Your mental health as a parent
Why it is important to look after your mental health and how this can help you support your child and wider family.
A list of resources to help parents and carers of children with a visible difference understand and improve their own mental health and wellbeing.
Looking after your wellbeing and mental health is important for all parents and carers – and particularly if you are raising a child with a visible difference.
If you need more information about the importance of good parental wellbeing and mental health please visit our information page.
On this page, we list mental health resources you can use to learn more about the importance of looking after your general wellbeing, as well as tools, techniques and exercises to help improve your mental health.
This page lists mental health resources from our advice and guidance section for people living with a visible difference.
A lot of it is relevant to parents raising children with a visible difference. For example, our guide to managing anxiety explores what anxiety is, what it feels like, what is going on in the body when we feel anxious – as well as some tools you can use to reduce anxiety.
Although it is written for people living with a visible difference, we hope you will find it useful too. You may also learn about how these things might be affecting your child.
Read our guide on managing anxiety.
Read our guide on relaxation techniques for anxiety.
Read our guide to self-care.
Why it is important to look after your mental health and how this can help you support your child and wider family.
A guide to managing anxiety that was created for people living with a visible difference but can also be used by parents.
This guide to self-care was written for people living with a visible difference, but is also relevant to parents of children with a visible difference.