If you buy gay-interest magazines, surf gay news sites, or are part of any of the gay community websites then you’ve probably heard everything you want to hear about ‘gay rights’, ‘queer politics’ and the ‘pink pound’. Truth is, you may well be sick of being spoken down to by the older queer leaders of […]
I just noticed, after years of Google giving LifeSIGNS a PageRank score of 4 out of 10, we’ve just gone up to 5!Check for yourself! Only the largest, most popular websites have a PageRank of 9 or 10, for LifeSIGNS to get 5 must mean that some decent, high-quality websites are linking to us – […]
Women’s Own magazine are hoping to do a feature on adult self-injury, in time for SIAD, which is great. We’re always pleased to get LifeSIGNS members involved with raising awareness within the Media, and I hope you’ll consider joining our ‘Media Alert Team’ mailing list so we can email you with any Media Requests and […]
We are ever so proud of this edition of LifeSHINES, it’s got so much in it! Jules has written an important article about bullying; a gentleman has written an insightful and moving story of how he discovered his wife’s SI; Cait has written about telling her Mum about her SI; and we feature poems from […]
We have the best Message Board! We really do, and here’s why. We’ve got a large, vibrant and friendly community of supportive people who understand self-injury – and we’ve got a great Moderator team to run the Board, keep it safe, and to help Members around the forums; We’ve just upgraded the software of our […]
We had a lot of fun last year, taking photos of anything and everything orange, so, if you’re a Flickr Member, please do come and join the official ‘Hunt for Orange’ Flickr Group! It’s all to raise awareness in time for Self-Injury Awareness Day, and anything Orange is welcome. Thanks to Jenny for setting the […]
It’s always a pleasure to see Dr. Neil and help out in his classes at the (not so) nearby teaching hospital. Last month I spoke to a class of qualified doctors, today I spoke to a lively class of medical doctors who, I think, were in their psychiatry module of their ongoing education and training. […]
LifeSIGNS is thrilled to offer our revised guidance to schools, colleges and universities, and we’re more than thrilled to note that there are plans to print and distribute our guidance across 200 schools in Ireland! Download your free copy of our new guidance, see our Publications page. The LifeSIGNS Voluntary Organisation is user-led, and our […]
We now have a Bebo profile page, as well as our Facebook ones. Here’s the official ‘invitation’ to be LifeSIGNS’ friend, www.bebo.com/a/invite/5406448419a516200807b65 and you can see our profile at: www.bebo.com/lifesigns I’ll do my best with the profile in the next seven days! Wedge
(founded by NAWP (Newham Asian Women’s Project) Having worked with NAWP previously, we we’re pleased to be invited to speak to their Self-harm Group, an association of health care professionals who meet regularly to discuss and improve health care policies and their implementation within East London. Jules and I found our way through Stratford and […]
From April 2008, the Government plans to replace Patient Forums with Local Involvement Networks (LINks). Patient Forums help groups of patients be involved with healthcare and influence the NHS. LINks are being introduced to help strengthen the system that enables communities to influence the care they receive. Backed up by certain powers, LINks will: provide […]
LifeSIGNS will be back online tonight, with a fresh new logo to match our refreshed organisation structure. As a Voluntary Organisation, we are user-lead, and we’ll be wanting to recruit new people to join us on the Management Committee, so we hope to let you know more in the New Year. The Newsletter has been […]
