James's story

Patients' Stories

The following is an excerpt from a letter written to Mr Clive Lindley-Jones regarding one of his recent Sunflower therapy patients:

I promised to let you know how James got on in his exams. His improvement has been remarkable. He came top in his year group in both Maths (96%) and Geography (92%), then French 86% Religious studies 83%, History 77% and Science 69% in all cases he came near the top. His English teacher is on paternity leave and so we still await the results. I don't say that the Sunflower therapy magically made him cleverer; he worked like a demon to get these results. But I do believe that the therapy enabled him to build up both his confidence and concentration to be able to achieve this.

James has always been quite mathematical, but his exam results have always been quite low as he struggled to keep up the pace, he found it extremely difficult to finish the paper leaving him with results around 68% (Christmas). A couple of months ago when we were at Clive Lindley -Jones' (Our Sunflower Therapist) Clive asked him to write on one side of a plank of wood what he really wanted to achieve in the future and on the other side, whom he wanted to do it for. Clive then asked Freddie to really think about it and when he was ready to punch through the plank. It broke on first impact. I still have that plank of wood.

On one side it said 'Get faster at my Maths and on the other side it said 'Dad'

We really feel we have our James back he has never been so happy!

- James's Mother