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I am not a poet, but I write poetry. I love the freedom of creation and the fact that I write it just for me. ​My first poem (well that I can remember) was written about police dogs in class 2C so when I was 10. I wrote it because I did not like writing. It was twenty words long! It didn’t rhyme and it didn’t have a noticeable rhythm; this is true of all my poetry since. Nobody was more surprised than me when it was published in our class newsletter!! My next memorable piece

Sometimes, people who are grieving trust me enough to say that they can feel the person’s presence with them. These feelings are often called grief or post-bereavement hallucinations, but I prefer to call them sensory grief experiences since to the person who sees, hears, smells, or feels them they are very real rather than a hallucination. These experiences can include seeing the dead person, or feeling them touch you, smelling their scent or feeling a coldness in a particul

Lots of you will have heard of Maslow and his Hierarchy of needs, or you will have seen 'his' triangle of needs in some dusty old textbook, but who is he and why is he relevant today? Maslow facts Maslow’s hierarchy of needs represents part of an important shift in psychology in 1943. Rather than focusing on abnormal behaviour and development, Maslow's humanistic psychology was focused on the development of healthy individuals. Maslow was more interested in learning about

I am not good at the dentist and during the first two years of COVID I had not managed to go so it was even harder to return. It was a new dentist as well because I had moved and inevitably at the check-up, she said that I needed work done. I talk a lot about anxiety with my clients and we look at ways to breathe. I think I have a handle on my anxiety but this trip to the dentist has reminded me how untrue this is. My thorough knowledge of polyvagal theory and flight, fright,