Overcoming School Anxiety – its not just for kids! As those heady days of what was essentially a fantastic Summer of 2018 dwindle, many parents are having to deal with separation anxiety – and not just their child’s but their own anxiety too as...
Read moreOwen Connolly has spoken and written about the reptilian function of the brain, our natural alarm system, in the past. He claims this system can be triggered by interventions in childbirth, such as forceps or ventouse delivery or caesarean...
Read moreIn today’s short #ThursdayThoughts blog post, we give you a glimpse into Owen Connolly’s views on how human beings’ are designed to survive, and how this relates to their personal development. Owen is the founder of the Connolly...
Read moreWell, time has simply flown by – it is hard to believe the junior certificate exams are over and the leaving certificate finishes tomorrow. We hope that it has all gone well for our young people, and that the exam stress buster tips posted...
Read moreTeenagers may well be on many of our minds at present, what with the big exams underway for some and the long summer holidays started for others; so we thought we’d give you another brief insight into teenagers from Owen Connolly’s...
Read moreThis week we are disrupting our usual blogging routine with a special feature for all our students writing Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate exams. We know that it can be a challenging, stressful time for teenagers and their parents, so...
Read moreAlways and never. Right and wrong. Passionate and apathetic. Sometimes teenagers can be a mess of contradictions and difficult emotions, making them hard to engage with. Today’s #ThursdayThoughts blog post considers teenagers and their...
Read moreCHILDREN LEARN WHAT THEY LIVE If children live with criticism, They learn to condemn. If children live with hostility, They learn to fight. If children live with ridicule, They learn to be shy. If children live with shame, They learn to be...
Read moreWe’re back to our regular #ThursdayThoughts blog post today with a short but thought-provoking excerpt from Owen Connolly’s book for fathers entitled “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants”. As always Owen’s advice to...
Read moreIn today’s #ThursdayThoughts we are pleased to publish the second article in our “Therapists Thoughts” series. This time the theme is Biofeedback and how it can be used in therapy to control anxiety. This guest post is by Centre...
Read moreSometimes it seems that all parents do, is worry! We worry about our abilities as parents, and the effects our parenting may have on our children, we worry about our children’s health and well-being (now and in the future), we worry about...
Read moreOften in our culture there can be a tendency to not be straightforward and to rather speak around a topic, for fear of offending someone, being seen as “not nice” or just not liking conflict. In today’s #ThursdayThoughts post...
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