Mind Your Body

19/03/2026

Balloon yoga 🎈The concentration, focus and stomach muscles required for this fun exercise are incredible. Mostly because you don’t realise you’re doing any of these things. You’re just having fun 🤩

13/03/2026

Creating a safe space is the most important thing in any kind of therapy (in my opinion)! Last year this young man couldn’t be still long enough to even touch the ‘spikey’ mat. Now he lays on it for over 10 minutes. How does this magic work? REGULATION 💖 First you own, then joint, then self.

20/02/2026

EXPECTATION VERSUS REALITY: when we expect people, ‘things’ and life to be a certain way, we leave ourselves open to disappointment and suffering. If we can remove the ‘shoulds’ that our mind creates eg “life should be fair” then we can free ourselves from disappointment and suffering. I never really expected the Amazon wig to be just like the picture 😂 😜

22/01/2026

A reminder to go with the beauty that meets you. The big ‘push’ wasn’t happening, this lovely lady needed to ‘squeeze and release’ tension from her face 💖

30/12/2025

22/12/2025

My Christmas holiday read. Co-written by the amazing who I’ve learned so much from already. If you work with SEN children the chances are you’re also working with trauma.

18/12/2025

When you’ve been working with an incredibly dysregulated child for a year, trying to encourage them to experience the benefits of the ‘spikey’ mat, and they suddenly take their shoes off and do this 💖💖🙏🏻🙏🏻

14/12/2025

Open the chest and you can access the breath. Access the breath and you can calm the nervous system. That last exhale 😮‍💨 💖 with thanks to for their amazing visual helping to make this possible 🧘‍♀️

09/11/2025

SEN families, co-workers and friends can anyone recommend an art, play or music therapist with SEN experience to support me with some home education provision 🙏🏻

19/10/2025

Students love the ‘spikey mat.’ Our feet have approximately 200,000 nerve endings - more per square CM than any other part of the body. Stepping onto the reflexology mat can help to relieve mental tension and reduce stress by stimulating the nervous system. Plus it’s brave and fun 🤩

19/09/2025

How to support a pre-verbal teenager to slow his breath and calm his nervous system. Actions speak louder than words 🩵💙

24/08/2025

Food for the soul 💖