Behavioural Therapy
Virtually everyone has behaviours in life they do not prefer to be doing and would like to change. Be it from the small to the extreme, these behaviours impact us and the process of wanting to change or at the very least managing the behaviour is something many of us do unconsciously.
In the following articles we examine common, every day situations that many people encounter and share tips and insights to support with understanding and changing behaviours.
Jul08
Perfectionism – is it debilitating my child?
Perfectionism is simply an image we create of how we expect something to happen. Does your child ever: Yell, scream and/or have a tantrum simply ...
Jul01
The Effects of Competitiveness for Children
Question: Can you teach competitiveness to your children? My child does not have any interest in competing in sport or other activities and sits back ...
Jun29
Perfectionism and Behaviour Issues in Schools
When we watch the news, read the paper, talk to a neighbour or a man down the street, it is apparent that schools are experiencing ...
May11
A Mother’s True Role
Motherhood, mum, mother and all the associated words come with many images. Images of who is a mother, what a mother should and shouldn’t do, ...
Apr28
Foods and Moods
Do foods really impact our moods? Fabic Behaviour Specialist and Counsellor Tanya Curtis looks into the correlation.Foods are used in so many ways.
Mar30
The Playground is a Classroom of Life
Observing a playground full of children, it does not take long to identify a similar feel to a hospital and even an airport. How, you ...
Mar22
Sport: Healing or Harming the Soul?
Our Australian culture is very much sports-orientated. It’s a culture that can start from the day a baby is born and is often carried throughout ...
Dec09
Do you know your Number 1 job?
Whatever your age, we all have jobs in life. They might be trivial jobs that our parents assign us as kids or they might be ...
Oct01
Playing By My Rules
From the outset of a baby being born we must be aware that children are easily influenced. Children of all ages including our babies and ...
Aug04
How to Support People with Perfectionism and Issues with Winning and Losing
In this short 6 minute audio, behaviour specialist Tanya Curtis shares how Fabic's Body Life Skills program can support children and adults whose lives are ...
Jul29
Rules, Pictures and Smashed Pictures
Tanya Curtis explains how 'rules', 'pictures' and 'smashed pictures' impact on our lives, and how becoming familiar with these is a very important step towards ...
Apr01
Death, Grief and Children: how much do we share?
Do I share the whole truth, partial truth or withhold the truth from my child?I've always been amazed at how much anxiety surrounds topics that ...
Feb01
Perceptions and Re-Interpretations: How are they are harming our lives?
All day every day we are sending and receiving messages from one person to another.Messages are being exchanged by all our senses based on what ...
Dec01
Honour & Acknowledge vs Ignore & Bury
Have you ever read the children’s book “Who Sank the Boat” by Pamela Allen? The basic gist of this book is that five animals decide ...
Nov01
Smashed Pictures
Smashed Pictures are one of our greatest forms of anxiety, thus "Smashed Pictures" lead to all forms of behavioural deterioration.Each day we create “pictures” about ...
Oct01
3 Simple Steps to Behaviour Change
People may think that changing their unwanted or non-preferred behaviour is an arduous and sometimes seemingly impossible process. As a result they become identified by ...