So I’ve gone from my blog for just under a year now (November seems to be when I try to get back into blogging, clearly) but I hadn’t been posting a whole lot before hand. One of the things holding me back was that I felt I was drowning under a backlog of reviews I…
I think Forward’s book was one of the best ones I could have started with. I connected with her writing in a way I did not expect to from the first page, the first few words. There is a power to the words she commits to the page, a power to the horror elicited by…
This is the–rather long–report I have written regarding what we studied about child sexual abuse on my course. It contains things that are likely to be triggering for some people even though I do not mention any specific cases, and I would caution anyone who may be affected by the topic to perhaps skip on…
I’ll start by saying that this book definitely taught me some very valuable lessons and as I sit here writing this, my screen is surrounded by post-its covered in the affirmations the book encourages us to use. I want to call this a feel-good book, but that would be doing it a great injustice, because…
Another personal ramble. Sorry if this one is even less coherent than the last. Been very emotionally overwhelmed by a lot of things today and I think I just needed to get some of it out there. Maybe someone will read this and find they’re not alone and that’s literally all the good I can…
The start of my childhood development course has taken me down the alleys of thinking about how it is exactly that children develop and what it is that affects their development. History has seen many a theory being introduced to explain how it is that we develop, learn, and grow. Not all of them still…
The Serpent's Quill 