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10/10/2024

On this important awareness day, my prayer is that every day is Mental Health Day please! Our mental health is as fragile as our physical health. But, with the right help, we can realise that we can become so much stronger and become a better version of ourselves. ❤️🙏❤️

16/03/2024

We don’t say this lightly. The number of young people struggling with their mental health is at an all-time high. Yesterday the Government had another opportunity to announce plans for the future in the Autumn budget, but there was no mention of improving mental health support for young people.

It’s unacceptable.

Young people make up around 18% of demand on NHS mental health services, but receive just 8% of the budget.

This isn’t sustainable. The current system simply cannot cope with the huge pressure to keep up with demand. Waiting times will get longer. More young people will likely end up in crisis. Staff already working above and beyond their call of duty will be stretched even more thinly.

We can’t call this a crisis anymore. This is a mental health emergency. And the Government need to take radical action.

Every young person should be able to get the support they need, when they need it, no matter what. We won’t give up on making this happen.

27/11/2023

This needs shouting about 😞

We don’t say this lightly. The number of young people struggling with their mental health is at an all-time high. Yesterday the Government had another opportunity to announce plans for the future in the Autumn budget, but there was no mention of improving mental health support for young people.

It’s unacceptable.

Young people make up around 18% of demand on NHS mental health services, but receive just 8% of the budget.

This isn’t sustainable. The current system simply cannot cope with the huge pressure to keep up with demand. Waiting times will get longer. More young people will likely end up in crisis. Staff already working above and beyond their call of duty will be stretched even more thinly.

We can’t call this a crisis anymore. This is a mental health emergency. And the Government need to take radical action.

Every young person should be able to get the support they need, when they need it, no matter what. We won’t give up on making this happen.

09/11/2023

The difference therapy can make! Love this ❤️

10/10/2023

Today, on Mental Health Awareness day, (a subject so close to my heart), this post today really spoke to me. Your mental health impacts significantly on your physical health so they aren’t actually equal!

Here for anyone in need, because talking helps more than anyone realises.

Sending love and prayers for good mental health to be as understood as our physical health. 🙏

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=865558364932894&id=100044362152366

RIGHT AT THE TOP

It bothers me when people say mental health is just as important as physical health because no, it is not. It’s more important. Your brain, your mind, your computer, runs the entire show. Quite literally nothing, nothing, in your body works without your mind. If it is not constantly maintained, understood and managed it will bring everything to its knees. Everything. I’m pleased the world is finally waking up to the importance of mental health but let’s prioritise it properly, finally. Right at the top. Where it belongs.

Donna Ashworth
From ‘Wild Hope’ 🩶

Art by the amazing The Art of Jennifer Yoswa

Today is World Mental Health Day, and just as we don’t have a World Body Health Day - one day, we won’t need a day! Make your mind, your computer, a priority every day and watch your world thrive.

04/10/2023

So true ❤️

30/08/2023

There are days when everything we work hard for, seems worthwhile! Preparing tonight for a couple of weeks off after a busy year of helping clients (of all ages) and this wonderful card landed on my door mat today! I shed a tear reading it and messaged the 19 year old male client who sent it to me and thanked him. I said I wished I could share his words anonymously to help other young people seek help if they are struggling. He gave me permission to share it as he said it would have helped him to read something written by another young person in a similar situation to him. I love the Solution Focused Approach so much. And this is why! 🙏

Off for some R&R for a little while now! ❤️

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23/07/2023

Focusing on the exceptions with clients is key. No problem exists all of the time. Inviting the client to explore those exceptions is so exciting for co-creating positive change. Our Solution Focused assumption is always that our clients are the experts in their own lives. We aim to help clients identify what works and to build on that, and to pattern break what isn’t working. ❤️

16/05/2023

More than ever this year, I wish our exam takers so much love and luck ahead of this GCSE and A Level exam season.

Let’s not forget that our Year 13’s did not have the opportunity to take their GCSEs (such an important rite of passage) and that our Year 11s equally had their education significantly disrupted during the Pandemic. In fact, all of our children were significantly affected by the disruption to their education and social and emotional development during the Pandemic. The impact continues right now for them all.

They are all incredible and need to be reminded of their amazing resilience throughout this unprecedented time in history. We celebrate their success at dealing with this time and wish them every success in the forthcoming exam season, but these beautiful words by the writer, Donna Ashworth, are still so poignant.

To the Exam Takers

To the students who feel their future starts here, well it does.

But perhaps not in the way you think.
You see, you are very special people.

Teenagers who lived through the strangest historic time period in a century. And your success, your bright career...
will be born not of your result in a test,
but in the way you handle the tough times.

Your resilience.
And let me tell you,
resilience is not appearing to have handled things well.

It’s healing.

No one gets through unscathed, no matter how they seem to. So, do your best, but keep close in your pocket,
that you are already quite something.

Continue your journey of adapting, of coping, of evolving to be the first to face a new world.

Because you are. And you have.And you will. And you have plenty to offer the future.

And plenty of time to see that.

Donna Ashworth

01/01/2023

Happy New Year!!! Expect more solutions!!! ❤️

24/12/2022

So true!!! ⛄️

Credit: Jangandfox

22/12/2022

Wishing all my wonderful clients - past, present and future - a really happy Christmas and a truly solution focused and happy New Year. Please remember that even the tiniest change brings about even bigger change. And it’s so incredibly powerful ❤️

Solutions Inside is now closed for Christmas but I will be responding to any new enquiries from 3rd January.

Looking forward to being here for as many people as possible in the New Year. Thank you to the great many people who have recommended me this year. Can’t believe it. I am truly beyond grateful.

Sending love and hope

Susie ❤️