Foster Carers' TSD Standards covered:
Author Details
Name: Dr Amber Elliott
Job Title: Clinical Psychologist and PAFCA Creator
What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is the practice of accepting but simultaneously letting go of negative thoughts and emotions.
An analogy that many carers and adopters have found useful in our work together has been to imagine their thoughts and feelings as a loud radio, its broadcast is invasive and preoccupying. Much of the time people deal with these thoughts and feelings by trying to control them, we try to turn the radio off, to silence the pre-