Is love a super power? I was recently at a conference in which a group of professionals were talking about therapeutic life story work - especially about how to support children and young people who have experienced trauma. We were asked to consider what our super powers would be if we could have them. I've been a social worker for 15 years. I'm also a mother of three and an adoptee. And to be honest, I have only recently, in my early 40s, really started to feel safe - safe i

I’ve always believed in looking for the good in people. Perhaps naively, I believe nobody is truly "bad" - just a product of their environment and protective systems. The film Wicked is the absolutely brilliant portrayal of that, on both an individual and collective level. We are only the stories we tell ourselves, or the stories we tell other people. Sometimes we alter those stories to fit the message we think we need to survive. The story we have always been told about the

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Today, I took my littlest to the local amazing little craft shop. It was one of our last one-to-one days together before she starts...

The real 'mess' of life! School holidays, play doh and chaos! I’ve been thinking a lot about perfection. Specifically, the pressure to be...

two years ago, I took a leap of faith. I walked away from a comfortable, secure part-time position as a social worker to embark on a new...

I remember hearing it for the first time as a student social worker: "The one thing we can be sure about is change." Back then, I...

I've come to hate the word "trigger." It's become so commonplace, used to describe everything from a slightly upsetting news story to a...

Everyone's talking about "Adolescence" on Netflix, and honestly, it hit me hard. This resonated with me deeply - because my work is all...

You are a cr@p parent! Today I was telling myself this. I was cross and had no patience. I responded every way I knew wouldn't help. I...

What If Love Is Enough? We often hear that love isn't enough. Especially when it comes to children with neurodivergence, trauma, or...