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27/08/2026

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Let’s all be more Dolly 🙏🏽🪽💛
26/08/2026

Let’s all be more Dolly 🙏🏽🪽💛

Packing away summer feels a little more poignant this year. Is anyone else feeling a little emotional about September?Pu...
24/08/2026

Packing away summer feels a little more poignant this year. Is anyone else feeling a little emotional about September?

Putting away the pool, summer bits, and all the little signs of the holidays feels like more than simply saying goodbye to another summer.

It feels like the end of a chapter.

A new season is coming, and with it, lots of change and new beginnings. 🍂

My baby is starting secondary school, and my big girl is looking to fly the nest. 🥹

One minute they’re tiny, and you feel like these days will last forever… and suddenly you’re standing on the edge of another huge milestone, wondering where all those years went.

There’s so much excitement for everything ahead, and at the same time, a little sadness for the chapter we’re leaving behind.

I think parenting is full of these bittersweet moments, being incredibly proud of the person they’re becoming while quietly missing all the versions of them they’ve already been.

So this year, packing down summer feels different.

Here’s to new seasons, new adventures and new beginnings… while holding onto all the beautiful memories from the seasons that came before. 🍂✨💛

22/08/2026

I absolutely love this! Happy Saturday everyone 💛

Last week, my beautiful friend of over 20 years lost her fight with cancer. 💔It reminded me how little we really talk ab...
21/08/2026

Last week, my beautiful friend of over 20 years lost her fight with cancer. 💔

It reminded me how little we really talk about grief and loss.

There is no right or wrong way to grieve.
Grief is deeply personal.
It isn’t linear; it has no timescale, and it doesn’t only come from death.

We can grieve any loss.

For a child, that might be the loss of a friendship, moving away from their old school or home, changes within their family, or simply the loss of how life used to be.

As adults, we might grieve the breakdown of a relationship or friendship, losing a job, not getting the opportunity we desperately hoped for, changes to our health, or a future we thought we were going to have.

And we don’t simply “get over” grief.

Our grief becomes part of us, and slowly, our life grows around it.

I often describe it as having a love heart and a loss heart, sitting side by side. ❤️💔

Some days we feel the love more strongly. Other days, the loss feels enormous. A song, a photograph, a place, an anniversary, or the smallest unexpected reminder can suddenly make that loss heart feel very heavy again.

And that’s okay.

Because missing someone is sadness wrapped around the blessing of having known them, having loved them, and having a heart full of treasured memories you were lucky enough to make together.

Grief exists because love existed first. ❤️

So perhaps we need to talk about grief a little more, with adults and with children. Not as something that needs to be fixed, rushed or overcome, but as something we sometimes need others to sit beside us with and help us carry. 💛

This image from AskEllie.co.uk captures my frustrations with the recent Channel 4 documentary. 👌When a documentary asks ...
20/08/2026

This image from AskEllie.co.uk captures my frustrations with the recent Channel 4 documentary. 👌

When a documentary asks questions about ADHD, it has a responsibility to get the conversation right!

For anyone who missed it, Max Pemberton, who presented the program, arrogantly concluded, "I am now convinced it's a myth that ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder. Actually, I think it's a set of difficult behaviours, a social construct, not a disorder of the brain."

It is important to put that statement into context. To my knowledge, the views expressed in this programme do not represent mainstream medical consensus. ADHD itself is not considered a controversial diagnosis within mainstream medicine. Major health and medical bodies recognise it as a neurodevelopmental disorder/condition, including the World Health Organisation, the American Medical Association, and the NHS.

The programme also conducted an “experiment” in which one child stopped taking his ADHD medication for six weeks. By the end, viewers could easily have believed this was a success, as the family initially decided to continue without medication.

However, only after the credits did a brief message reveal that the family subsequently restarted the child's medication after his behaviour and academic performance at school deteriorated.

That context matters enormously.

We are not denying there are important conversations to be had.

We absolutely should scrutinise systems. We should question prescribing practices, explore why diagnoses are increasing and ask whether our schools and wider society are doing enough to accommodate neurological differences.

But we can question the system WITHOUT questioning the existence of ADHD or dismissing the lived experiences of those who have it.

A mainstream documentary had an incredible opportunity to increase understanding and challenge stigma. Sadly, I fear this programme reinforced some of the very misconceptions families have spent years trying to overcome.

Let's keep having these conversations, but let's make sure they are balanced, factual, and inclusive of the voices of people actually living with ADHD. 💛

Did you watch this? What were your thoughts? I'm only partway through and really struggling to keep going. 🫣😫💛
19/08/2026

Did you watch this? What were your thoughts? I'm only partway through and really struggling to keep going. 🫣😫💛

We are having a lovely day at the William Penn Leisure Centre family fun day. As well as having fun with feelings, the c...
07/08/2026

We are having a lovely day at the William Penn Leisure Centre family fun day. As well as having fun with feelings, the children have been sharing all the ways they SHINE ✨💛

I’ve been busy making, printing, and packaging our Rainbow of Feelings Cards 🌈 ready for our upcoming summer events. The...
05/08/2026

I’ve been busy making, printing, and packaging our Rainbow of Feelings Cards 🌈 ready for our upcoming summer events. These are now all individually handmade, with love so that I can offer them to you at the best price 💛

Local Families, make sure you come and visit me at the William Penn Leisure Centre for their Summer Carnival. I will hav...
03/08/2026

Local Families, make sure you come and visit me at the William Penn Leisure Centre for their Summer Carnival. I will have lots of fun feelings activities and games for the children, and I will be selling my Feelings Cards, Affirmation Cards, and Feelings Detective® Resource Packs. 💛

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