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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by Bruce D. Perry and Maia Szalavitz

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Reviewed with a focus on boys and behavioural challenges Bruce D. Perry, a renowned child psychiatrist and neuroscientist, together with journalist Maia Szalavitz, delivers a powerful, compassionate, and scientifically grounded book in The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook (2006; revised editions 2017). Through a series

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💙Couples Therapy: Top 3 Reasons Relationships Break Down

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Ever wondered why couples therapy? IN this blog we are going to look at 3 tops reasons for relationship breakdown. No relationship is immune to struggle. Whether you’ve been together for five years or fifty, every couple will face challenges that test their connection. The good news? Conflict doesn’t have to mean the end. With

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🌱 Can Young Boys Benefit from Clay Therapy?

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Understanding Dysregulation & Development in Early Childhood. Yes — the children’s reactions were absolutely in line with their developmental phase. At ages 5 to 6, the brain, nervous system, and psyche are still learning to self-regulate, to distinguish emotion from action, and to hold complexity. Their intense responses — the sensory aversion, the difficulty naming

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Touching the Monster: Clay Therapy with 5–6-Year-Old Boys

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By Rina Louw, MSocSc Clinical Social WorkJungian Sandplay & Clay-Therapy Facilitator Introduction Working with clay and young boys is both grounding and confronting. In this 5-session process, I invited a small group of 5–6-year-old boys — most of whom showed signs of dysregulation and emotional overwhelm — to journey through the tactile and symbolic world

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Why Hitting Doesn’t Help: A Better Way to Discipline Your Child

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In many South African homes, especially when children — often boys — act out, get angry, or don’t listen, the default response is still a hiding. “Spare the rod, spoil the child,” right? But times are changing. And what we now know about child development, emotions, and discipline tells a very different story. What Is

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🦋 How Jungian Sandplay Therapy Helps Women Heal from Relationship Trauma”

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Body:For many women, the pain of past relationships doesn’t just disappear with time.It lingers in the body. In the dreams. In the patterns that repeat. You may have tried to talk it out, think it through, or move past it—but something deeper remains. Jungian Sandplay Therapy offers an invitation to heal not just the symptoms—but

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🌿 5 Inner World Parenting Tips

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How to Nurture Emotional Growth Through a Symbolic, Soulful Lens As parents, we often search for the “right” tools to help our children behave, succeed, or feel better. But what if we shifted the focus—just slightly—from managing their behaviour to understanding their inner world? Inspired by Carl Jung’s belief that the psyche is symbolic and

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The Call of the Deep: A Reflection on the Path of the Woman and the Whale

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There comes a time in a woman’s life when the outer striving begins to fall away. Not because she has given up, but because something deeper is calling—something quieter, older, and sacred. Like the great whale who slowly begins to drift from the pod, the older woman finds herself longing for stillness, solitude, and space.

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🌿 What is Inner World Parenting?

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A Jungian approach to nurturing social & emotionally intelligent children. Have you ever paused after a difficult moment with your child and thought, “Why did I react like that?”Or watched your child struggle with big feelings and wondered, “How do I really help them grow through this — not just stop the behavior?” These are

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🌿 Woorde Sonder Pote – ’n Reis na Jou Innerlike Stem

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Vir volwassenes wat as kinders nie hulle stem kon gebruik nie. Die kind sonder troeteldier Hy is twaalf jaar oud. Kwaad.Hy moet ’n praatjie skryf oor sy troeteldier.Maar hy het nog nooit een gehad nie.“Hoe moet ek skryf oor iets wat ek nie self gevoel het nie?” vra hy.“Hoe sê ek iets as dit nie

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