Don’t panic, your Prenatal Parenting Programme purchase has gone through fine but before you can gain access to the course materials we’d like you to complete the “Becoming a Confident Instructor” Training course. Once you have passed the course, the Prenatal Parenting Programme materials will be waiting for you here. We hope that’s OK. Hi , This …
Understanding emotions – riding the waves
I am feeling very grateful this week as I am on holiday staying in a beautiful apartment on the lovely South Beach in Tenby. Extra grateful because the sun has been shining a lot and the rain is mainly only falling during the night. The living room and my bedroom have panoramic views of the…
Getting passionate about antenatal education
Most of you know her as ‘calm and relaxed’ Wise Hippo Tamara but Tamara has an alter-ego that you don’t want to cross. Let me introduce you to Roller Derby Hippo. The side of Tamara that often wins her the title of ‘best blocker’ and you can tell by the picture that she means business. What has this…
As parents do you clash or collaborate?
Before Jim (my husband) and I had Evan we never discussed how we wanted to be as parents. We certainly never truly knew each other’s opinion about what we believed was the right or wrong way to parent our child. We had no idea if as parents we would clash or collaborate.Much the same happened when…
Your subconscious – Saviour or Sabotour?
Much of the work that we do is about making change at a subconscious level so I thought I’d spend a bit of time today talking about your subconscious and how it works.The title of this blog post is a little misleading as in fact your subconscious primary role is your survival so it always…
Mother’s instinct
We recently had a discussion within our Wise Hippo community about a mother’s instinct or in other words gut instinct. ‘Trust your instincts’ is something we say quite a lot to our clients but what does it really mean? How do we know we are following it?The definition of ‘gut instinct’ is ‘an instinctive feeling, as…
The right birth on the day – a truly empowered mum
I absolutely love listening to Aneka tell us about her ‘right birth on the day’. Why? Because she is a truly empowered mum. I’ve read two things recently that led me to write this post.1) An instructor was hesitating to share Aneka’s birth because it shows the midwife being less sensitive than she could have been.2) A Wise…
Understanding emotions – ‘Flip a Coin’ technique
In my last post I mentioned that I would be sharing with you a great technique called the ‘Flip a Coin’ technique (adapted from a talk I heard on The Sedona Method) .We provide this technique as part of the follow up materials for the Bond with Baby workshop but it is so simple and effective that I am going to…
Understanding emotions – my personal journey
Today I am going to share something personal with you. It’s about my own journey with understanding the true messages of our emotions.Because I have come on such a long journey myself it is a subject I am very passionate about sharing with others. It is the reason why understanding emotions is such a big…