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Self-care and wellbeing

Caring for the carer? 

An adoptive parent shares how supporting special needs can be very hard and it’s easy to neglect ourselves due to all the pressures of keeping the wheels on everyone else: “I write this as I have seen recently the effects that secondary trauma has had on my own body where it can take its toll on us in so many ways, which really makes everything so much harder. Here’s where I have started by writing a list of the things I used to like to do…. I had lost sight of the simple things I can change…”

Spotlight on masking

When children return home from school their ‘lid may fly off’, or they may freeze, due to having had to mimic or hide how they really feel inside.


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