Understanding how growing minds learn, feel and thrive.
A psychology-informed, neuro-affirming space exploring the inner worlds of children — helping you better understand the children in your life and how to support them so that they – and you – can thrive.
Learning & Development
Understanding how children learn, think, grow and make sense of the world around them.
Emotions & Well-being
Exploring emotional development, regulation, relationships and the foundations of wellbeing.
Nervous Systems & Neurodiversity
Making sense of sensory experiences, overwhelm, regulation and different ways of experiencing the world.
Connection & Support
Helping parents and educators feel more confident, informed and connected in the way they support children.
Hi, I’m Josie
I’m a teacher, psychology graduate, neurodivergent mum and self-confessed child development super-nerd.
Over the past 13 years, I’ve worked with children across schools, nurseries and specialist settings — supporting a wide range of needs, personalities and ways of experiencing the world. Along the way, I found myself constantly drawn back to one big question:
Why do children do what they do?
The Growing Mind was created as a space to explore that question through a psychology-informed, neuro-affirming and deeply human lens — helping adults better understand the inner worlds of children and feel more confident in the way they support them.
Because when we understand what’s happening beneath the surface — emotionally, developmentally and neurologically — everything begins to make a little more sense.
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