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I remember sitting in a training course on challenging behaviour. It was the first time I had really faced how difficult my daughter’s behaviour could be at times and it was very tough. I remember sitting on the front row, feeling like a rabbit in headlights. I couldn’t quite believe I was sat there. How could this be my life? I learned a lot about how to work with the challenging behaviour which helped me a lot.

Yet, I also had this incredible mixture of emotions: grief, loss, anger, fear, sha…

I have a really different perspective on manifestation now. In the past I have really beaten myself up because my life has gone in a drastically different direction to my vision board…Not just slightly off track, but life has decided to take a completely different mode of transport in a random country that I didn’t even recognise!

How have I manifested this? This was so NOT the plan!

Now I appreciate there is a bigger picture that we are not party to. Our lives our inextricably intertwined wit…

Day 4 of Thomas’s new treatment and so far so good. It’s so lovely to see him happy and playing. He is also growing and developing which is incredible to me under the circumstances!

He said to me the other day that the giants in the film Frozen worried him. This was so incredible to me in so many ways.

It was a word he had not used before. He understood it and used it in a sentence. His singing is also developing, with him singing the vast majority of the words to Old McDonald had a Farm, prog…

I’m really excited to announce that I have qualified in FreeMind rapid Change Therapy, specialising in inner child healing. My case studies were completed with parents who have children who experience the world differently.

It was fascinating to help people explore their values and beliefs, and different past experiences which were having an impact on their current lives and parenting styles.

It amazes me to see how much more capacity people have for parenting when their own internal needs are…

My kids have always amazed me with their endless creativity and ways of thinking outside the box. I am in awe of how their brains work and how they come up with things that surprise me. Living in a household of neurodiverse people can bring lots of solutions that you might never have otherwise considered.

My daughter was 5 when she came up with this idea, after I asked her to go and find 2 socks so we could go out.

She did come back with 2, although not in the way I had anticipated. She took t…

It has been a whirlwind couple of weeks, starting at home on Thursday 4th March at home with an ambulance to Gloucester, the confirmation of Thomas’s leukaemia on the Friday morning and transferring to Bristol Children’s Hospital to start chemotherapy the same day.

He has done so well with treatment so far, which is full on by anyone’s standards. We are in the best possible place and the Drs and nurses are so on the ball with both Down Syndrome and Leukemia which is awesome. I’m so impressed an…

‘I’m not cut out for this’ I thought. ‘The universe has got the wrong person. I’m just not up to the job.’ This was a really pivotal moment for me. To say I had had a tough year was an understatement. It had been the most intense experience of my life that brought me to my knees so many times I’d lost count. And yet I was still on this planet, breathing in and out, and that meant there must be some hope, right?

There were 3 main headline events from the previous 12 months of my life. The first …

Being in the eye of the storm feels really tough. Disorientating, panic, uncertainty, fear, a swirling groundlessness.

Even after the storm has passed, there can be fall out, debris, perhaps things feel broken and it’s difficult to see how life can be put back together.

There is shock, why me and a whole host of competing emotions that we often have to push away just to get through the day.

My experiences with parenting my own kids who have vastly different ways of being in the world, vastly …

People don’t always understand how tough it can be to parent a child who experiences the world differently.

To have to stand up to family and friends who think it should be done one way, to stand up to professionals who have ideas that don’t necessarily make sense for our kids, to juggle work with trying to convince our kids to go to school, when school is open, to manage appointments with professionals, to fight for the right support when it should be given.

So many hoops to jump through. So …

Are you struggling with lockdown? I have recorded this meditation for parents with kids who experience the world differently and it is my gift to everyone.

“Wow Charlie. This was one of the most powerful meditations I’ve ever done. I think it’s because of you. You are so authentic and you exude a resonnance that comes from real life experience. This was very good to help release life long emotions and start people on a very potent healing journey. Thank you x”

Feel free to listen if you need a…