For months Penny Glen, a mother of three, struggled with emotional issues which she could not have described, all of which came to bare when she realized that she could no longer communicate with her eldest daughter who moved from being a normal child to a withdrawn teenager.
And even as she struggled to find the answers to her child’s problems she had to deal with the constant misunderstandings with her mother which sometimes escalated into raucous quarrels, many of which she wished had never taken place.
All of this changed after she became involved in a ten-week self-esteem programme held in her home village Buxton through social entrepreneur and phycologist Ingrid Goodman.