Some current work I am exploring is stitch, in free machine embroidery, hand embroidery, and applique. I have long had a curiosity about body, life, wounds, partly through my background in nursing (mainly in trauma nursing and working as a theatre nurse) and also, a fascination about how things work, whats underneath. The applique bodies […]
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The trauma of being a jellyfish
Jelly fish are one of those creatures that we rarely see in day to day life. You will be surprised to hear they have been around 600 million years, before dinosaurs, tree’s, fungi, and have survived five mass extinctions. They definitely know a thing or two about survival! Stranded Sometimes jellyfish get washed up on […]
Trauma & The Fragmented Self
We all experience trauma at some point in our lives. When we experience a trauma that is so impacting on our sense of self, the way that we respond to keep ourselves safe, is by the fight, flight, freeze and flop response. (I am not going into the detail of how this works in this […]
The Butterfly Hug Technique for Trauma
What do we see when a butterfly flies passed on a summers day? do we see the journey they have taken to become, the changes that have taken place to create such beautiful creatures? The Butterfly Hug Over the years, when working with clients who have experienced trauma, or anxiety, and through my own personal […]
The Safe Space
The Safe Space – somewhere to go when you feel unsafe or overwhelmed, somewhere to go to bring you back to the present. If you think about where you normally feel ‘safe’ where would that be? the first place for me personally is at home with my family. However, I have more recently found that […]