The Found and Seek Blog

As a child I was always making, drawing and painting. ‘She’ll be an artist that one’ relatives used to say to my mum. I loved nothing better than sitting down for hours with a big pad of paper and some pencils. I was easy to buy for at Christmas and birthdays – anything to do with being creative, whether that was yet another set of watercolours or a make your own jewellery kit, was met with huge enthusiasm by my young self. In my teens I hung out with the art students in town. They were the tribe I felt...

PEARL’S BLOG..............     Living with a brain injury I wrote this blog from a personal view as someone living with a brain injury. It is just my own thoughts on what works for me.  I cannot say what might work for someone else – we are all different (see point 11).   Get on with it – if you think you can do something, try and do it.   Don’t be afraid of failing because if you don’t try you will never know if you could have done it. Failing to do something isn’t always a negative – it...

Trudi’s blog post....... Positive Psychology and us.  Pearl said in her last blog post that she was going to write a bit about positive psychology and how we have used it as part of our life change. We use positive psychology is all aspects of our day to day life. Not the same as positive thinking People often get positive psychology confused with positive thinking but it’s not the same. Thinking optimistically can be helpful sometimes but constantly doing so may lead to ignoring potential difficulties. Bouncing along like some kind of overly happy Tigger can lead to everything crashing...