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Nicola Marshall

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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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Watch your language - July 4, 2018
Tell me how I feel - June 13, 2018
Are you REALLY listening to me? - May 1, 2018

For most young children they are spoken to all the time. We might not be aware of it but even with tiny babies we are nattering away labelling feelings, emotions, …

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Are you REALLY listening to me?

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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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Watch your language - July 4, 2018
Tell me how I feel - June 13, 2018
Are you REALLY listening to me? - May 1, 2018

I used to think I was quite a good listener. That was until I started a coaching course many years ago now and had to admit that actually I don’t …

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What’s so scary about being sad?

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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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Watch your language - July 4, 2018
Tell me how I feel - June 13, 2018
Are you REALLY listening to me? - May 1, 2018

This may be a subject I’ve spoken on before as it makes a regular appearance in my life – BC and AC (before children and after children). Why do we …

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Can we ever truly belong?

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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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Watch your language - July 4, 2018
Tell me how I feel - June 13, 2018
Are you REALLY listening to me? - May 1, 2018

I’ve just started reading Brene Brown’s new book on belonging called Braving the Wilderness. It’s already raised some questions for me that I’m pondering in the light of my own …

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December arrives at Tyler’s School

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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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Watch your language - July 4, 2018
Tell me how I feel - June 13, 2018
Are you REALLY listening to me? - May 1, 2018

Tyler is a fictional character as are all the others mentioned in this short piece about the lead up the Christmas. Tyler – Christmas What’s all the big deal about? …

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Is it empathy or something else?

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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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Watch your language - July 4, 2018
Tell me how I feel - June 13, 2018
Are you REALLY listening to me? - May 1, 2018

Empathy – the ability to sense and share the feelings of others – to feel what they might feel. I’ve been thinking a lot about empathy lately, for a number …

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Fantasy or reality?

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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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Watch your language - July 4, 2018
Tell me how I feel - June 13, 2018
Are you REALLY listening to me? - May 1, 2018

It’s that time of the year again when our minds turn to some of those stranger traditions we have – Halloween to be specific but also some of the myths …

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What do you see in this generation?

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Nicola Marshall

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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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Watch your language - July 4, 2018
Tell me how I feel - June 13, 2018
Are you REALLY listening to me? - May 1, 2018

I wonder if we were on a desert island with no other parents or adults around to judge – would we raise our children in the same way we are …

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How important is the space?

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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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Watch your language - July 4, 2018
Tell me how I feel - June 13, 2018
Are you REALLY listening to me? - May 1, 2018

At BraveHeart we usually talk about how important relationships are to our children and young people. Whether you’re a parent or carer, education staff or work with children in any …

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Compliance is not always good

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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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Watch your language - July 4, 2018
Tell me how I feel - June 13, 2018
Are you REALLY listening to me? - May 1, 2018

I spent the day on Thursday last week comforting my 16 year old daughter after she opened her GCSES results. I know it’s not an uncommon occurrence to feel disappointed …

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How do we learn what’s appropriate?

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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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Watch your language - July 4, 2018
Tell me how I feel - June 13, 2018
Are you REALLY listening to me? - May 1, 2018

Who says what is actually appropriate and how do we learn it? I’ve been mulling over this question for the last few weeks in my own life. As my teenagers …

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Not another way to punish?

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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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Watch your language - July 4, 2018
Tell me how I feel - June 13, 2018
Are you REALLY listening to me? - May 1, 2018

This week my secondary school where my boys still attend (our daughter left last week) have decided to bring in yet another behaviour modification system. Something they truly seem to …

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When people can’t show remorse

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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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Watch your language - July 4, 2018
Tell me how I feel - June 13, 2018
Are you REALLY listening to me? - May 1, 2018

A controversial thought I was driving to work a few mornings ago and the news was on. They were talking about decisions to look at whether we have more stringent …

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What’s your hierarchy of needs?

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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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Watch your language - July 4, 2018
Tell me how I feel - June 13, 2018
Are you REALLY listening to me? - May 1, 2018

Abraham Maslow’s theory know as the Hierarchy of needs has been around since 1943, and published in his paper ‘A Theory of Human Motivation’. If you work with children and …

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Mental Health First Aid Review

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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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Watch your language - July 4, 2018
Tell me how I feel - June 13, 2018
Are you REALLY listening to me? - May 1, 2018

Last week I attended our first Mental Health First Aid course. As it’s not a course I’ve participated in myself I decided to attend along with the other education staff …

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How long is long enough?

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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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Watch your language - July 4, 2018
Tell me how I feel - June 13, 2018
Are you REALLY listening to me? - May 1, 2018

How long is long enough to provide the support that vulnerable children need in order to develop? It’s a constant question we ask about our own children, but also from …

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The hunger drive

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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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Watch your language - July 4, 2018
Tell me how I feel - June 13, 2018
Are you REALLY listening to me? - May 1, 2018

I’ve been thinking about food and being hungry for some weeks now, not just because I’ve been on a detox…but because it’s come up in lots of different places I’ve …

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What’s your story?

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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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Watch your language - July 4, 2018
Tell me how I feel - June 13, 2018
Are you REALLY listening to me? - May 1, 2018

I was listening to a friend talking last week about vulnerable young people in our community. She was talking about how many there are presently, why they might be classed …

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