
To listen or not to listen; is that the question?
I learnt to #listen to what was not being said as a child. I was attuned very keenly to the behaviours in my family and my classmates. I was often puzzled and worried about what was happening between individuals in groups. I didn’t know how to speak up about this as a child, and so a lot of it was squashed and some of it came out as outbursts of frustration and anger. When I was in my early 30s, I decided to become a Samaritans volunteer and did this for around five years. Fo