Workshops | Readings | Events
with Claire Buttrum in Cambridgeshire
Upcoming Events
Come and meet me in person whether you’re here for the healing work, writing or both.
To book me for your event, email me at claire@harmonyhealingservices.co.uk
More dates being added regularly.
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Interview
24th July | 2pm
Ouse Valley Radio
Listen in to Claire’s interview with Sue Rodwell Smith on her live show, Friday 24th July at 2pm. They’ll be talking about Little Bird, Claire’s inspiration for writing, her work in the Cambridgeshire community, and The Little Bird Fund.
Listen in to Claire’s interview on Speakeasy with Susie, a weekly radio show on Brum Radio hosted by Suzette ‘Susie’ Pluck, featuring local music and guest chats. It airs live every Wednesday at 2:00 PM UK time. They’ll be talking about Little Bird, Claire’s inspiration for writing, and her work supporting neurodivergent women.
Claire is privileged to have been included in the mental health professionals panel on 5th September performance of Right Before I Go. A beautiful and poignant, as well as humorous and hopeful, exploration of suicide. Written and performed by Stan Zimmerman and cast.
Tickets still available for 9th and 10th September.
This is a free talk for anyone who is neurodivergent, self-identifying or diagnosed, or family members. Claire will share her inspiration for writing Little Bird, and we’ll be talking about sensory overwhelm and how people cope.
Interview
Airing August
Brum Radio - Speakeasy with Susie
Panel
5th September
Soho Theatre - Right Before I Go
Free Talk
15th September | 6.30pm
Morrison’s Community Room, St Ives
Little Bird Celebration
23rd September | 7pm
Abington Barn, Abington
Join Claire for an author launch event with a difference. A beautiful, healing space where you’ll be offered a shamanic journey guided by Claire with live drumming from Thomas Marty of Cambridge Shamanism, followed by a reading, Q&A and tea. Signed copies of Little Bird will be available to purchase on the night.
This is a free talk for anyone who is neurodivergent, self-identifying or diagnosed, or family members. This talk centres on the topics of being misdiagnosed and misunderstood, not only by the medical sector, but by friends, family and loved ones. Claire will lead a discussion as well as reading excerpts of Little Bird.
Free Talk
14th October | 7pm
Citizen’s Hub, St Neots
About
The Liminal Series
Liminal. It means threshold. The charged space between one state of being and the next. Where something has already ended but what comes after hasn’t yet found its name.
These novellas live there. Each one places a character at that exact point of suspension: a teenage girl waiting to be recognised by a medical system that keeps getting her wrong; a woman alone in an endless forest, navigating by a map that’s slowly disintegrating; a father standing at the edge of grief, unable yet to take the step that would mean something is truly over.
Nothing in these books is rushed. Nothing is resolved too cleanly. The writing moves at the pace of real interior experience, slow, precise, attentive to the things that don’t get said.
Every title in The Liminal Series is published under Bright Raven Press, Claire Buttrum’s own imprint. The work grows from years of therapeutic practice; from the moments in a session when someone finally feels heard, when a family starts to make sense to itself, when a young person discovers that the system’s version of them was never the whole story.
These are not self-help books. They are literature. But they are written by someone who has sat with people in crisis, who has watched what happens when a person is truly witnessed, and who believes that the right story - told, heard, witnessed at the right moment - can shift something that nothing else could reach.
For the invisible. The overlooked. The ones still standing at the threshold, wondering whether it’s safe to cross.
Books in the series
Little Bird | A family fracturing at its edges. Told through the eyes of the sibling no one is watching. A teenage girl misdiagnosed, misread, and waiting - with extraordinary patience - to be truly seen.
Under the Willows I Five days. A grieving father. His neurodivergent son. Almost nothing happens. Everything shifts.
(not) Broken | A single day. A woman navigating perimenopause, chronic illness and the medical model, finding herself (and that she is indeed whole) in the peace of nature.
We All Fall Down | A family wandering through life. Until an unseen crisis hits.
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