Boarding School Survivors
Attending boarding school can settle patterns of behaviour and unexpressed feelings that can last a lifetime. These patterns can turn up in work, in the family, with children or intimate relationships. Perhaps .....
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you are living by rules created a long time ago
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you don't 'feel' like others do
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you can't express what your partner wants to hear
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you don't want your children to go through what you went through
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you may feel 'locked up' in your life
We'll work together to identify the patterns that are turning up in your life and what they mean for you now and how you might like that to change. Everybody's experience is unique but there are some shared moments in how ex. boarders adapt to make sense of being sent to a school to live, sometimes in a foreign country. You are not alone in what you experience.
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Selected Resources for ex Boarders
If you are currently at Boarding School and need to talk to someone then please call Childline on 0800 1111 or visit their website here
Boarding School Survivors Support - information and annual conference for BSS. The conference is held every November in London - details on the website
Boarding School Survivors - information, workshops and therapy recommendations
Podcasts, Books and Films
Podcast - An Evolving Man - Piers Cross
The Making of Them - book and film - Nick Duffell
Wounded Leaders - Nick Duffell
Boarding School Syndrome - Joy Schaverin
Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege - Nick Duffell and Thurstine Basset
Finding Our Way Home - Women's accounts of boarding school
Men's Accounts of Boarding School - Routledge
Beserker - Adrian Edmondson
Stiff Upper Lip - Alex Renton