Takiwatanga A Letter to My Daughter by Anon Dear Daughter, Do you remember when you were seven and you had all those invisible friends? On the way to school, you told me about the fairies that helped you in Maths. Once we went to the forest and you made friends with...
Why Everyone is Going Bananas for Banana Bread! By Annette Willett Associate Occupational Therapist at the Purple House Clinic, Loughborough Why has the nation so passionately reignited its love for this yummy loaf during lockdown? Is it just that it tastes so good?...
There’s no PLACE like home Lockdown, by nature of its social and economic implications, is putting unprecedented pressure on relationships of all kinds – personal and professional. There are families who are used to spending hours apart each day,...
A little while ago a colleague and close friend of mine told me that she’d just completed a ‘love bombing’ weekend with her 10 year old daughter. “A what?” I replied, wondering whether she’d been on some kind of new age camping trip. Of course it was nothing of the...
It was about 10 years ago when I first heard, in passing, of a new therapy for psychological trauma which sounded more than a little strange. As far as I could understand, the main principles were that you waggled your fingers in front of your client’s face...
