Coming out about self-injury to the people closest to us is a difficult decision to make. How the other person reacts is bound to have a serious affect on us, be it positive or negative, and so it’s important to think about that first conversation (if possible) before you have it. Or maybe you aren’t […]
Gift giving is a lovely tradition, and many people enjoy tracking down the perfect gift, the present they know will make their loved one smile. But Christmas can be expensive. How many times have you had to break your budget to be able to get the gifts you want, or enough gifts for everyone? Each […]
Wedge pops in to ask how you feel about websites that claim to be ‘official’ but are really just hobby websites that soon get abandoned and neglected. Don’t you want to be able to trust the organisations on the web?
Hello there; maybe you’ve known about FirstSigns (previously LifeSIGNS) for years now, or maybe you’ve just found our website and Message Board. Either way, I hope you can see how much love and energy have been poured into our work. Running a website for seven years isn’t free of cost – financially, physically and emotionally […]
Jules and I went on our travels on Sunday, down to Wells, near Glastonbury. Come Monday morning, we were in the thick of the day’s Self-Harm Conference, called ‘The Injured Self’. We were fortunate to be invited when Alison Leyland (of Living Change) heard me speak at the CPC Conference (London) in May. Alison organised […]
Jules and I are off on our travels (as usual!) to attend and speak at a conference on self-harm this coming Monday. Alison (from Living Change) has done a grand job organising everything (including us!) and we’re thrilled that, after seeing us at the last conference I spoke at, she’s invited us to be part […]
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 […]
On Wednesday I travelled to the Peterborough area to meet with people at Mind who run a drop-in and support centre. It was great to hear their thoughts and experiences around the subject of self-injury, and I hope our training package was of some help to them in their work. FirstSigns travels all over the […]
Jules and I spent a night in Glasgow at the weekend to meet Trevor, a professional social entrepreneur and expert fund raiser. FirstSigns must grow – we’ve been bigger in the past and we’d get more work done and have a greater impact if we had more people involved and more money to support the […]
Do you look for the happy outcome each day, or do you find yourself focusing on what has gone wrong and what could go wrong? Our feelings are powerful drivers – they can drive us to achieve great things in life or they can drive us to despair and self-destruction (self-sabotage). But our emotions are […]
I want to thank you for reading our blog and visiting our self-harm awareness website. It means a lot to me, to have engaged and interested visitors. It means a lot to Jules and me when we hear back from members or visitors who tell us that our stories, articles and information has affected them, […]
Just to let you know that we’ve got our new F.A.Q.s online now, to help you reflect on our recent announcement about the new name and web-address for our voluntary organisation. Read the FAQs – and feel free to comment / send us new questions Read the actual Organisation Announcement – learn the startling facts […]
