,
it becomes the foundation
for every relationship they build later in life. ❤️

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06/02/2026

06/02/2026

Discipline is often misunderstood.

It was never meant to hurt, shame, scare, or control a child. True discipline is about teaching skills, guiding behavior, and supporting emotional growth.

When children feel safe, connected, and understood, they learn. When they feel afraid or shamed, they shut down or act out.

Positive discipline does not mean permissive parenting.
It means setting clear boundaries while staying connected.
It means responding to behavior instead of reacting to it.
It means asking, “What is my child needing right now?” rather than, “How do I make this stop?”

Discipline is not about power over a child.
It is about helping them build the skills they do not have yet.

That is how lasting change happens.
That is how trust is built.
That is how children grow into emotionally healthy adults. 🩷

04/02/2026

A lot of frustration in parenting doesn’t come from behaviour itself —
it comes from misalignment.

We respond to old versions of ourselves.
To unhealed parts of our own childhood.
To expectations we didn’t even realise we were carrying.

And when that happens, the child in front of us
is no longer being met as they are.

Attunement changes this.

When we slow down enough to see who our child is —
their temperament, their limits, their wiring —
our responses become more appropriate, and far less charged.

This doesn’t mean letting go of guidance.
It means letting go of projection.

Children flourish when they don’t have to perform, compensate,
or become someone else to stay connected.

The work is subtle, but powerful:
meeting reality instead of memory,
and loving the child who is actually here.

And in that space,
children feel seen —
and loved —
for who they actually are.

That’s where regulation, trust,
and real relationship begin. ❤️

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03/02/2026

Allow me to help you to help you!

31/01/2026

If you’ve ever been told to “send them to calm down” and it didn’t sit right with you — this is why.
Children don’t learn regulation through isolation. They learn it through connection. Through an adult who stays close, steady, and calm enough for them to borrow that calm until their own nervous system can catch up. This isn’t about spoiling or rescuing. It’s about building the brain skills that make self-regulation possible.

30/01/2026

If we haven’t learned how to regulate our own emotions,
it’s unfair to expect our children to manage theirs.

They don’t learn calm from instructions.
They learn it from experience.

From being with someone
who can stay steady
when emotions run high.

Children borrow our nervous systems
long before they borrow our advice.

So when we slow down,
pause,
and regulate ourselves,
we’re already teaching them how.

Calm doesn’t start with them —
it begins with us. ❤️

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30/01/2026

Most parents don’t mean to pass anything down.
They’re doing the best they can
with what they’ve been given.

But unexamined pain has a way of speaking anyway —
through reactions, patterns, and moments we don’t fully understand.

This isn’t about blame.
It’s about awareness.

Because much of what hurts children isn’t intentional.
It’s inherited.
Unquestioned.
Repeated under stress.

Healing doesn’t mean getting it right all the time.
It means being willing to look inward,
to repair when we miss,
and to interrupt what no longer needs to be carried forward.

So we heal for our babies —
so they don’t have to fight
battles that were never theirs to begin with. ❤️

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29/01/2026

You will never see your reflection in boiling water.
Not because the reflection is gone—
but because agitation distorts what is already there.

In the same way, truth cannot be seen when the mind is angry.
Anger heats the mind.
It shakes perception.
It turns assumptions into facts and reactions into conclusions.

In Buddhist teaching, this state is called a mind under the influence of kleshas—mental poisons like anger, craving, and ignorance. When anger arises, right view collapses. We stop seeing things as they are and begin seeing them as we feel.

🧘‍♂️ The Buddha taught that wisdom does not arise from force, argument, or emotional intensity—but from stillness and mindful awareness.
Just as muddy water clears when left undisturbed, the mind regains clarity when we stop stirring it.

This is why meditation in Buddhism is not about escaping reality.
It is about letting reality reveal itself.

When the mind is calm:

Words soften

Judgments loosen

Truth becomes visible

Compassion naturally arises

Still the mind—not to suppress emotion, but to understand it.
Sit with the heat without acting from it.
Let anger cool into insight.

✨ When the water settles, the reflection returns.
When the mind settles, truth appears.

Not because truth was created—
but because it was never absent.