But what if it’s something else?
What if it’s because we have TERRIBLE mental health habits and we’re teaching them to our kids too?
As an adoptive parent, my children’s mental health was my paramount concern from the day they arrived. It made me look at my role as their mother a bit differently because I realised that if I were to pass on some of my habits and beliefs to them, I’d be setting them up for even worse experiences when the time came for them to process the early life experiences they endured.
If I wanted to give them the best chance to experience feelings of empowerment, strength, resilience and genuine joy, despite everything they have been through, I had to figure out how to do those things myself too.
That’s what Big Happy Life is about.
For many of us, the nail isn’t painful enough to make us move until we realise we’re going to stick that same nail into our children if we don’t get up.