Nurture in Nature

26/08/2026

Due to last minute cancellations we have spaces tomorrow on our SEND family HAF session. Please go to the request site to book.

26/07/2026

We are looking for another team member for our Alternative provision and holiday clubs. You must have experience of supporting children with neurodiverse needs and trauma. The role includes working with children who can become dysregulated and children with anxiety. Therefore potential candidates must be able to support children to manage their emotions and have a good understanding of neuroscience, co- regulation strategies and be a team player. Forest school experience is desirable. If interested in the first instance call Anne on 07781568340 or email [email protected].

11/07/2026

What if joy is more than just feeling happy? 💙

Like an iceberg, the emotion of joy has many layers. The excitement we notice on the surface is often supported by deeper feelings beneath it—gratitude, connection, hope, purpose, belonging, contentment, and peace.

When we recognise these layers, we move beyond chasing fleeting moments of happiness and begin building a more lasting sense of wellbeing.

✨ This Joyful July, take a moment to ask yourself:
💭 Which layer of joy feels strongest for you today?
💭 Which deeper layer would you like to nurture more?

Joy isn’t one feeling—it’s a rich emotional landscape waiting to be explored.

💬 Share one word from the iceberg that resonates with you today.

09/07/2026

07/07/2026

We live in a world that is struggling. Struggling with violence, with addiction, with polarization so deep that people can no longer sit in the same room with someone who thinks differently without it turning into a conflict. And we keep looking for solutions in all the wrong places.

More laws, more punishment, more control.

But what if the answer has been sitting in our homes and our classrooms all along?

💫 Research in neuroscience and developmental psychology has been telling us for decades that emotional dysregulation is at the root of so many of the behaviors we label as problems.
🗣️ The child who hits is a dysregulated child.
🗣️ The teenager who turns to substances is often a dysregulated teenager.
🗣️ The adult who cannot tolerate a different opinion without rage is a dysregulated adult who was never taught another way.

Emotional regulation is not a soft skill, it’s not a luxury reserved for progressive parenting circles, it’s the foundational human skill that determines how we handle frustration, how we treat people who disagree with us, how we cope with pain, and how we show up in our relationships, our communities, and our world.

✨ When we teach children to feel their feelings without being destroyed by them, we are not just raising calmer kids; we are building a more peaceful world, one regulated nervous system at a time.

The work you are doing at home, the co-regulation, the emotional validation, the staying calm when they can't... it is not small; it’s world-changing.

And it starts right here, in your living room, at your kitchen table, in the ordinary moments that feel like they don't matter but always do. 💜

23/06/2026

SECOND CHANCE SUNDAY

This is the voice of a child living with PDA and high anxiety.

A child who wants to do the right thing — but whose nervous system goes into threat when demands feel overwhelming.

Behaviour like avoidance, refusal, or shutdown is not a lack of care or effort.
It is anxiety, fear, and a body trying to stay safe.

When we shift from pressure to connection, from control to collaboration, everything changes.

05/06/2026

memorize it all, because they'll be gone before you know it ✨

05/06/2026

thoughts can come & go and don't need to mean anything ☁️

05/06/2026

will be open for bookings 12 noon Monday 8th June.

20/05/2026

When your body is in fight or flight, logic doesn't work. Your prefrontal cortex goes quiet. Your amygdala takes the wheel. Rational thinking gets shoved aside.

But there's a shortcut back to safety. And it lives inside your own body.

Research published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine confirms that deep diaphragmatic breathing at approximately six breaths per minute significantly increases parasympathetic nervous system activation and reduces perceived stress, blood pressure, and pulse rate, all in a single session.

The mechanism is the vagus nerve, the longest cranial nerve in your body. It runs from your brainstem to your gut, and it's the primary switch between "fight" and "rest." When you exhale slowly, you stimulate it. Your heart rate drops. Your muscles relax. Your brain remembers it's safe.

I teach this to every patient who tells me they feel like they're drowning in anxiety: breathe in for four counts, out for six. Repeat five times. That's it. Ninety seconds.

You're not weak for panicking. Your nervous system is doing exactly what it was designed to do. But you can meet it with something equally powerful: a long, slow breath.

What if the next time panic rises, you gave yourself 90 seconds before reacting?