June 30, 2018
In the opening moments of a session my client sits back in the chair and lets out a long breath, staring out through the window at the tops of the trees in the warm morning sunshine. She tells me it feels good just to sit. The surprise which rises in us when we realise how […]
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June 24, 2018
On a warm summer morning this week I took Daisy for a walk in the sheep field where, currently, there are no sheep. She loves running through the lengthening grass down to the shallow stream which winds along the bottom edge towards the railway bridge. Running free and wild, ears pinned back, across the wide […]
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June 17, 2018
At a gig in Wembley, my teenage daughter disappears into the heaving crowd with her friend. I hang towards the back of the arena half fan half protector, constantly balancing the two, aware of the point at which my influence and control over her begins and ends while that over myself is quietly constant. As […]
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June 10, 2018
Walking in Cuckoo Woods with Daisy we are with my sister’s own four dogs. Daisy loves to be with “the pack” and hurtles backwards and forward through the melee making sure that everyone is present and correct. As the path runs alongside the fields there is a stream which meanders through the trees. It’s mostly […]
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June 2, 2018
I am discussing with Martin the impact addicts have on the lives around them. The partners, parents, sons, daughters and friends of addicts are drawn along too. Often forgotten victims of someone else’s emotional crisis. Emotional disturbance and the behavioural change sparked by it alters the constellation of lives. The dynamics shift and nothing is […]
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