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23/12/2025

Choosing to step away from the page for a few days but felt important to share this before I do.
Wishing all my followers the best possible Christmas, however it looks for you.
Thank you for all the comments, reactions and interaction with my page this year 😊

21/12/2025

For me, it’s certainly the case that the focal point of the Christmas tree isn’t only what’s under it.

I remember going to my local shop around 30 years ago and buying this angel with my mum to replace the previous item we used to place on the top.

Each year when I take it out of the decorations bag I think of her and make sure it continues to have centre stage as it were as a way of involving her in our ongoing traditions.

Our final Christmas together was twenty five years ago in 2000 and although the rawness of those early years of grief has now passed, I still miss and long to have her here.

If you too are feeling the absence of someone special at this time of year, I invite you to go gently with yourself and honour any feelings which show up. For whilst Christmas may be the most wonderful time of the year for some, it can certainly be a season of mixed emotions for many others.

20/12/2025

School may be out for Christmas but I have chosen to give myself some important work-related tasks these next few days.

Fresh from the printers yesterday, I headed out this morning to one of my nearby parkruns to promote our latest fundraiser ahead of a further training run or two before an unofficial event on New Year’s Eve.

We are hoping to raise several thousand pounds to develop our outdoor fitness equipment for the benefit not only of our pupils but also other members of the local community who have additional needs.

18/12/2025

Sometimes we can be fortunate to receive in an unexpected way a timely reminder of our capacity to grow, sparkle and shine.

A kind gift today from a lovely colleague had this effect on me. Just a year ago I was heading down a slippery path towards burnout and things had started unravelling for me on the precipice to the Christmas holidays. I entered them feeling dejected, deflated and disheartened and six weeks or so later used these words in an email which explained that if I were to continue feeling this way, I would be stepping down from my Middle Leader role.

Significant consequences would have ensued had this occurred, likely including a postponement if not complete abandonment of my dream of becoming a Protective Behaviours trainer.

Fortunately things did not work out that way and as I prepare to enter the last day of this Autumn term it’s with gratitude for those on my network who helped me work through the challenges, develop safer boundaries and pride that my own resilience and hard work led to 2025 ending as one of the happiest, most fulfilling years of my career.

15/12/2025

Choosing to chase a 10k Personal Best the last Sunday of this term was not perhaps my wisest decision.

Lots of physical and mental fatigue has accumulated over what has felt to me probably the toughest Autumn of my career.
Nevertheless, I resolved to show up and do my best, however that looked on this bright day.

Protective Behaviours as ever came to my rescue on the journey as I experienced a wave of Early Warning signs in advance of trying to complete this distance in my quickest time. Imagining my safe place helped restore some feelings of calm.

Even after months of training, it’s hard to know for sure whether the body and mind will perform as we want on the actual day, just as the best lesson plans or strategic visions don’t always work out the way we hope.

This was undoubtedly a testing endeavour for me, trying to go below 55 minutes which I never achieved in my 30s. I ran close to my limit and pushed hard to cross that finish line in a time of 54:36.

I know it may not always work out this way but the reminder that often we have more to give than we might perhaps anticipate came at a timely moment and conversely has renewed my energy for this last week before the Christmas holidays.

14/12/2025

Yesterday we marked another milestone along my brother’s running life as he volunteered as a marshall for the first time at our local parkrun.

I suspect he was looking forward to it more than I had expected as he arrived ahead of schedule and was the one to suggest we had a photo- no small feat for someone who for many years rolled his eyes and expressed impatience at our desire to stop and capture a moment. This running malarkey continues to change him in unexpected ways and ones which have undoubtedly strengthened our connection.

For any viewers of the recent series of Celebrity Race Across the World, our relationship in this respect is not too dissimilar from what appeared to be happening to the two siblings involved. Although we weren’t Risking On Purpose in a journey across countries, my actions in setting him off on Couch to 5k in 2023 have left us feeling closer than we had for years.

As luck turned out, we were able to stand together for the whole event and noticed this friendly robin pecking away behind. I am a self confessed believer in what may be called spiritual signs and had a sense that our mum was watching over us. This brings comfort as the closest thing I can ever really get to feeling wrapped inside one of her warm hugs.

Although I sometimes yearn to ask whether she would feel proud of what I do and who I am, I have no doubt that she would love to see both her children side by side and supporting one another in our adult lives.

13/12/2025

A misty, murky start to some park run volunteering today. Nevertheless loved cheering on the participants at my local event.
Wishing you all a great weekend whatever it contains 😊

11/12/2025

Life imitates art sometimes and if you asked for me for the photo which best captures my roles as Middle Leader, teacher and runner on the approach to Christmas it would be this one: in all its dishevelled, messy yet still showing up state.

I am a few days away from my final race of 2025 and keeping my fingers crossed to set a new personal best but fatigue may work against me after this long term. Nevertheless, I will be turning up with optimism, belief and confidence that the work I’ve put in is enough regardless of the final stats on the clock.

Life in classrooms and schools can feel like that too at this period, as both leaders and classroom practitioners- a sense of depleting energy yet still being present for our pupils, colleagues and families in ways which can’t always be measured by the data on the spreadsheets or assessment books.

10/12/2025

One of those big realisations which feels so obvious came to me this evening as a result of two deep conversations I had today.

These last three years have felt an incredibly exciting period of personal growth and professional development, including two promotions, speaking at a national conference, training as a Drawing and Talking practitioner and Mental Health First Aider, setting up my own therapeutic business and becoming an accredited Protective Behaviours trainer.

At times it felt like I was launching from one risk on purpose without pause to another and it has truly been a time of transformation.
Nevertheless, choosing to continuously challenge myself in many situations which did not entirely feel safe has meant little time to consolidate, rest and pause within my comfort zone.

I believe the time has come to do this awhile, secure in the knowledge that choosing to do so is not weakness but strength. How long it lasts before the next adventure or new experience awaits I do not know but for now intend embracing what this time will bring.

07/12/2025

If there’s a season above all when emotions can co-exist with greater sharpness, especially joy and sadness, for me it would be the approach to Christmas.

This weekend I went away with my dad to the English Riviera with the main attraction being the train of lights last night. It provided 80 minutes worth of mindfulness as I felt fully present in watching the landscape lit in beautiful colours and stunning light displays as the train rolled along the track. I knew it was going to be a special, joyful experience to share as my eyes filled once the festive soundtrack started playing on pulling out of the station and it certainly did not disappoint.

Earlier that day we walked alongside the beach which is one of the places I see my mum most often in my mind’s eye from those happy childhood days. Over twenty four years on since that finally family holiday here in the days before cancer had any meaning in my world, I had an awareness that she’ll never be here again.

invites us this year to consider Growing around Grief. Mine continues to shape me and be a force for good in how I choose to support others. Nevertheless, sometimes it’s important I believe to stop and acknowledge that no matter how much time passes, when someone important to us dies life can never be the same again and that sometimes there are no words to take away the pain from that reality.

06/12/2025

One of my passions as a trainer is to provide examples of the theory in practice beyond classroom based situations.

Yesterday a blustery seafront provided ample scope. In this instance, the strategies and parts of the process most apparent were:

🪬 : wearing a raincoat to protect myself from the storm and help myself feel more comfortable amidst the wind and rain

💬 : a well placed sign directing intrepid walkers such as me off the seawall in unsafe conditions

🐢 : Quite a lot of effort to keep walking into the wind and not just turn back.

I hope my ability to see these real life examples adds to my authenticity as someone who walks and talks PBs as much as teaching others about it.

05/12/2025

Even on a stormy day the seaside is my favourite place for a bit of wellbeing top up.
Happy weekend all 😊

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