Reach for the Stars

11/10/2026

❤️👟 CHRIS’S NOVEMBER STEP CHALLENGE – EVERY STEP COUNTS! 👟❤️

🚶‍♀️🏃‍♂️ Who’s ready to get moving this November?

As part of Chris’s fundraising journey towards the London Marathon, we’re launching our November Step Challenge to raise vital funds for Cancer Research UK! 🎗️💗

We’d love you to get involved! It doesn’t matter if you prefer walking, running or simply building more steps into your everyday routine — every step counts!

👟 Here’s how to take part:
✅ Set yourself a step goal for November.
🚶 Walk or 🏃 run your way towards your target.
📱 Join our WhatsApp group using the QR code on the poster or follow link -
https://chat.whatsapp.com/JpZm5gFwtlMCL9OX6XHfBw?s=cl&p=i&mlu=4&ilr=4
to share your progress, encourage others and keep motivated.

❤️ Donate £10 or whatever you can, via PayPal to [email protected] to support Chris’s fundraising.

Whether you’re aiming for 5,000 steps a day or challenging yourself to go further, every little helps!

Let’s get our friends, families and colleagues involved, cheer each other on and turn our steps into something meaningful. Together, we can help Chris make a difference in the fight against cancer. 💗

📣 Like, share and tag your walking buddies!

Who’s joining us? 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️

09/10/2026

Home from a lovely evening celebrating the launch of our friend Christopher’s new business
An amazing spread of cheese, crackers, chutneys, crisps, drinks etc! So many different tastes!
Lovely to catch up with some people we haven’t seen in a while either!

09/10/2026

🎲 The Therapeutic Powers of Toys in Play Therapy: Board Games

Board games can offer much more than simply playing a game together.

They bring rules, choices, chance, competition and unpredictability into the playroom – creating opportunities for all sorts of feelings to emerge naturally.

Winning can feel exciting. Losing might bring disappointment or frustration. Waiting for a turn can be difficult. A lucky roll can change everything!

Within the safety of the therapeutic relationship, children can experience these moments with a play therapist who stays alongside them – without needing to rush in and fix the feeling.

Board games can offer opportunities to explore frustration, flexibility, decision-making, turn-taking, mastery and relationships, while also sharing moments of fun and connection.

And importantly, the child doesn't have to be taught any of this.

Sometimes the therapeutic value is simply in what happens between two people as they play together.

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Play therapy may look like play—because play is the medium.

It is not an unstructured break or a reward. A trained therapist works within a clear therapeutic framework, with consistent sessions, attuned responses and safe boundaries, so a child can communicate and explore experience at a developmentally appropriate pace.

The toys are visible. The clinical thinking, relationship and reflective practice are less visible—but they are what make the space therapeutic.

Save this post for the next time someone asks, “But are they just playing?”

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