My body didn’t know how to be still When my children were very small, things in our house were… let’s just say, lively. We weren’t anywhere near crisis point and we weren’t in the school system yet, but I’d been aware for a while that things looked a bit different. At the time, I just […]
My body didn’t know how to be still Read More »
When your PDAer becomes the demanding one Something that gets talked about a lot with PDA is demand avoidance. But there’s something else that goes on, often behind closed doors, that isn’t as widely talked about, understood, or even named. And that is the tendency of a PDAer, when dysregulated and distressed, not just to
When your PDAer becomes the demanding one Read More »
The thing we don’t say out loud about the school holidays It’s the half term holiday in the UK, and this can look very different in families like ours. I know there’ll be parents reading this who have spent the last few days barely leaving the house. Because everywhere is too busy. Too loud. Too
The thing we don’t say out loud about the school holidays Read More »
A different kind of hard I’ve been reflecting that Easter holidays, for a lot of us in this community, are not a break. They’re just a different kind of hard. The structure disappears. The routine that took weeks to build – the one that made mornings just about manageable – gone. And in its place,
A different kind of hard Read More »
