This Kindness Gift Voucher from The Worry Wizard provides a template which children (and grown ups!) will enjoy completing and giving to the special people in their lives. It encourages children (and grown ups!) to focus on the people they care about and share with tho...

I have a difficulty with 'relentless positivity'. I think positivity has an important role to play in how we narrate our lives but I think the overuse of it with children and young people can leave them feeling alone. For example, one young person I met felt as though...

I am so excited to share that Jack and The Worry Wizard is ready.  

Jack is far too busy Worrying to have time to do anything else.  Jack wants to share his Worries but he feels too scared and alone.  What will he do?

When Worries turn your child's smile u...

Hope encompasses so many things, one of which is having the 'grounds to believe something good may happen'.  When your child is struggling with Worries it can feel impossible to unlock hope and help your child hold the belief that 'something good may happen'.  This ser...

I am bit confused by what I perceive as a focus on happiness as the desired emotional state. It makes me wonder what is wrong with all the other emotions. And if I wonder that as an adult, I wonder if it is confusing for children. Happiness can be a wonderful emotion t...

From my work this week, it is clear that children are struggling to cope with the devastation of the Manchester bomb and that adults are struggling to know how best to support their children with this.  There have been some fantastic articles written about how to speak...

How can we support children's mental health and build their resilience to cope with the demands of everyday life? The Worry Wizard shares her thoughts on how we can help our children 'thrive'.

A child's thought can shift from "I have a Worry," to "There is nothing good in my World," to "There is nothing good about me."

“There is nothing good about me,” is the most painful thought of all.  When a child believes this, life can feel impossible.  Watching th...

A child's thought can shift from "I have a Worry" to "There is nothing good in my World" to "There is nothing good about me".  “There is nothing good about me” is the most painful thought of all. 

When a child believes this, life can feel impossible.  Watchin...

When your world is so filled with Worries that it feels as though you cannot see, touch, hear or even smell anything else, the last thing you want to do is to talk about them.  What might be more possible is to learn about Wellbeing.

The Oxford English Dictionary define...