Breaking Cycles
Without Breaking Yourself
A self-paced course for growth-orientated mums who want to break generational cycles for their child — but without the cost of their own wellbeing.
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Most parents have a deep desire to give their child what they didn't have. But despite the best of intentions, they find themselves reacting in ways that feel the same as their own caregivers.
- —Reacting in ways they swore they wouldn't
- —Saying things that sound like their own parents
- —Yelling, shutting down, getting overwhelmed
And then the inner critic kicks in: "I'm doing it wrong. I'm messing them up." Knowing the cycle and breaking it are two different things.
Most parents don't realise these thoughts ARE the cycle:
- —"I don't want to mess up my kids."
- —"I want to give them the childhood I didn't have."
- —"I just need to be more patient and calm."
- —"I've done so much work on myself — why does it still show up with my kids?"
- —"I just need to raise a good child."
- —"If I do this right, the cycle ends with me."
These thoughts might sound like care. But it's driven by fear, pressure and blame.
Here's what people don't often support mums with:
Putting yourself last doesn't actually benefit anyone.
A depleted mum can't be present. A mum running on empty can't read their child's behaviour clearly — they read it through their own exhaustion, frustration, and unmet needs. A mum who's abandoned herself teaches her child, by example, that mums are supposed to abandon themselves too.
Looking after yourself isn't selfish. It's part of the cycle-breaking work.
The mum who's healing alongside her kid — not at her own expense — is the one who actually breaks the cycle.
Here's the real problem:
Cycle-breaking doesn't happen through more information. Or more willpower. Or more parenting books. Trying harder using the same shame-driven approach is how the cycles got there in the first place.
You can't shame your way out of a cycle.
You can't read your way out either. You need a different approach — practical tools, used while you're still in the middle of raising your kids. Without giving up your own wellbeing in the process.
I'm a Registered Mental Health Professional and I've been working with adults, children and families for over 20 years.
I created the Play Prescription® Method: a practical framework that gives you the child therapist lens to prescribe therapeutic play, support healing and growth, and break cycles alongside your kids — without giving up your own wellbeing in the process.
My expertise:
Registered Play Therapist | Accredited Mental Health Social Worker | PhD in Psychology (Play Therapy) | Training in Maternal Mental Health, Perinatal Psychology & Trauma Informed Practice | Over 20 years experience working with children and families.
How it works
Step 1
Enrol.
Get instant access to the welcome module and Module 1.
Step 2
Work through one module at a time.
Each module takes about an hour, plus practices that fit into your real life — not on top of it.
Step 3
Do two practices each module.
A reflective experiment — questions and exercises just for you. A therapeutic play skill — used with your child.
Step 4
Repeat across 8 modules.
By the end, you have a real toolkit and a sustainable practice you can come back to again and again.
What you get when you enrol
8 modules
Each module contains 4 lessons (~10 min videos each), a reflective experiment, and a therapeutic play skill
Welcome module
Therapeutic play research and Play Prescription® framework overview
Resource pack
PDFs related to each module
Lifetime access
Yours to keep, come back to anytime
A note on therapeutic play
Therapeutic play has decades of research behind it, with stronger outcomes when parents — not just clinicians — use the principles at home. This course teaches therapeutic play principles and skills you can use as a parent. It does not replace clinical play therapy training or therapy.
The 8 Modules
The Play Prescription® Framework
- ·Therapeutic play research overview
- ·The 5 pillars of the Play Prescription® Method
- ·How the course works — modules, reflective experiments, therapeutic play skills
- ·What this course is, and what it isn't
"I don't want to mess up my kids."
The fear-driven cycle.
- ·The lack lens vs the opportunity lens
- ·The dismissive phrases that keep you stuck
- ·Shame, guilt, and the voice that says you're already failing
- ·Repeating, rebelling, and what your parents couldn't do
- ·A therapeutic play skill that directly targets this cycle
"I want to give my kids the childhood I didn't have."
The over-giving cycle.
- ·The promise underneath the giving
- ·Meeting your inner child
- ·Giving yourself what you needed — alongside them
- ·Seeing them as them
- ·A therapeutic play skill that directly targets this cycle
"I just need to be more patient and calm."
The performed-calm cycle.
- ·Performed calm vs real connection
- ·The inner critic running the show
- ·Caring for your nervous system
- ·Repair every time
- ·A therapeutic play skill that directly targets this cycle
"I've done so much work on myself — why does it still show up with my kids?"
The Gap Cycle.
- ·Awareness and knowledge alone won't break the cycle
- ·What actually creates change: new experiences, not just new insights
- ·The corrective experiences your child needs — and so do you
- ·How play creates those experiences, every day, right now
- ·A therapeutic play skill that directly targets this cycle
"I just need to raise a good child."
Meet the Good Girl Cycle.
- ·Where the good girl script came from — and why it followed you into motherhood
- ·Parenting from someone else's definition of good
- ·The performance you're still running — and what it's costing you and your child
- ·Values-led parenting — on your terms, not theirs
- ·A therapeutic play skill that directly targets this cycle
"If I do this right, the cycle ends with me."
The pressure-of-healing cycle.
- ·The lie of "ending" the cycle
- ·When "ending the cycle" becomes pressure on your kid
- ·Living the practice
- ·Experimenting, building flexibility, repeating
- ·A therapeutic play skill that directly targets this cycle
Living the Play Prescription®
- ·Pulling the six cycles together
- ·Choosing the therapeutic play skill that lands hardest
- ·Building your own ongoing practice
- ·What to come back to when life gets messy
Choose the option that works best for you.
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Without this course
The cycles don't break themselves. They get passed on, automatically, through the same default reactions you've been swearing you'd change. More parenting books won't fix it. Trying harder won't fix it. Waiting until the kids are older means the version of you that arrives in five years is built from how you treat yourself now.
The cost of staying in the cycle keeps both you and your child stuck from healing and growth.
Healing and growing — alongside your kids
This course isn't about becoming a perfect parent. It's about doing two things at once: working on your own stuff, and supporting your child — and using play as the place those two things meet.
By the end of this course
Work on your own stuff
- —Spot the cycles running in your parenting and where they came from
- —Look at your own story honestly, without shame or brushing it off
- —Meet your own needs alongside parenting, not after it
- —Notice the inner critic before it takes over
- —Have your own life, with or without guilt
- —Break cycles without giving up your own wellbeing in the process
Support your child
- —See your child's behaviour as communication, not as proof you're failing
- —Understand what's actually going on underneath the behaviour
- —Repair after the hard moments in a way that rebuilds trust
- —Stop parenting from the "good child / good mum" script and start parenting from your values
- —See your child for who they are, not who you needed to be
Connect through play
- —Use therapeutic play skills to target each cycle
- —Show up in play in a way your child feels seen, heard, valued and loved
- —Use play as the place healing and growth actually happens — for both of you
It's not about being perfect or blaming yourself or others. Healing and growing, alongside the children you love, with play as the way you stay connected.
This is the part where knowing becomes doing.
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