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:...
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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...
Working with LGBTQI+
However we choose to express ourselves deserves our respect – meaning to see – again. Something is out of our experience requires our curiosity and spacious understanding.
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...
Thoughts on AI therapy
A friend of mine told me that her virtual therapist made a really thoughtful intervention and she thought I should check it out!I sent a dismissive...
Colin Murray Parkes – The David Attenborough of bereavement
Colin Murray Parkes, who died on 13 January 2024 at the age of 95, spent the majority of his life putting himself where others suffered traumatic...
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...