Welcome
My writing career started as a teenager as a junior reporter at the Caribbean Times and filing culture reports for BBC Radio WM. Along the way I met the magnificent Toni Morrison, poets Benjamin Zephaniah and John Agard, and was awarded first place in the Youth Penmanship Awards aged 18, with my essay ‘What makes a Black person Black?
I worked at Transworld Publishers, surrounded by proofs and manuscripts, before switching to creative and management roles in PR and corporate communications, where I turned my hand to video scripts, features articles media releases.
Eventually I returned to my passion for creative writing to come to terms with the loss of my mother my son’s autism, ADHD diagnosis. I wrote and published my first poetry collection, Songs of My Soul in 2017, to wide acclaim.
My Books
Songs of my Soul, my first poetry collection. Writing has a direct connection to the soul. My soul was full of confusion. I was bereaved and in love. Our shared human experiences are more alike than they are different, even when we live in different cities, speak in different languages and wear different skins. Our human experiences of love, loss, lust, grief and belonging are universal. As I hit the keyboards to try to figure things out, Songs of my Soul came into being.
Send in the Clowns: S.E.N.D. in the Clowns started as a collection of diary entries. A cathartic way to cope with the injustice and frustration I felt. I wanted to tell my story and it evolved into a story for other families too, to help them feel empowered as they navigate a system that struggles to educate children with ‘difference’.
#happyinschool
www.happyinschoolproject.com
I set up the #happyinschool project, to develop deeper understanding in parents and educators of the challenges young people and their families with neurodiversity encounter in accessing quality education.
I have researched and written hundreds of programmes addressing these issues and amassed anonymous insight from families and professionals along the way.
I’m committed to improving wellbeing for autistic, ADHD children and young people, their families and educators, using integrative practice, CBT, storytelling, decades of experience and intuition, as my tools. I deliver tailored programmes for schools, local authorities, charities, businesses and offer dynamic ADHD and autism coaching to families and parent/carer groups.
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