Kate Moxley Wellness For All

21/05/2025

Do you like my colleagues hoody? 💗

We created them to wear in our office and local village to let people in our community know that we are proud Mental Health First Aiders and nobody should be one on conversation away from the support they need.

What we came to realise quite quickly, is that not everyone thought wearing these was good idea!

What do you think? 💭

Whilst many might think mental health is widely spoken about, it is still misunderstood and holds a lot of stigma.

🔆 Our June Mental Health First Aider course is coming up and we have a a few remaining places available.

More info

https://wellnessforall.org.uk/event/mhfaider-june-2025/

22/04/2025

Three years ago today I did a thing 💗

These pics of my book A Guide to Mental Health for Early Years Educators are from my Facebook memories ✨

Plus the latest review ⭐️

“Highly valuable book” 💛

“This is a highly enjoyable and helpful book written with a huge heart. I’m no longer working in this sector but I still find books about children, mental& emotional well-being for carers and children alike very interesting. I have a mental health condition and I felt seen on these pages in a way I wish I had been seen and felt safe to be all of me in such settings.”

21/04/2025

The love we receive and the love we give back 🧵🪡❤️✨

Life is a patchwork of moments stitched together with the love we receive and the love we give back. 🧵💛🌷🌿 ! ☀️

17/04/2025

Trans people have always existed and they always will.

Yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling can’t stop that, but it will take us all backwards and create many more barriers for marginalised people to overcome in an already inequitable society.

I wanted to share this beautifully written, much-needed, must-read book by Fifi Benham. .earlyyears leads us into a nuanced conversation on wellbeing and gender inclusivity in the early years, and chapter after chapter skillfully supports us to discover why this topic is so necessary and important.

Truly, this is a must-read for all those working with children and families, and it’s a brilliant addition to the Little Minds Matter collection of books.

It must feel like the world is a scary, overwhelming and unsafe place right now for many people from the LGBTQIA+ community. We must always fight to protect human rights, dignity and respect for all people.

Love and solidarity to the trans community today and always. Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

02/04/2025

The maths isn’t mathing. The sums don’t add up. 300 *new nurseries have magically appeared like fairy dust.

The Government can pluck all the numbers they like out of the air, but our three-year-old babies deserve better than a school-led provision pretending they can match what early years educators offer in time for this September.

Furthermore, the factually incorrect insinuation that “educational success” (horrible phrase - not mine) is better in a school-led provision rather than the care and education offered through nursery, nanny or childminder is defamatory.

Call me old fashioned but I always opt for health and happiness over pushing exams on 4-year-olds.

Make no mistake this is a business model meant to top up the failing budgets that many schools are being forced to struggle with and it’s a way to make money for THEM rather than fund OUR early years sector properly.

The truth is, it is always the staff that make the difference. Some of the best early years educators I have ever worked with didn’t hold degrees yet their gift with babies and children was unmistakable and cannot be taught.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a qualified teacher if you don’t have early childhood experience and developmental knowledge. Many teachers working in schools right now have never completed early years specific training in their degree. They should not be made responsible for children in the most critical stage of their life.

There are multiple overlapping issues here but I hope parents of young children recognise that this *new model of “funded childcare” is not properly funded or thoughtout and it may put your chosen nursery or childminder out of business.

I say all of this with first hand experience of school led early years provision, I know when done well with trusted, suitable, experienced and responsible early years educators it can offer safe and nurturing high-quality care but it doesn’t happen overnight! Shame on you Keir Starmar and all those involved.

20/03/2025

Last week was wonderful 💚

It’s been a while since I have had the pleasure of delivering this MHFAider course because I have been suffering from a pr*****ed disc with nerve impingement! 🙃 but there is nothing like the start of Spring and the possibility of a new season 🌱

🌞So it was so lovely to see friendly faces and meet new people last week. In a world that seems fuelled with negativity and stigmatising attitudes toward mental health, mental illness, differences and neurodiversity it was a reminder that not everyone thinks that way.

We had a great group of people who came together to complete their Mental Health First Aid training. There was so much hope in the room of the difference it would make for them personally, in their work and community. Thank you to everyone who took part.

As Sir Desmond Tutu famously said,

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”

💗🌎✌🏼

05/01/2025

I know I won’t be the only one who had a difficult time during the holidays.

I know other people have it worse than me. I know that I have a lot of things to feel grateful for but that doesn’t make losing my dog, my baby boy Buddy so suddenly any easier. 💔

When you’ve been having an ongoing difficult time it makes it especially harder to share with others, dig deep, keep going and pretend everything is okay.

So I just wanted to say to anyone else who is experiencing grief, pain, sadness, loneliness, poor health or anything else that hurts, you’re not alone.

I’m reminding myself and anyone else who might need it that we can still do brilliant things, but we may have to go slower, make adjustments or take extra care.

There are so many people going through silent battles, ready to hide behind a mask, preparing for a return to work or school tomorrow to show up as the person others expect to see.

The truth is we never know what is going on for someone, the only way to truly know what someone is going through, is to ask. We can’t take each other’s pain away, but we can take notice and listen.

Let’s look out for each other, we feel brighter, better and safer when we are connected.

❤️

05/12/2024

Exhausted. Overwhelmed. Feel like you’re letting people down?

These are some of the things Early Years Managers have been repeatedly saying to me. The reality is we won’t haven’t been trained with the mental health literacy that is needed in today’s world.

EYM aren’t letting anyone down (except maybe themselves) but only because nobody taught us any different. While I’m at it, I’m just so fed up of hearing people being told to be more resilient!

From what I can see, our EY workforce is being exhausted by their resilience, their kindness and compassion is being taken advantage of and their empathy is being relentlessly drained away. Many have nothing left for their own families, lives, hobbies and interests.

If you work in early years and have any line manager responsibility and resonate with anything I’m saying then this training is for you. 💗

✨Join our caring and sharing wellbeing network of EYLM and let’s put YOUR wellbeing at the heart of this professional development.

Our session starting in Jan 2025 will cover the following topics:

-An intersectional approach to wellbeing
-Being me, being well, identity and wellbeing
-Collective caring in our community
-Compassion resilience-Professional self-care
-The Three P’s of wellbeing



Link in my bio to book via the events page on my website 💌

https://wellnessforall.org.uk/event/early-years-line-manager-training/

03/12/2024

Nothing like a Christmas crafternoon with your bestie.

You can take the girl out of a nursery but your can’t take the nursery nurse out of the girl 🥰 is that the saying?

I love this time of year collecting trinkets and treasures in the £1 shop and discovering miniature collectibles! 🎄✨

A very mindful and creative few hours. Swipe to see our house designs 🎀

Link in bio to my winter wellbeing newsletter that went out today 💌

❤️ What do you do to relax and unwind?

28/11/2024

❤️ Hi.

I’m still here, working, learning and growing.

I have just been kind of hibernating and having to take extra precious care of my health, energy and wellbeing. So social media has not been something I have had much capacity for.

✨ This time of year can be full of joy, celebration and and anticipation, whilst equally full of pressure, overwhelm and busyness.

There is nothing more important than your health.

❤️Remind yourself that you don’t have to do it all
🪜Youre allowed to step away when you need to.
✋🏻It’s okay to set boundaries and say no.
☕️You deserve time for self-care, rest and stillness.
⏰Any small action counts and adds up to big actions.

03/11/2024

Yesterday is a day that will stay with me for a long, long time and there will be moments that stick with me for a lifetime.

Seeing Liz Pemberton’s name in lights outside the Everyman cinema in our home city of Birmingham was SUCH a moment! ✨

That felt like everything but being part of such a special day that brought together such thoughtful, deliberate, “urgent”, joyful, disruptive, brilliant thinkers and speakers left an imprint on my heart and gave me hope for the future.

Liz’s vision for building anti-racist foundations in the early years is joyful, compassionate and thoughtful. It’s a vivid and visceral animation produced by Shemmy with by

📲We must ALL watch it. Rewatch. Then watch again. Send to friends. Watch it together. Tag a work colleague. Have a viewing party at your next staff meeting. Email your LA. CC in your network. Add to your newsletter. Share it with your community FOR your community to build a culture of anti-racism in your early years provision. 💡

I am still thinking about yesterday & know I will be reflecting for some time to come. ❤️

Wardah Farah. Dr Stella Louis. Hannah Betteridge. Kerry Murphy.

View on YouTube here:

https://youtu.be/UMHY5AKkajg?si=YNN4z2OOsv66vcKK

View Liz’s IG here https://www.instagram.com/reel/DB4OKsfIne4/?igsh=MTBtdzE2cnFvaWVzbQ==


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25/10/2024

This made me smile!

It is so lovely to see other people share their glimmers 💫 I thought I’d share a pic I took today when working in London with the Monkey Puzzle Orient Close team. We went for a walk at lunch and a glimmer found us!

Pic in the comment 🫶💚✨📸

Coffee ✅
Zoom ready ✅
Notepad and pen ✅

This morning our Nursery Manager started her training with katemoxleywellnessforall to help further the support that can be offered to our staffing team, families and children at Banana Moon Baddesley Ensor.

We are passionate about creating and fostering a supportive, nurturing and comfortable space where everyone can feel valued and respected 💚

One thing Jo learned this morning was about something called ‘Glimmers’ ✨ What is a glimmer you may ask? Well, have you ever saw a feather and smiled, a robin and felt safe or a heart shaped water mark that made you feel joy? These are glimmers. A micro-moment of safety or joy 🥹 What ‘glimmer’ do you look out for or comes to your mind?