25th June – Cheryl Dodd – BizKidz & Teenpreneur As I continue my guest blog series, today I’d like to introduce you to Cheryl Dodd of BizKidz® & Teenpreneur® Academy. I’ve known Cheryl for a few years now and really admire her business drive and achievements. Having successfully set up and grown Starz Ballet® and […]
9th June 2021 – A Mind Full of Grief: A bereavement guide for teenagers and young adults A Mind Full of Grief: A bereavement guide for teenagers and young adults – published today! I recently read an article by Professor Sir Al Aynsley-Green about the impact of bereavement on children and young people. He describes […]
7th June 2021 – Elke Thompson – Is it still ok to have cuddles? I met Elke a few years ago at a conference she was speaking at. Her story had such an impact on me that she’s stayed in mind ever since. When I decided to run a series of guest blogs from people […]
29th May 2021 – Louise Mercieca – How Food Shapes Your Child Louise is one of my fellow authors in the Sue Atkins Book Club and is a Nutritional Therapist (amongst other things – see below). I invited Louise to guest blog about her work, including her lovely book How Food Shapes Your Child and, […]
At the start of the year I joined a book club. Not in the normal sense but a club of fellow authors who all write to help with children’s mental and physical wellbeing. The club was put together by Sue Atkins, The Parenting Expert, and there are now around fifty of us! Over the coming […]
As part of Dying Matters Awareness Week, I have asked a couple of people in the Funeral and Bereavement industry to come and guest blog on my site. The second of my guests is Zoe Fallows of Prints of Tales – jewellery and gifts to “capture those very special memories of loved ones in precious […]
Since publishing Love Will Never Die in 2017 to help younger children with their grief, I have attended various conferences to help promote my work. Each time I displayed Love Will Never Die I was asked if I had anything similar for teenagers. I had so many conversations about how little there was out there […]
As part of Dying Matters Awareness Week, I have asked a couple of people in the Funeral and Bereavement industry to come and guest blog on my site. The first of my guests is John Adams of Perry and Phillips Funeral Directors in Shropshire. I first met John and his family two years ago at […]
As we enter this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week, with the theme being Nature, I had planned to write a little about how much I love living by water. Having grown up in Macclesfield, about 15 miles south of Manchester, the best we had up there was a river and a few canals! We spent […]
Welcome to my newly designed website created by the wonderful Sam Griffiths of Miss’Chief Creative. I hope you all love it as much as I do! What better way to celebrate its launch than to introduce you to the lady behind it… Sam and I worked together many moons ago and have always stayed in […]