Our first FirstSigns Calendar – help raise funds and awareness
Our very first calendar, for your wall. Beautifully put together and printed for you.
Our very first calendar, for your wall. Beautifully put together and printed for you.
‘Web hit stats’ can be misleading, but we’re thrilled to see so may visitors from different countries.
We are busy planning for Self Injury Awareness Day on 1st March 2010, and we have loads of great ideas that will help make SIAD 2010 our best ever. One of these is to produce a FirstSigns calendar, and we thought it would be great if some our members could get involved and help us […]
What is it with researchers? Why is it that every study that comes out contradicts the previous one? One month coffee is good for the heart, the next it’s bad. One year mono-unsaturates are good for you, but these days we have to avoid ‘trans-fats’ – whatever they are. More people are staying in the […]
First of all, thank you to everyone who has contacted us to confirm they’ll be coming to our summer meet-up in Leeds on 11 July. If you haven’t already downloaded your invitation, please do so as it contains all the information you need. Our meet-ups are an important feature of FirstSigns, our members and our […]
After holding our Meet-ups in London and Birmingham last year, we have decided to travel further north this year in order to keep things fair for our members. Accordingly we will this year be holding our summer meet-up in Leeds on Saturday 11 July 2009 and hope to meet as many of you as possible […]
Over the coming weeks and months, one of Australian our members will be blogging for us about her journey through DBT. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy is a relatively modern therapy, and is proving to be beneficial to many people who self-injure, especially those with additional complicated mental health problems such as Borderline Personality Disorder. Avril (known […]
We had a great response to SIAD this year and many of you have contacted us, letting us know what you did and how the information on our website helped you. Some of you wanted your endeavours to remain private, and we respect that and thank you. Others were happy for the events of yourselves […]
Jav, from the BBC, contacted Wedge yesterday asking for our help in finding people to take part in the BBC Headroom campaign. As part of the ongoing campaign, Jav will be producing 5 short films focusing on self-harm. Each two minute clip will feature people sharing their experiences of how they have coped, overcome or […]
Wedge has a copy of Jan Sutton’s ‘Healing the Hurt Within – 2nd Edition’ that he’s wanting to give to one of our members. We’ve decided the fairest way to choose who gets the book is by holding a draw. So, if anyone would like a chance of winning, please email Jules@firstsigns.org.uk . There’s no […]
As you know, some time ago we changed our name from ‘LifeSIGNS’ to FirstSigns and changed our web address to match. Obviously this has an impact on how people find us, link to us and how many people visit our site. Google has to re-find our FirstSigns website and re-index us and decide where to […]
Our Message Board, as always, offers a safe, friendly, supportive and inspiring community. We discuss our lives, our emotions and the distress that leads to our self-injury and self-harm, as well as discussing ways in which we can move away from self-injury and seek happier, healthier lives. We also have some fun! The summer months […]
