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Nicola Marshall

Director at BraveHeart Education

With over 13 years working in personal development Nicola Marshall has attained numerous skills and a genuine care for others. She is a fully trained coach, adoptive parent as well as the founder of Brave Heart Education.

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• What is within your power? - May 1, 2019
• 5 things I wish my teachers knew - April 3, 2019
• School Refusers - March 22, 2019

I’ve been thinking and wrestling recently with what I have control over in my life. There are many things we can’t control. We can’t control how others behave and how …

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Nicola Marshall

Director at BraveHeart Education

With over 13 years working in personal development Nicola Marshall has attained numerous skills and a genuine care for others. She is a fully trained coach, adoptive parent as well as the founder of Brave Heart Education.

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• What is within your power? - May 1, 2019
• 5 things I wish my teachers knew - April 3, 2019
• School Refusers - March 22, 2019

My adopted daughter is now 18 and in her second year of college. Today we were discussing her experiences in school since starting in Primary and we came up with …

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Nicola Marshall

Director at BraveHeart Education

With over 13 years working in personal development Nicola Marshall has attained numerous skills and a genuine care for others. She is a fully trained coach, adoptive parent as well as the founder of Brave Heart Education.

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• What is within your power? - May 1, 2019
• 5 things I wish my teachers knew - April 3, 2019
• School Refusers - March 22, 2019

One of the most challenging and frustrating areas for both parents/carers and educators to navigate is the school refuser. This is something we talk about often in our support group …

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Nicola Marshall

Director at BraveHeart Education

With over 13 years working in personal development Nicola Marshall has attained numerous skills and a genuine care for others. She is a fully trained coach, adoptive parent as well as the founder of Brave Heart Education.

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• What is within your power? - May 1, 2019
• 5 things I wish my teachers knew - April 3, 2019
• School Refusers - March 22, 2019

I’m just sitting in the foyer of a hotel in Liverpool waiting to deliver my seminar to 60 further education professionals. Post 16 is a challenge for lots of young …

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Nicola Marshall

Director at BraveHeart Education

With over 13 years working in personal development Nicola Marshall has attained numerous skills and a genuine care for others. She is a fully trained coach, adoptive parent as well as the founder of Brave Heart Education.

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• What is within your power? - May 1, 2019
• 5 things I wish my teachers knew - April 3, 2019
• School Refusers - March 22, 2019

I went to watch a film at the cinema last week. This was a film I’d been looking forward to seeing for months. The trailer was really funny, seemed realistic …

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Nicola Marshall

Director at BraveHeart Education

With over 13 years working in personal development Nicola Marshall has attained numerous skills and a genuine care for others. She is a fully trained coach, adoptive parent as well as the founder of Brave Heart Education.

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• What is within your power? - May 1, 2019
• 5 things I wish my teachers knew - April 3, 2019
• School Refusers - March 22, 2019

It’s very hard to measure the ‘success’ of vulnerable young people as they grow. In schools we assess ad nauseum and maybe that can give us some indication of how …

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Nicola Marshall

Director at BraveHeart Education

With over 13 years working in personal development Nicola Marshall has attained numerous skills and a genuine care for others. She is a fully trained coach, adoptive parent as well as the founder of Brave Heart Education.

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• What is within your power? - May 1, 2019
• 5 things I wish my teachers knew - April 3, 2019
• School Refusers - March 22, 2019

I’ve experienced back pain on and off for the last 20 years. Sometimes it’s unbearable, most the time I’m conscious of it and occasionally I forget that I am prone …

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Nicola Marshall

Director at BraveHeart Education

With over 13 years working in personal development Nicola Marshall has attained numerous skills and a genuine care for others. She is a fully trained coach, adoptive parent as well as the founder of Brave Heart Education.

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• What is within your power? - May 1, 2019
• 5 things I wish my teachers knew - April 3, 2019
• School Refusers - March 22, 2019

I love this Christmas song – I love the words and the sentiment that regardless of what might be going on in our lives we might be able to put …

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Nicola Marshall

Director at BraveHeart Education

With over 13 years working in personal development Nicola Marshall has attained numerous skills and a genuine care for others. She is a fully trained coach, adoptive parent as well as the founder of Brave Heart Education.

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• What is within your power? - May 1, 2019
• 5 things I wish my teachers knew - April 3, 2019
• School Refusers - March 22, 2019

Poor mental health, high anxiety levels and generally living life at a stressful speed is taking its toll. On my travels around schools and with other adoptive parents I’m noticing …

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Nicola Marshall

Director at BraveHeart Education

With over 13 years working in personal development Nicola Marshall has attained numerous skills and a genuine care for others. She is a fully trained coach, adoptive parent as well as the founder of Brave Heart Education.

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• What is within your power? - May 1, 2019
• 5 things I wish my teachers knew - April 3, 2019
• School Refusers - March 22, 2019

I’ve just come back from a two day parenting teens course with lots of great, inspiring and challenging thoughts in my mind. One is around control and influence. When my …

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Nicola Marshall

Director at BraveHeart Education

With over 13 years working in personal development Nicola Marshall has attained numerous skills and a genuine care for others. She is a fully trained coach, adoptive parent as well as the founder of Brave Heart Education.

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• What is within your power? - May 1, 2019
• 5 things I wish my teachers knew - April 3, 2019
• School Refusers - March 22, 2019

Some of you may be heading back to school after the half-term, others (like myself) are still enjoying the lazy get up times of holidays. Of course, with my teenagers …

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Nicola Marshall

Director at BraveHeart Education

With over 13 years working in personal development Nicola Marshall has attained numerous skills and a genuine care for others. She is a fully trained coach, adoptive parent as well as the founder of Brave Heart Education.

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• What is within your power? - May 1, 2019
• 5 things I wish my teachers knew - April 3, 2019
• School Refusers - March 22, 2019

Why are we so obsessed with competition? I totally get the Olympics and high level sporting competitions – people pushing themselves beyond what they think they can achieve. The bit …

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Nicola Marshall

Director at BraveHeart Education

With over 13 years working in personal development Nicola Marshall has attained numerous skills and a genuine care for others. She is a fully trained coach, adoptive parent as well as the founder of Brave Heart Education.

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• What is within your power? - May 1, 2019
• 5 things I wish my teachers knew - April 3, 2019
• School Refusers - March 22, 2019

If you’ve been on this journey with me for a few years you will know that every year I choose a word for the year as my kind of goal …

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Nicola Marshall

Director at BraveHeart Education

With over 13 years working in personal development Nicola Marshall has attained numerous skills and a genuine care for others. She is a fully trained coach, adoptive parent as well as the founder of Brave Heart Education.

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• What is within your power? - May 1, 2019
• 5 things I wish my teachers knew - April 3, 2019
• School Refusers - March 22, 2019

Dr Andrés Fonseca is a consultant psychiatrist with 16 years of clinical experience. He holds an MSc in psychiatric research methodology from UCL and is honorary lecturer at UCL (division …