Nina's Nurture

Nina's Nurture My vision for Nina's Nurture is to provide parents and children with the understanding, skills, and

Do you wish you knew more about how to help your child to deal with their emotions? Do you want to learn strategies to help your child cope with overwhelming feelings of anxiety, anger, and low self-esteem? Are you searching for guidance and ideas that will help you know how to create a calm, happy and more loving home for you and your family? By engaging with the therapeutic approaches at Nina’s

Nurture I can help you work together as a family to achieve this. My vision for Nina’s nurture is to provide parents and children with the understanding, skills, and ability to lead emotionally healthy lives. I have combined my extensive teaching experience and years of training within health and well-being together with the knowledge and skills gained becoming a certified Mindful Monkey Better Together ® practitioner, to create a programme to help parents and children foster strong connections and relationships within their families. I know from my experience of being a mum and from my years of supporting and working with families at school that being a parent at times can be challenging. We strive to do our best but sometimes we all need some extra support and encouragement. During 1:1 family sessions or group sessions we will explore strategies and techniques that will enable you to create an emotionally happy and healthy home environment. By working through the practical activities together I can help your child learn to manage and regulate their emotions. I can offer you and your child lots of strategies and tools to use at home to help you to learn how to develop empathy, self-esteem, effective communication, and positive relationships within the whole family.

I just wanted to shout out a big ‘Hello’ to everyone and send all my Nina’s Nurture friends and followers a wee update. ...
09/08/2024

I just wanted to shout out a big ‘Hello’ to everyone and send all my Nina’s Nurture friends and followers a wee update.

Since starting this wonderful journey all the families, I have worked with have come to me through recommendations from my friends. Which is a good job as I am so terrible at posting on here🤣!! It has been more than a year since I updated everyone, and it is long overdue, but I have lots of exciting things to share with you about what I have been busy doing in the past year.

This year I have focused on further developing my own skills and knowledge around wellbeing and working with families. I have had the privilege to work part time with an educational charity International Futures Forum(IFF) who create Kitbag, a wonderful resource which amongst many other things supports children to talk about their feelings and emotions. I was extrmely proud to have been awarded accreditation as an IFF Kitbag trainer. Kitbag, is a resource which I often use in my work engaging with families.

I also completed my training as a befriender with a children’s charity and have spent the last year working as a volunteer supporting children and their families. This has been a wonderful experience where I have learned so much and been able to draw on all my skills and expertise to support the children in my care.

Being part of my own wee family and being a parent to two teenagers is one of the hardest but most rewarding things I have ever done. My own children are both navigating all the challenges and amazing things within their lives, and I learn from this every day! All these rich learning and life experiences help me whenever I work with a family through Nina’s Nurture.

Every child and family are completely unique and the support you need is tailored carefully to you. My vision for Nina’s Nurture is to help families create a happy and healthy home environment. I support you in developing strong relationships, building empathy and resilience. Many families come to me because their child may be struggling with feeling anxious or with managing their emotions or attending school. These are all challenges I can hep you with, and will work through them together with you and your child. I would like to say a heartfelt thank you to all the families that have welcomed me into their lives and homes again in this past year. It has been a privilege to help support and encourage your children and to help you foster those strong relationships that help you connect as a family.

Please, if you would like to learn more about my work or indeed have friends who you feel might benefit from finding out more, my website has a much more detailed description of all the work that I do. To find out more go to http://www.ninasnurture.co.uk/ or email [email protected]. I would greatly appreciate you sharing and liking the post to spread the word! 🥰😘😄

Almost a year ago, I shared my vision for Nina's Nurture and launched my wee business. It has been one of the best and...
05/06/2023

Almost a year ago, I shared my vision for Nina's Nurture and launched my wee business. It has been one of the best and most rewarding decisions I have ever made. Since then, I have been busy working away in the background helping and supporting some amazing children and wonderful families this year! Nina’s Nurture is a business I have run this year at the same time as working full time and looking after my own wee family. I mostly work with families at the weekends as this has suited them, but I can also work with people during the week in the evenings. Some families have engaged for four weeks and some after six sessions still want to continue working together. There is no one size fits all. I create a bespoke programme that suits your needs and am flexible and adaptable to fit in around your family schedules and my work commitments.

One of the things I love most is getting to know my families and what they need to help them. Every family and child I have worked with is completely unique and that's the bit I love most, the challenge of thinking and deciding how can I help? The thing that is unique about Nina’s nurture is that I come into your home and engage with everyone together. Following our initial consultation during our first session we get to know each other, and I can plan and decide the best way to support everyone moving forward. Each week I bring a range of engaging resources to use during our time together. The children love to help me unpack my bags to see which stories, games, and puppets I have brought along to each session. I also provide support and suggest resources for the parents that they can read and find out more about that will enable them to give their child the help and encouragement that they need.

I would like to say a heartfelt thankyou to all the families and people I have worked with this year. I feel so privileged and honoured that you choose to welcome me into your lives and homes to help your families. I am so proud of how hard you have all worked together to learn how to connect better as a family and foster those loving strong relationships that ultimately help your children to understand and process their emotions. Working with every one of you has meant so much to me and I am so grateful and proud that I was able to help you all.

Please if you would like to learn more about my work or indeed have friends who you feel might benefit from finding out more my website has a much more detailed description of all the work that I do. To find out more go to http://www.ninasnurture.co.uk/ or email [email protected].

During my time working with children and families one of the most important things I do is to help parents and children ...
14/08/2022

During my time working with children and families one of the most important things I do is to help parents and children learn how to understand and regulate their emotions. Emotions are our reactions to thoughts, events or experiences which bring us feelings such as happiness, sadness, anger, worry or fear.
Emotions show us what we are feeling inside. These feelings are very important because they tell us what is happening to us. They are like a measure of how we are.
When we are helping children to process and regulate their emotions there are some important things to consider:
(1) It is normal to feel a wide range of emotions and these can be at different levels or intensities.
(2) All feelings are valid and there is no such thing as a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ feeling. It is important to help children recognise that some feelings are comfortable and some are uncomfortable.
(3) Being able to label and identify our feelings helps us to understand them. We can help children learn how to recognise their feelings and support them to develop a ‘feelings vocabulary’ to express them.
(4) When we experience intense emotions normally these feelings will not last for too long and there are strategies we can learn to help move the feeling through our bodies.
(5) It is crucial to help children learn how to ‘sit with’ their emotions and not to try to take it away or fix this for them. We can learn how to ‘hold space’ and support our children in developing their own unique coping strategies.
(6) We can help children to develop positive and healthy ways to express and deal with their emotions and how to show their feelings in an appropriate way.
During my next few posts I am going to explore these ideas in much more detail. I will share practical suggestions, books and resources you could use to help you when supporting your child with regulating their emotions!

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