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01/04/2026

Community is created in so many different ways - and you really want to listen to this conversation! This Thursday, 2nd April at 2pm (London), live on Voice FM! 🤍

🎙️ TUNE IN TOMORROW at 2pm pm Voice FM! 🎙️

We're going LIVE on FM tomorrow at 2pm on the School Run Show with the wonderful Lucy Gibson from Positively Simple!

Join us to discover how Network Magazines connects our communities and brings us all together. From local stories to supporting local businesses and giving back to our charities—it's all about community spirit!

Don't miss it! 📻✨

02/03/2026

One of the best learning opportunities you will find around! 🤍🤍🤍🤍

25/12/2025

Highlights from January 2025 🤍

✨ livestream with Jane Nelsen (creator of Positive Discipline)

✨ special masterclass with Fernanda Lee (PD lead trainer and author of the book “Adolescente Não Precisa de Sermão”) and Chip DeLorenzo (co-author with Jane Nelsen of the book “Positive Discipline in the Montessori Classroom”)

✨ Collab with IKEA Southampton: workshop The Art of Bedroom Bliss

10/10/2025

✨ Be brave if you have to – and use that word as many times as you need to. ✨

Today is World Mental Health Day, and this book, "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse" by Charlie Mackesy, was coincidentally launched on this very same day in 2019. Whether that was done on purpose or not, I don't know. What I do know is that this book is filled with simple teachings, insights, and life lessons that certainly help us with our mental health.
I highly encourage you to explore this book. It's got so many gems that it's hard to pick a favourite.

Hope you are well—and if you aren't, always remember that "help" is the four-letter word that can lead you to a better life.

04/10/2025

✨ I’m not an expert, I just share what I’m learning! ✨

27/09/2025

✨ What if you had the power to change? ✨

I heard this quote at a workshop last Sunday morning, and it’s been stuck in my head ever since.
Looking back, I realised: this has been me most of my adult life.

If something could be improved, changed, or even scrapped, I would take action. I was never going to settle just for the sake of it. And I truly believe you shouldn’t either.

Because if there’s one thing we all have, it’s power:

🤍 The power to change ourselves.
🤍 The power to change our environments.
🤍 The power to change our attitudes, reactions, and perceptions.

And here’s the spoiler: you can’t change other people.
But you can find new ways of understanding them.
Get into their world.
See from their perspective.
Make an effort to understand them.
Give them time and space.
And be forgiving.

And it could be that ultimately the healthiest choice is to move away when something no longer feels supportive for your growth:

🤍 Move away from draining situations and environments.
🤍 Move away from people who don’t bring out your best.
🤍 Move away from negative thoughts, overthinking, and overcomplicating things.

Life won’t throw you easy balls, it’ll throw curved ones.
Sometimes even spiky, flaming ones.
And when they land in your hands, you have a choice: to hold onto the pain, or to choose change.
Because if we don't do anything, we are choosing to keep them in our hands, hurting us, burning us, making us suffer and taking the best out of us.

So choose change. And be the change you want to see in the world.

23/09/2025

✨ What if you didn’t need to control every single thing in your life? ✨

I’ve been there: trying to control everything between the Earth and the skies. And it was the most frustrating, exhausting and stressful failure I’ve experienced in life!

Pick your battles.
Prioritise.
Delegate.
Empower others.

Because the fact is: even if you DO manage to control everything in your life (which I highly doubt you could, don’t get me wrong!), how exhausted, stressed, frustrated and overwhelmed would you be feeling at the end of the day?

Was it even worthwhile?

So practice letting go. And you’ll see toxic perfectionism and the need for control flying out the window, one small task at a time.

And if you find it hard to let go of control, start small, with the mundane, low-risk activities. Like letting someone else pick the next colour you’ll use in your colouring book.

My husband chose blue - I would’ve probably gone for a different colour and, you know what, I’m glad I let him choose it! Now, every time I see that page, that blue feels kinda special. Not only has it allowed me a little break to make another decision at the end of my day, but it will also always remind me that my husband was a part of it, which makes something very mundane and non-important a bit more special and sweet.

✏️ We connected.
✏️ I let him into my world.
✏️ He was heard and his choice was respected.

So I hope you can learn how to let go as well.
Believe me, the world won’t end because not everything is going your way and you may end up feeling calmer, more connected and happier. And with a little bit of blue in your colouring book!

And yes, you can always start that small. 🩵✏️🩵

21/09/2025

✨ What if our imperfections are our superpowers? ✨

I’ve lost count of how many imperfections I see in myself.
And I have no interest in finding out the exact number.

I’ve made my peace with the fact that perfection will never be in my vocabulary.
Well, people say “never say never”, but perhaps it stays true in this case.

I am imperfect. And I’m learning how to be proud of it.

That inadequate feeling of not being enough: not being good enough, not smart enough, not pretty enough, not young or old enough, not funny or serious enough, not successful enough; it doesn't serve me.
It hurts and stings, to say the least.
So this is a reminder that these feelings will hold no space in my life. I am deciding to give them zero attention and zero value.
And I hope you're in this with me.

Because the people I love are imperfect.
And the ones who need me are imperfect too. Honestly, I’d be out of business if they had it all together, right?
The reason I do what I do is simple: my own imperfections and need for support have inspired me to help others like me out there.

Being imperfect is what makes us human.
It’s what connects us on so many levels. I see you when you go through the same (or similar) things I do.
Sometimes we laugh about it; sometimes we cry. Both are valid ways of coping with our imperfections, and they help us connect on a deeper, more human level.

Some people call it struggles; others, challenges; I like to call it a work in progress.
Call it whatever you want, it really doesn’t matter...

What truly matters is that we remain connected, supporting one another, seeing each other for who we are, and understanding that, hopefully, it can only go up from here.

I embrace my imperfections now as constant reminders that I am human, and that I am here to learn. And this doesn't shouldn't make me feel inadequate or not enough.

And hopefully, we are in this together, connected by our imperfections, among many other things. 🤍

14/09/2025

✨ What if there was a LIVE radio show 100% dedicated to supporting parents, educators, and caregivers? ✨

Guess what… there is! Whoop whoop!

School Run was born from my desire to share everything I’ve been learning about Positive Discipline, Montessori, and Adlerian Psychology over the years in a way that’s easy to digest, simple to understand, and full of practical tools you can actually use. And I am SO grateful for the opportunity presented to me by Xan Philips from VoiceFM.

Full disclosure: I’m not a professional radio presenter - pretty sure you’ll figure that out within the first two minutes! 😂

But here’s the thing: I am SO passionate about sharing these life-changing strategies that I just want to roll with it and do my best, however that looks. 👀

So please, when you listen to the show, remember: it’s run and produced by a very passionate educator whose first language isn’t English, and who is happy to put herself out there (and yes, embarrass herself sometimes!) for a bigger purpose: to support adults and children in the best way possible. 🤍

Oh! And did I mention that School Run is soon becoming a podcast? Watch this space, you’ll hear more very soon. Yay!

📍 Where: VoiceFM 103.9 FM/DAB (Southampton, UK) or online and on catch-up radio at www.voicefmradio.co.uk ; you can also download the VoiceFM app!

⏰ When: LIVE on Thursdays 2-3pm (UK time)

09/09/2025

✨ How open-minded are you? ✨

People usually say "oh, I'm very open-minded, why do you ask?" until they are gently challenged to rethink some of the things they've been doing their entire lives - so many of which haven't been working in their favour...but because it's been happening so long, it's become a part of their identity.

🤍 I believe that being open-minded means, above anything else, being humble enough to question your own methods, practices and even your own beliefs.

🤍 I also believe that being open-minded means to be wise enough to understand that you don't know everything - and that you don't have to.

🤍 And I also believe that being open-minded means to be serious about not taking yourself (or life!) too seriously - and that making mistakes is part of learning!

So my question to you remains the same:

✨ How open-minded are you? ✨

Because this will always be one of the first things I'll need my clients to be in order for us to work and grow together. And I'm so lucky to have found so many of them already!

And I hope you are one of them (even if we don't work together) and that, just like Virginia Woolf said, we go on living and changing, hopefully for the better.

06/09/2025

Isn’t it fantastic when you get to interview the man who made it all possible for School Run to be a reality?!

School Run is quite possibly the only live radio show 100% dedicated to sharing the principles and practical tools of Positive Discipline and Montessori too all parents, educators and caregivers out there, and I interviewed Xan Phillips (Voice FM) to learn more about why he believed in this project and how our listeners can benefit from the show!

It was SUCH a good show and it was a pleasure to share the mic with this amazing human being!

If you haven’t listened to it, the show is available on catch up for the next week or so - and soon it will be available on Spotify too (all in good time!)!

https://www.voicefmradio.co.uk/on-air/shows/school-run-with-lucy-gibson/