If This is Therapy, Why do I feel So Crap?
Today was Family Therapy. Despite the family’s gallows humour about it, actually I was looking forward to it. I felt encouraged at our review session when we discussed the sessions […]
Today was Family Therapy. Despite the family’s gallows humour about it, actually I was looking forward to it. I felt encouraged at our review session when we discussed the sessions […]
Once upon a time there was a mother, who had three children. The mother loved her children very much, but she also had a Job. The mother loved her Job […]
The biggest challenge in our new hardcore recovery home programme is not encouraging L to eat. I’m used to that, and even though exasperation is always near the surface, coupled […]
It is a truth universally acknowledged that nearly every parent in this world at some stage will say that they just want their child to be ‘happy’. It is usually […]
Today is L’s review and her Biology exam. The exam goes well, thanks to her hours of revision. She is dreading the review. She knows it will be challenging, that […]
It is L’s Review tomorrow – her fourth. After her GCSE exam in Biology, that is. And before her dental check up on Weds. Which is before her Return to […]
To say I found backing off a little hard is an understatement. For me, it was as hard as it would be for L to make chocolate brownies and scoff […]
I love snow. Proper thick snow that brings everything to a halt. I recognise some hate it and that for the vulnerable it presents real problems. But we can’t prevent […]
L is back home. I sat her down and told her backing off didn’t mean giving up on her, that it meant I was handing the reins over to her […]
L went back to the unit today. I was supposed to be going to London, but a further attack of the dizziness caused by labyrinthitis and a cancelled meeting kept […]