Tom'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:

For the first time since Tom started school four years ago I am not worried about his future, this is huge for me as a mother.

Tom started school with the teachers unable to understand him and no friends as he couldn�t interact with other children despite having an older bother and younger sister. After a few weeks the school identified his problems as the result of Dyslexia and Dyspraxia.

A friend showed me the article in The Times about The Sunflower Trust and I now had to get Tom on the programme so I booked an appointment with Clive in Oxford. He said that he thought that he could help him. Tom started a programme which is a course of ten different sessions which act like building blocks to create a happier child, from �bone crunching�, as Tom called it, to cranial osteopathy and watch as Tom�s body would go weak and floppy when holding a pen and paper and through Applied Kinesiology to strong and confident after the treatment holding the same pen and paper...

Tom has his own �Mantra�, which he calls his �magic spell� which gives him strength, calmness, confidence and happiness and he says it to himself in times of need.

I can never thank Clive and The Sunflower Trust enough for giving me my son back. I took Tom and my other two children to an Art Gallery Workshop last week. We (children and adults) were invited to look around the gallery and then come back and share our thoughts. The exhibition was of paintings of different sizes of circles going around and around on each other.

Tom�s hand was the first go up � in a loud confident voice Tom said �I think it is a young boy on his bike going round and round and the circles are the stories of his life�. The whole room was amazed by an eight year olds perception of life.

- Nick Curnow