REFLECTIONS: THE BLOG

REFLECTIONS: THE BLOG

Why open Pandora's box and look at the impact of Boarding School?

I hear this often.  Sometimes clients come with trepidation, aware that Boarding School was very traumatic for them. Others come saying, “I had a grea...

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Were you Abused at Boarding School?

In 2019, 4 former teachers and the chaplain from the boarding school I went to were jailed for sexual abuse. I could name you several others, who have...

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How Do I Explain How Boarding School has Impacted me to my Partner?

This is a question I have been asked often.

Unfortunately, most people I work with who are exploring the impact of their boarding school upbringing a...

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You Would Not Expect that at a Public School

A 16-year-old boy was charged with two accounts of attempted murder in a boarding school in Devon.  He wishes to remain anonymous, but with his permis...

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"I wouldn't send a dog to Boarding School aged 7." (John Bowlby - Founder of Attachment Theory).

John Bowlby's Attachment Theory explains the impact that early childhood relationships and experiences have on our development. He attains that childr...

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The Travel Bug or the Search for Belonging?

This morning I received a message from my 18-year-old daughter who is currently partying away at the Full Moon Party in Thailand. "I think I'll be rea...

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Remembrance

#suicide

Thursday, March 15th, 1990.

I was sitting in history when we noticed some disruption over the field by the railway line. At break, we were ...

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How having Covid switched back on my Survival Personality

When my lateral flow test was positive and my children's tests were negative, we made the decision for my children to spend the ten days with their da...

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Groups - Love them or loathe them?

Last weekend I went to Edinburgh for a wedding with a group of friends I have made at my local CrossFit gym. It was planned months ago and as it appro...

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Relationships with Parents and Harry Styles

A few weekends ago I spent the night with my teenage daughter and 90,000 others at Wembley Stadium watching Harry Styles perform. This was planned for...

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Parallels of dropping your child at university with boarding school.

This September I made the long drive from Brighton to Edinburgh to take my eldest daughter to University for the first time. We could have taken the t...

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How busy are you?

Present-day Boarding School websites proudly tell parents that their timetable of constant activities, especially in the first few weeks of term, leav...

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