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Karen Law
6 days ago4 min read
Overcoming Procrastination and Finding Focus: My Personal Journey with ADHD
Let’s talk about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Living with undiagnosed Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has...
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Karen Law
Dec 15, 20243 min read
“Spanking? Never did me any harm”
Earlier this year, I had a confrontation with someone who claimed I was entirely at fault. I attempted to defend myself and apologized...
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Karen Law
Dec 9, 20244 min read
Understanding my Freeze Response: One Journey to Recognizing and Addressing a Dysregulated Nervous System
On Wednesday, several teams gathered for a day in Edinburgh with the senior leadership at the charity where I work. For a colleague and...
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Karen Law
May 1, 20242 min read
Why Bother?
Many people don’t prioritise regular massage as they see it as a luxury with little real benefit. I, however, hasten to disagree - as do...
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Karen Law
Jun 8, 20226 min read
Should you feel compassion for prisoners?
ACE-Aware Scotland held the third ACE-Aware Nation conference on 1st June 2022. The first was in September 2018 with the international...
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Karen Law
May 29, 20227 min read
I AM good enough
I start a new part time job tomorrow. I am beyond excited. Great, you say, but people start new jobs all the time, what’s the big deal?
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Karen Law
Dec 21, 20213 min read
Reflecting on 2021
Well, 2021 is rapidly drawing to a close. I don’t know about you but I found 2021 much harder than 2020. Just as in 2020 there were...
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Karen Law
Apr 23, 20213 min read
Moving on as we emerge from lockdown
You have an incredible inbuilt, automatic, safety mechanism to alert you to danger and take steps to preserve life. All living beings...
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Karen Law
Apr 6, 20216 min read
Attention seekers and time wasters?
She’s barely an adult. So what has she experienced to date? We are told she had a difficult upbringing. Yet she is pathologised and blamed
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Karen Law
Mar 23, 20214 min read
#NotAllMenButEnough!
I recently shared a post on my personal Facebook page following outrage over the death of Sarah Everard and the police handling of the...
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Karen Law
Dec 30, 20208 min read
Understanding why you've found 2020 so challenging!
In our modern societies we are spending a lot of time in stress through work, relationships, health concerns, politics, pandemics...
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Karen Law
Oct 13, 20205 min read
A powerful new way to change your life
QEC is a wonderful way of supporting people to make lasting changes to their lives.
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Karen Law
Sep 8, 20204 min read
Reflecting on the summer of 2020
Now that we’re into September, and the end of summer, I reflect on the year so far. It seems that we’d barely started 2020 and...
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Karen Law
Jun 27, 20205 min read
Behind the PPE: what helped me feel safe
...We started speaking as he lifted his arm up to invite me to connect through touch. Obviously a hand shake is out of the question...
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Karen Law
May 14, 20203 min read
Touch, Trauma & Today
...the significance of dealing directly with trauma through Touch had massive potential for improving mental and physical health...
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Karen Law
Mar 6, 20202 min read
Soothing the Nervous System
Every single human being needs to know that they are: Not alone (even surrounded by people we can sometimes feel terribly alone) Safe In...
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Karen Law
Jan 28, 20204 min read
Walking the Talk. Why you should come and see me.
All my life I was told I was the strong one. No, I wasn’t. There just was no space for me to be heard. So I didn’t say anything
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Karen Law
Jan 20, 20203 min read
Wounded people wound people.
Do you believe that a happy, well rounded individual, who feels loved and wanted, bullies or attacks others?
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Karen Law
Jan 5, 20203 min read
Reacting to threat - Part 3
It is recognised that trauma is being experienced by many of us on a daily basis simply by hearing of it on the news & via our social media
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Karen Law
Jan 4, 20204 min read
Reacting to threat - Part 2
What is Trauma? The word trauma is being used so much now as awareness of Adverse Childhood Experiences has increased and people have...
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