Yvonne's Blog

Recently I was invited to the University of West London to talk to Level 4 Social Work students. The topic of discussion was resilience....

October is a celebratory month. My autobiography Daughter Arise has turned ten years old. I cannot believe it has been a decade since I...

Over the last 20 years, I have kept diaries that I journal in as a way of gathering my thoughts and to reflect on my progression through...

At the beginning of the year I wrote about the importance of setting goals and having something positive to focus on. I have found this...

It is easy to assume because you survived through the initial brutal battlefield of childhood abuse that once you become of age, the road...

I remember as a child reading the story ‘the ugly duckling’ by Danish Poet and Author Hans Christian Anderson. It tells the tale of a...

I had yet another wonderful opportunity to organise, manage and co-ordinate the annual foster carers reception for the local authority...