Boarding School Remembered   In Therapy “So what was it like for you, to join the group?” I’m sat opposite my therapist of eight years, sat back in the armchair slightly angled away from hers, my hands on the arms of the chair, my fingers tracing the contours of the fabric, my feet firmly […]

Me and Boarding School   Part 1, a tale of NOT writing about my boarding school experiences, can be found here. This post is published here with the caveat that this is my memory, that is neither linear nor particularly reliable, and that others who attended the same school, both within and without of my […]

  Someone told me they’d be interested in reading about my experience of boarding school, so I was going to write a blog post about it. I say ‘going to’ like I didn’t write it. I did write it, but didn’t share it. I’m curious about that. Boarding school is one of those things that […]

With the Covid-19 virus beginning to impact more on people’s lives, and livelihoods, in the UK there is a sense of greater anxiety in many, not all, people. For myself I hop between ‘it’s okay’ to fear for family members with serious underlying health conditions for whom catching this virus would be far from ‘okay’. […]

I was thinking recently, on my way home from a weekend of training, about the TA concept of Life Script, which was not what we were discussing at training, weird how my mind wanders sometimes! And from Life Script my mind went to knitting and all the little jumpers, hats, trousers and toys that I […]

How Hard Can It Be?   You’ve listened to yourself, or others, or both, and decided you’d like to see a counsellor. And yet now you’re wavering. How do I do this? Why am I doing this? Why is it SO hard? I’m not sure if this blog post will answer those questions for you […]