I recently watched 'The Salt Path', Marianne Elliot's film based on the memoir written by Raynor Winn. The book has been in the news recently for...
Articles on Trauma
Circular Healing
This strikingly bulbous deciduous tree, found in Prague, originates from the Balkans, and has been cultivated in Western Europe since 1576. The...
Paper cuts do damage over time
The award-winning journalist Tanith Carey published an article in Good Housekeeping magazine this month (August 2025) about coming to terms with her...
Stuck in Fight Mode
“They shall have wars and and pay for their presumption” Shakespeare, Henry VI part 3 Fighting our corner is a necessary and healthy part of being...
The Horse Whisperer – a study in trauma
I recently watched the 1998 film The Horse Whisperer, directed by - and starring - Robert Redford as a Montana rancher who helps an injured horse...
Why and how do we remember?
Perhaps you remember the moment you heard about a significant international or national event. When I heard about John Lennon being shot in New York...
Mind the Gap! Women and Homelessness
Frightened jumping This way that way Only knowing my fragmented terrified Beyond twitchy self I Bump off edges Jarring jangled Ricocheting At the...
Trauma and Time
Christmas is about a moment in time. Trauma can skew time. When something cuts across our path, changing us on the inside, it can feel as though...
Being proximate: when a hug is too much
There is a young boy, aged 11, called Pete, who loses his beloved mother to cancer and his world changes. The ground he walks on longer feels solid...
Seizing the moment: thoughts about crisis
I noticed in the Wikipedia entry for the English word 'crisis' that its use has grown considerably since the 1950s. This led me to reflect: are we...
Stop and Look Inside! Thoughts on addiction
Aged 80 this year, Canadian physician Gabor Maté was recently speaking about the notion of being ‘Young Again’ with Kirsty Young on BBC Radio 4. I...
What we most need: thoughts on chronic illness
Many of us remember Miranda Hart, the comedian extraordinaire who rose to prominence with Call the Midwife, winning comedy awards and four BAFTA...
Sing when your voice has been silenced
I recently read an article about an ex-offender musician who volunteered to play for an absent chapel pianist during 18 weeks in prison. He wrote:...
Terry Waite and the power of poetry
I had no personal contact with Terry Waite until April, 2024. Up until then, he was someone who I knew had been held captive in Beirut before being...
Green spaces for trauma
In the UK the warmth is seemingly elusive but longer days and activities does tend to mean we are outside more. How can being outside help us when...
Trauma and Homelessness
Trauma is interwoven with homelessness. I had already noticed this when working with asylum seekers and refugees in St Martin-in-the Fields. Then...
Be Careful About the T Word
GOVERNMENT WEBSITE - PREPARE. Be careful about the T word. The government has just launched a website: https://prepare.campaign.gov.uk/ to urge to...
Why and how I wrote my book
Why did I write my book, 20 Ways to Break Free from Trauma? In the first lockdown in 2020, life was scary. We had an invisible virus without a cure...