The benefits of going through the programme as a parent include:

-You'll be a great role model for your child

Children are like sponges and absorb so much from their parents in terms of their beliefs, thinking styles, responses and coping skills. However, this also means that they may copy and adopt the more unhelpful responses from a parent too. The advantages of having one or two thriving parental role models from which they can learn and develop cannot be underestimated.

Children are actually quite malleable and adaptable which is great news because it means that even just minor changes in your parenting can lead to positive changes in their thinking, emotions and responses. By  understanding how to respond to them in the most helpful way in your interactions with them and know how to best help and support them, without colluding with them. When you are thriving, you won't have to pretend to be a happy, confident and calm person....you will genuinely feel it.

- You will understand what makes your child tick and know how to best respond to them

There are a whole host of specific psychological components that cause a child's symptoms and anxieties, whether it's issues with their self esteem, social anxiety or fearful responses. In order to help them to overcome these issues, it's really important that you recognise them and have the tools to know how to change them. Often, a significant factor underlying children's issues is control, so as parents it's key that you understand how their difficulties around control have lead to their anxieties and issues. Even just minor changes to parenting can lead to significant positive changes which enable children to have a healthy control over their lives.

- You'll create strong, positive dynamics in your household

The insights that you learn from the programme will be distilled down to your child in your many, many interactions and communications with them. How you behave towards them, speak to them and what you teach them will be the key to overcoming their issues and learning to Thrive. Children predominently learn and develop from what they experience in life, rather than from what their parent's simply tell them. You will essentially learn to be their own personal Thrive Coach, drip-feeding the insights and knowledge you gain down to them in your day to day lives.

Any mental health specialist, whether that's a Thrive Coach, a counsellor, a child psychologist, etc, will only be working with a child for an hour or two a week. Compare this to the amount of time that a parent spends with their time - it's really just a drop in the ocean in comparison.

Please don't feel daunted by that prospect! You will find that everything you learn in the programme is logical, sensible and easy to understand and can be quickly and effectively imparted to your child.