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Jan 1

More Funny, please…..

Looking in the direction of laughter, love and lightheartedness in 2022. Last year was shit. A year of misery and upset and depression and eating disorders and assessments and emergencies and meetings. Total and utter shit and I’m glad to see the back of it. And that…was my last moan…

Laughter

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More Funny, please…..
More Funny, please…..

Nov 16, 2021

How The Ego Takes A Battering When Your Kids Receive a Diagnosis

“What Did I Do Wrong?” — When you work in the field of mental health, and your kids start to struggle, you feel like a complete imposter and a fraud. Surely I should be able to help? Surely if I know what I know and I’ve been parenting them according to what I know, they should…

Eating Disorders

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How The Ego Takes A Battering When Your Kids Receive a Diagnosis
How The Ego Takes A Battering When Your Kids Receive a Diagnosis

Nov 14, 2021

14 Days And We’ll Know Where We Stand

The Journey Through Diagnosis — I have no idea how the universe has managed to line this all up over the space of two weeks but we’re all being labelled and put into boxes. We kicked off two days ago when my Dad had a meeting with the consultant to finally discover the conclusion of…

Mental Health

4 min read

14 Days And We’ll Know Where We Stand
14 Days And We’ll Know Where We Stand

Nov 13, 2021

I Wish I Had Started Sooner

I wish I had started writing this when my kids were born. Perhaps all the clues would be there in writing for me to see now. I wish I’d been with them the way I’m being invited to now before we got to this point. But when our lives transform…

Parenting

4 min read

I Wish I Had Started Sooner
I Wish I Had Started Sooner
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