I spent Friday at a fascinating conference called “Self-Harm – Self-Help” in Lincoln, organised by Lincolnshire’s Promoting Mental Health team. Apart from getting caught in what can only be described as a monsoon during my drive back to Cardiff the conference was brilliant and a great chance to communicate some of LifeSIGNS’ thinking about self-injury. […]
I spent Friday at a fascinating conference called “Self-Harm – Self-Help” in Lincoln, organised by Lincolnshire’s Promoting Mental Health team. Apart from getting caught in what can only be described as a monsoon during my drive back to Cardiff the conference was brilliant and a great chance to communicate some of LifeSIGNS’ thinking about self-injury. […]
Tuesday was a new experience for me as a LifeSIGNS trainer – instead of talking to the usual doctors, nurses or other healthcare workers, I was talking to helpline listeners of a service provided to the armed forces, courtesy of SSAFA. I had never visited an army barracks before, or indeed been in any “army” […]
Tuesday was a new experience for me as a LifeSIGNS trainer – instead of talking to the usual doctors, nurses or other healthcare workers, I was talking to helpline listeners of a service provided to the armed forces, courtesy of SSAFA. I had never visited an army barracks before, or indeed been in any “army” […]
The BBC is going to publish an article highlighting the disturbing images of wounds and self-injury that some websites and people publish on the Internet. LifeSIGNS is not ‘pro-SI’ – we understand self-injury from the inside, and we recognise that self-injury is a coping mechanism, something that people come to rely on to deal with […]
The BBC is going to publish an article highlighting the disturbing images of wounds and self-injury that some websites and people publish on the Internet. LifeSIGNS is not ‘pro-SI’ – we understand self-injury from the inside, and we recognise that self-injury is a coping mechanism, something that people come to rely on to deal with […]
I’ve spent the last couple of days in the valleys just outside Cardiff doing some Self-Injury Awareness Training with The Wallich Clifford Community, a well established charity working with homeless people in South Wales. It’s the first time I’ve doing training with an organisation like the Wallich, and I’d never previously thought about the connections […]
I’ve spent the last couple of days in the valleys just outside Cardiff doing some Self-Injury Awareness Training with The Wallich Clifford Community, a well established charity working with homeless people in South Wales. It’s the first time I’ve doing training with an organisation like the Wallich, and I’d never previously thought about the connections […]
