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  • Easter Reflections

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    Sharon Holland
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    I am writing this on Easter Sunday: Resurrection Sunday. Four months on from the start of this illness, I’m still not better. In fact, over the past few weeks I’ve not been feeling well at all, with new symptoms added. Please don’t misunderstand me, I am not saying this for your sympathy, so please don’t…

  • PECS: Enabling Communication in Children Who have an Autistic Spectrum Disorder

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    Sharon Holland
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    I recently posted a blog for Neurodiversity Celebration Week, entitled Celebrating Uniqueness. Today is World Autism Awareness Day and April is World Autism Awareness Month. I have decided to post my final year dissertation (2004) to my blog for anyone to read. I first started working with people who have an autistic spectrum disorder in…

  • Celebrating Uniqueness

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    Sharon Holland
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    This week is Neurodiversity Celebration Week, which in essence, is a celebration of uniqueness. I started working with neurodivergent people in 1986. Of course, that was several decades before the term Neurodiversity existed. In fact, at that time there wasn’t even the notion of an autistic spectrum. To be diagnosed as autistic, you had to…

  • Valentine Thoughts

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    Sharon Holland
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    Love. That’s what it’s all about isn’t it? Of course, having been married for nearly 35 years, my husband and I don’t really ‘do’ Valentine’s Day anymore. But we do still do love one another. In fact, we love each other more today than we did on the day we said “I do.” I’m not…

  • A Time for Everything

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    Sharon Holland
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    I was given this cross-stitch as a gift some 20+ years ago. Whilst I appreciated the fact that someone had taken the time to create this and put it in a lovely frame, I didn’t like it. So I said, Thank you very much, then put it in a box in the spare room, which…

  • Does Willpower Exist?

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    With the New Year now well under way, I’m wondering how everyone’s getting along with their New Year’s Resolutions. We’re going to get fitter, go to the gym five times a week, stop smoking, eat more healthy food, quit scrolling social media etc, etc, bla, bla, bla. Unfortunately, statistics indicate that almost half of New…

  • Not Everything New for a New Year

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    Sharon Holland
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    These are my thoughts that I shared this morning at church before we shared communion this morning. There’s a popular Bible verse often quoted at the start of the year. You might have already read it on YouVersion, on some other Bible app or in your daily devotion. It’s Isaiah 43:18 ‘Forget the former things;…

  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

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    Sharon Holland
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    🎶 “Until then we’ll have to muddle through somehow”🎶Christmas really doesn’t have to be chocolate box perfect or resemble the fake world that social media portrays. All that matters is being with someone you love who loves you in return.🎶”So have yourself a merry little Christmas now”🎶Sharon 🎄xx

  • Blessed Are Those Who Mourn

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    Sharon Holland
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    Grief is a path that every one of us has to walk along at some point in our lives, for most of us more than once, and for some, many times. Or maybe grief is just another section of our life path, along which we start walking the first time a loved one dies. Perhaps…

  • Every Season

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    Sharon Holland
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    I wrote this blog a year ago and posted it on my temporary blog site. Here it is in its second edition. The first edition was titled ‘Autumn’. But, as I am completing this second draft, I feel that a more suitable title is ‘Every Season’. I’m not a fan of autumn. I don’t like…