Sarah Vermeire

This is how my children felt yesterday. It's something that I have been desperate not to do - I did not want my children to have to tip toe around trying to make sense of how I may or may not react. But this weekend it happened - and I was super difficult to be around. I was difficult to be around in my own head, let alone for my poor family. For the past ten or so years, my hormones have been fairly calm and stable which has been super fantastic. Breastfeeding my babies one after the other...

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 in my experiences,...

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 Wizard of Oz is...