Post-Christmas

How are you after the Christmas break?  This is a time of family-closeness that so many of the children find difficult.   If you survived in tact, then expect some fall-out in the next week or two.  Anticipating fall-out often helps it not to be so devastating.   Good times are hard for children who don't trust 'love'.  Their belief is either 'I don't deserve anything good' or 'I don't need anyone - I only trust myself'.  If you get shouted at and told what a rotten parent you are, hear it as 'this has been hard for me and I am worried that my world is going to fall in like it has done in the past'.  If that is what they said, how would you respond?
But we, here at Catchpoint wish you all a very Happy New Year and some peaceful times.  
Here is a leaf covered in ice - beautiful but hard to hold. 

Joy