Sareena Rai

MA Dramatherapy•Bsc (hons) SaLT•Intersectional•150Leaders•SLPRacematters•CoDH anti-racism group•CAHPO ethnic advisory group•BADth Inclusivity+Visibility•She/Her

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#therapy #integenerational #trauma

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Meet Shailaja Paik, a Dalit MacArthur genius pushing back against caste discrimination:
https://t.co/42kztSwp5q

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@shuranjeetsingh Fantastic work 👏👏👏

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@SusanPriceRD @salil_parkar @badthofficial It was so lovely to meet you Susan, you’re so very welcome, it was my pleasure 🤗 and thank you for your feedback and sharing afterwards 🪴

All the best. 🌱

[Susan Price (she/her) @SusanPriceRD]

Thanks @SRDramatherapy for your presentation at the Midlands AHPEM Network Meeting

Fascinating to hear about Drama Therapy, the difference across our 4 nations, and the ethnicity of #dramatherapists

Thank you @salil_parkar & Malany as always!
@badthofficial @salil_parkar

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Arts Psychotherapies such as Dramatherapy, fill an important gap, which other psychological interventions struggle to fill.

We offer creative tools which can aid in self discovery and self expression, which can help people in their healing journey following significant trauma.

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If there’s one take home message for the wider NHS network, it’s that we must involve lesser known AHP’s like Dramatherapy into the workforce, lest we risk losing a key part our NHS workforce, because enough wasn’t done in time.

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It was such a pleasure to present my journey into Dramatherapy today, at the Midlands Allied Health Professions, Ethnic Minorities meet up (AHPEM)

I thoroughly enjoyed meeting the group and sharing some of the key points in my personal journey to my current practice.

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@BBCRadio2 Gorgeous adoption story just now about Summer, very moving.

Happy 10 year family anniversary! -Great song choice for the annual anniversary celebration too!

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@MrHariParekh @RADA_London Thank goodness for Dramatherapy! We just need more people to know what it is now.

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@ClaireGodwin1 @carotomes More a satirical comedy of errors. Quite ridiculous.

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@ClaireGodwin1 @carotomes Oh I could tell you some stories about the interviews I’ve been attending recently 🤦🏽‍♀️

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@AliciaBurnettUK @SueMacMidwife @GailRCM Incredible Alicia, so well done!!! 🥳🥳

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We’re also experienced in helping individuals discover, develop and implement positive coping mechanisms, vital for emotional regulation (-from an ever growing evidence base) There’s such a need for more awareness around less commonly known AHP’s-the research is there!

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There’s still such a lack of knowledge of what Dramatherapist’s do and the breadth of our training.

We aren’t just glorified sock puppets- I promise you!

We ARE trauma informed and know a lot about attachment based trauma’s that can lead to maladaptive coping strategies… 1/2

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

When Tina Turner left her first husband - who was also her boss, captor, and brutal tormentor - she snuck out of their Dallas hotel room with a single thought in her mind: "The way out is through the door."
From there she fled across the midnight freeway, semi-trucks careening past her, with 36 cents and a Mobil gas card in her pocket. As soon as she decided to walk out that door, she owned nothing else.
When she filed for divorce, she made an unusual request. She didn't want anything: not the song rights, not the cars, not the houses, not the money. All she wanted was the stage name he gave her - Tina - and her married name - Turner. This was the name by which the world had come to know her, and keeping it was her only chance to salvage her career.
Things could have gone a lot of ways from there. She could have labored in obscurity for decades, maybe making records on small labels to be prized by vinyl connoisseurs in Portland. She could have stayed in Vegas, where she first went to get her chops back up, and worked as a nostalgia act. And, of course, given what she had been through, she might have ... not made it.
What happened instead is that Tina Turner became the biggest global rock star of the 80s. I'm old enough to barely remember this, but if you aren't, it was like this: The Rolling Stones would headline a stadium one day, and the next day it would be Tina Turner. A middle-aged Black woman - she became a rock star at 42! - sitting atop the 1980s like it was her throne.
She managed this because of whatever rare stuff she was made of (this is a woman whose label gave her two weeks to record her solo debut, Private Dancer, which went five times platinum); because she decided to speak publicly about her abusive marriage and forge her own identity, and in doing so give hope and courage to countless women; and also because - in a perhaps unlikely twist for a girl from Nutbush, Tennessee - she had her practice of Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism, to which she credited her survival. She remained devout until the end.
Tina's second marriage - to her, her only marriage - was to Edwin Bach, a Swiss music executive 16 years her junior. Of him, she said, "Erwin, who is a force of nature in his own right, has never been the least bit intimidated by my career, my talents, or my fame."
In 2016, after a barrage of health problems, Tina's kidneys began to fail. A Swiss citizen by then, she had started preparing for assisted suicide when her husband stepped in. According to Tina, he said, "He didn't want another woman, or another life."
He gave her one of his kidneys, buying her the remainder of her time on this earth and perhaps closing a cycle which took her from a man who inflicted injury upon her to a man willing to inflict injury upon himself to save her from harm.
Born into a share-cropping family as Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, she died Tina Turner in a palatial Swiss estate: the queen of rock 'n roll; a storm of a performer with a wildcat-fierce voice; a dancer of visceral, spine-tingling potency and ability; a beauty for the ages; a survivor of terrible abuse and an advocate for others in similar situations; an author and actress; a devout Buddhist; a wife and mother; a human being of rare talent and perseverance who, through her transcendent brilliance, became a legend.

Will Stenberg

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Just hanging

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Here’s a photo of my dog enjoying his ice cream and providing me with some much needed humour, after I’d completed quite a few NHS job applications for CAMHS roles.

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It’s neurodiversity week and lots of options to learn from, to build better classrooms and workspaces.

https://t.co/fa4DPxQjw3

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Artwork by Street Cats YYC @StreetCatsYYC

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