the user-led self-injury organisation.

  • UK
  • hello@lifesigns.org.uk
[shortcode here]

InstaLifeSIGNS

"Self-Harm – Self-Help" Conference

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. […]

Read more

Recent Training Sessions

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” […]

Read more

Training for a homelessness charity

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 […]

Read more