Happiness Injection with Shonette Bason

I'm Listening

Listening is such an easy skill, is it though? How much of it do we have in our life? What can we gain from both sides and how will it fit our overall happiness.

Squiggle Early Writing Programme

I now have a writing programme designed to develop early writing from age 2 through into Year 1. Using Neurological and Physiological principles, the programme is a great way to improve early mark making and is a recognised solution for developing wr…

My Friend Miriam

Loss hurts us all, is there anything positive to take from it. I lost my friend Miriam last year and share some of my reflections of how wonderful and inspiring a person she was.

New Year New Story

New Year is the time when people plan changes. New Year New Me! What does that actually mean for people though? How can we implement changes in our lives to improve them and make it meaningful and lasting? Shonette has some ideas, listen in for more

Confidence

It’s all about confidence! One of the biggest lessons Shonette learned while at the factory was learning how to stand up for herself. Shonette and Cammy talk about the times they’ve been standing up for themselves and for others. Shonette does it fo…

Slang!

Slang - no Christmas mention - Shonette is 48 and Cammy is 24 and sometimes this can lead to a bit of a communication issue. So today the pair are looking at slang and the way words can mean very different things to different generations. In partic…

Christmas Spirit

As Christmas approaches Shonette and Cammy reflect on how this crazy covid Christmas might actually make future Christmases better Shonette has planned an outside Christmas for her family this year. Yes, an outside Christmas in the North East of Engl…

Rally Yourself

Some days Shonette wakes up happy and other days she doesn’t. Let’s be honest there are some days when it’s harder to convince your brain it’s all going to be ok and it’s worth getting out of bed. So how can you rally yourself to be happy on those ot…

Can Lemon Suckers Be Saved?

Lemon suckers are well and truly in Shonette’s sights today. They are the people that won’t try anything new, won’t smile, are totally moody all the time and have that “lemon sucker” face on them all the time. Shonette thinks it’s possible to get so…

Covid Christmas

It’s a Covid Christmas for Shonette and Cammy and indeed everybody this year. A very different Christmas for a very different year. But you can make it a magical Christmas even though it won’t be the Christmas you perhaps imagined it would be in Ja…