New Year in Wānaka was the highlight of my teens. It was the trip everyone talked about all year, a summer holiday with your closest mates and half your school year in one place. For me, it was also a chance to step away from home and enjoy a bit of freedom: sunny days, boating, ...
I want to start this post by saying: I never expected to be here, writing this. Three years ago, our 15-year-old son—once a happy, popular, cheeky boy—began to change. At first, we chalked it up to adolescence. Mood swings, withdrawal, sleeping late, the usual teenage angst, right? We missed it. We had no experience with ...
I want to tell you something you might not believe yet: you’re doing better than you think. If you’re here, reading this, you’ve probably already taken those terrifying first steps to help your teen. You’ve called the GP, contacted therapists, spoken to school. You’ve started to piece together a new language, a new way of ...
We often hold onto the hope that things will “go back to normal” once the worst of our child’s depression passes. But the truth is — they don’t. They can’t. And actually… that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Your young person is changed. You are changed. There is no rewinding the tape to before it ...
