Welcome to episode 122 with Joanna Fortune, who is a Psychotherapist specialising in the parent-child/adolescent relationship.
She is the author of 4 best-selling books 15-Minute Parenting (0-7 years; 8-12 years and teenage years) and Why We Play and hosts her own podcast, 15-Minute Parenting.
She is also a TEDx speaker and regularly contributes to a variety of print media outlets.
In this episode I chat to Joanna about therapy and learning to explore our behaviour through self-inquiry.
We chat about emotions and feelings and how we can learn to explore these things with our children in a way that will help them as adults.
We also chat about play and its importance in looking after our mental health and how we can bring more play in to our busy, modern lives.
We chat about parenting, building self-esteem, boredom and how to work on emotional fluency.
I got so much from this conversation! It’s not just for parents and so many of the things we get in to here could help you to understand the human experience and how childhood impacts us as adults.
You can connect with Joanna via social media @joannafortune or via her website www.solamh.com.
You can watch her Tedx talk here: Social Media - The Ultimate Shame Game? | Joanna Fortune | TEDxHa'pennyBridge - YouTube
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