Body Life Skills
The Body Life Skills program offers a simple, practical, user-friendly and life-changing 3-step process that brings about lasting behaviour change. The Body Life Skills program understands that all unwanted behaviour is a result of anxiety first.
These articles showcase examples of real life situations where key elements of the Body Life Skills program are being applied in action.
Jul22
Why Do People Behave the Way They Do? Understanding What Sits Beneath Behaviour
“Why are they doing this?” It is a question many of us ask when someone shouts, withdraws, refuses, repeats an action, damages something or behaves ...
Jul22
What Is a Functional Behaviour Assessment, and What Actually Happens?
When behaviour is affecting safety, relationships, learning, independence or everyday life, it is understandable to want an answer—and often a quick solution. But before we ...
Jul22
Why Individualised Support Matters: The Same Diagnosis Does Not Mean the Same Needs
Two people can have the same diagnosis and experience life in completely different ways. They may communicate differently, respond to different environments, enjoy different activities, ...
Jul22
Empathy and Boundaries: How to Understand Behaviour Without Accepting Harm
Someone you care about is distressed. You can understand why.
Jul22
What to Do When Someone Is Dysregulated: Settle First, Teach Later
Someone raises their voice. They begin pacing, crying, repeating themselves, shutting down or pushing everyone away.
Jul21
What Is Empathy, and How Do We Increase Our Own Empathy?
Empathy is often described as putting yourself in someone else’s shoes. That is a helpful starting point, but it can miss something important: the shoes ...
Aug19
What Are the FABIC Products and How Did They Come About?
There are many, many FABIC products that people can take home or order online that will assist them and the person they are supporting to ...
Jan17
Your Questions, Answered – 06
Question: My daughter, 12, has started to ask me to drop her at our local shopping centre so she can hang out there and go ...
Dec11
Your Questions, Answered – 05
Question: My husband and I disagree over the kids’ rooms. I want their rooms to stay neat/clean.
Aug31
Your Questions, Answered – 03
Question: Sometimes I feel that being proud of my child is somewhat taboo when speaking to other parents. Shouldn’t we all be encouraging our kids ...
Mar03
Growing Up: Changing Parental Relationships
Children tend to grow quickly from their cute toddler stage into young children, teens and beyond. As they develop, our way of being with them ...
Nov04
Travelling Terrors – Can We Avoid Them?
The countdown to your holiday has ended. Finally, the day has come.
Aug31
You are not your behaviours; seeing people for the Awesome, Amazing, Loveable being that they are
In this interview, Behaviour Specialist Tanya Curtis presents the importance of seeing people for the Awesome, Amazing and Loveable being that they naturally are. Too ...
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 ...
Jul09
Tanya Curtis Interview with Cassie Clouser
In this warm and engaging interview with Cassie Clouser from Ohio U.S.A, Tanya Curtis covers a vast range of topics and offers great insight into ...
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 ...
Feb20
Tanya Curtis on Eating Disorders
Tanya Curtis was recently interviewed by the lovely Rachael Torise from BayFM 99.9 on the topic of Eating Disorders. In this interview Tanya gives insight ...
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 ...