There is a space between what we know, what we think we know and what we don’t know and it is these spaces that I believe are the most challenging for us individually and as a society. If we look at this on a global level and think about the things in the world that might trouble us, such as the unequal distribution of food/wealth, the damage we’re potentially doing to the environment and war, we can start to observe how we react to that. How do we make sense of that. Do we ignore it? Pretend it’s not happening?Continue reading
18 May 2013 
When is it time to shut up?
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Yesterday I spoke on BBC Radio Oxford about The Brightness of Stars and today I find myself paying the emotional price. I have an extensive emotional threshold but today I’m sat on its edge.
Kat was a superb interviewer and probably had as much knowledge on the subject of being in care as anyone would without direct or professional experience. So I was delighted that she wanted to hear more and had invited me to come and speak about my book, my experiences and my views, particularly in reference to vulnerable young people in care and the recent case of the Oxford Sex Ring.
17 May 2013 
Mental Health and Children In Care
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Yesterday I was invited to speak at the BASW Annual Conference “Giving Mental Health Prominence in Social Work”. It’s not a field I’ve worked in but I was asked to talk specifically about mental health and children in care, something I felt able to do having worked in Leaving Care Teams for a number of years in the early part of my career and also in relation to my own personal experiences.
13 May 2013 
Exploring Food and Children in Care and Adoption
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Sally: So Lisa, you talked on Woman’s Hour recently about the importance of food and taste to children in care, for those who didn’t hear the programme could you just explain?Continue reading
12 May 2013 
How Do You Decide Where To Start When Writing Your First Book?
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Consider this – the first book you write may well not be the first book you thought you’d write. Before you start writing your first book just think about the possibility that the book that you’ve been wanting to write for years and years, might well be book number two or even three!Continue reading
7 May 2013 
Five Author Websites That I Love
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When I work with clients who I’m Book Coaching, working with them to help them create their own writing projects, having an Author website is something I want to discuss pretty quickly regardless of what type of book they are writing. The people I’ve been working with most recently are writing books that range from Fiction, ‘How To’ guides, Mind Body Spirit Genre and Professional Non-Fiction.Continue reading
5 May 2013 
Food and Children in Care
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One of the areas around having been in care that has always been of great fascination to me is the matter of food and children in care. My placements as a teenager are remembered through the lens of being able to centrally locate the experience via food. Each placement offers up images, tastes and meal time routines that will never leave me.Continue reading
The Journey of Soul Journey
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A little insight into my book “Soul Journey” and some of the themes and areas of development covered….
9 April 2013 
The Gifts I Received From Thatcher
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I wasn’t going to do this. I genuinely wasn’t going to add to the huge traffic on Maggie that will ensue for the weeks ahead. But that would be wrong. I am passionate about politics and have been since I was a very young teen so a missing contribution to the death of Margaret Thatcher would be unjust especially as it was she who gave me many of the gifts that I hold dear.
She only took her last breath less than 24 hours ago yet many of us will feel that since she did, her ability to do what she did best continued for all day. It was “gruelling” said one of my friends as we sat in the middle of the pit of a divided nation. Socialists fighting with other socialists, right fighting with left, Tories fighting with Labour. All of it in full swing.Continue reading
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