Nightline is an important student-lead listening service that many Universities run, and LifeSIGNS has always been pleased to provide self-injury training to Nightlines across the UK. London Nightline is unique among Nightlines as it provides its service across all of the Universities of London, not just one campus. I was very pleased to be invited […]
Nightline is an important student-lead listening service that many Universities run, and LifeSIGNS has always been pleased to provide self-injury training to Nightlines across the UK. London Nightline is unique among Nightlines as it provides its service across all of the Universities of London, not just one campus. I was very pleased to be invited […]
Is it just me or have you noticed the topic of self injury becoming more and more prevalent in the media recently? But increasingly it is cropping up in more and more TV soaps and programmes, potentially as part of story lines that attracted hundreds of thousands of viewers. This week as made me think […]
BBC News 24 Wednesday 4th JulySelf Harm There will be a repeat on BBC News 24 on the weekend. At the moment the times it will be shown are not confirmed but we think around 5.30pm and then again after 8pm.
BBC News 24 Wednesday 4th JulySelf Harm There will be a repeat on BBC News 24 on the weekend. At the moment the times it will be shown are not confirmed but we think around 5.30pm and then again after 8pm.
Last Wednesday LifeSIGNS was thrilled to be invited to Whitehall, London to attend a meeting with Ivan Lewis, the Minister for Care Services in the Department of Health. It was a positive response to the ‘Political Awareness Project’ by myself and Nick which aims to get Self-injury and ‘SI awareness’ on the political agenda. And […]
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” […]
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 […]
The home page of the LifeSIGNS website is a bit busy I admit; there’s a lot going on and I sometimes wish it was a bit less complex; but then, there’s so much on offer! Anyway, while I haven’t simplified our homepage yet, I have made it load faster for you! It now displays in […]
