Tag: boardingschool
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The ‘Privilege’ of Boarding School
A process of healing With my colleague Sorrel Pindar, I’ve been putting together a programme for Boarding School Survivors. You can find out more about it here. We explore strategies for moving beyond a sense of disconnection, isolation and anxiety. Sorrel and I both trace these feelings back to having been sent to Boarding School…
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Feeling like I belong: recovering from boarding school.
Christmas used to be a time of isolation. Slowly, that’s changing. Christmas has always been a difficult time for me. There’s a tension between what we’re told it is — togetherness, family, community, peace, joy, generosity — and how I experienced it. I’ve always experienced it as a time of heightened anxiety and uncertainty. The…
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Restlessness
The dark side of the imagination I’ve always been restless. It’s served me well much of the time. I don’t accept things because ‘that’s how they are’. I don’t accept ‘that’s how I am’ either. I ask ‘why?’ I ask ‘what about?’ (of myself and of the world). I wonder, mull and imagine different. Imagination…