Holding Hearts Therapeutic Services CIC

13/10/2025

We need your help please for our fundraiser this Saturday. Tombola prizes would be so much appreciated, smellies, chocolate, bottles , unwanted small gifts would be fabulous. Drop off at Blyth Enterprise Centre . Thanks so much 🙏🏻

13/10/2025

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06/10/2025

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🎉It's Kinship Care Week, a national week of awareness, recognition, and celebration of kinship families across England and Wales.

Kinship carers are grandparents, aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters, other relatives or friends, who step in to raise children who cannot live at home.

We want everyone to understand who and what a kinship carer is – and to celebrate the wonderful contributions that they are making for children around the world.

This year we are also highlighting landmark changes in new legislation which should make it easier for kinship families to get the support they need.

Check out Kinship Care Week 2025!
🔗https://frg.org.uk/policy-and-campaigns/kinship-care/kinship-care-week/kinship-care-week-2025/

06/10/2025

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Attention seeking? No, it’s Nurture Harvesting.

I’m often told by parents, social workers or teachers that a child is attention seeking. However when we are reparenting children who have suffered trauma, we must remember that they have most certainly missed out on a lot of early nurture.

This means they are driven to seek the nurture wherever they can. It might be annoying to have constant demands for reassurance, or a child claiming to be ill when they aren’t, but what they’re really saying is, ‘my heart hurts’.

We need to respond to nurture harvesting with warmth and empathy. We might say,
‘I think you are worried I’d forgotten about you’, or
‘I wonder if you were feeling a bit sad when you were asking me those things’?

In this way, we give little pieces of nurture to the child and help them to build back their own heart.

29/09/2025

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Our emotional wellbeing plays a huge role in our heart health. Stress, anxiety, and unresolved emotions can affect not just our mind, but also our body. For children, these feelings can sometimes show up as big behaviours or physical symptoms like tummy aches or a racing heart.

Through Play Therapy, children are given a safe space to explore and express their feelings, helping to lower stress and build emotional resilience – which in turn supports their overall wellbeing, including their heart health. 🌈✨

Today, take a moment to:
💖 Pause and breathe deeply
💬 Talk about your feelings – no matter your age
🏃‍♀️ Move your body, even just a little
🥗 Nourish yourself with kindness and care

A healthy heart isn’t just about physical fitness – it’s about emotional balance too. 💕

11/09/2025

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It's natural to want to protect a child from pain, especially when someone has died by su***de. You might be tempted to tell them the death was an accident but, from our experience, it's better to try and be open and honest from the start.

Why?
❤️ It protects them - knowing the facts can help them to be self-assured and ignore rumours they may hear
❤️ It helps them not to blame themselves or make their own version of events
❤️ It strengthens trust between you and builds a stronger relationship
❤️ It helps you too

Read more on our website, link in comments.

26/08/2025

Play Therapists Debbie and Nicola introduced Rufus to Ozzy today on International Dog Day . Ozzy is only 15 weeks old and was super confident meeting Rufus who is his great great uncle! Maybe Ozzy will eventually like to help Nicola at work? Who knows but for now he’s a much loved family member 💚

10/08/2025

Jade and Debbie have had a very playful day! A fabulous boat trip , seals and birds then landed at high tide at Lindisfarne while it was cut off from the mainland. Nothing at all to do but absorb the wild beauty and make friends with the birds and resident dogs . Fabulous!

18/07/2025

Introducing Ozzy to the Holding Hearts team! He is first and foremost a gorgeous new family member for our Play Therapist Nicola but hopefully when he’s had a good year or so to be a puppy and do a lot of growing and learning, he may like to help Nicola with her work!

He’s also the great great nephew of Rufus , Debbie’s gorgeous boy who is a super helpful member of our team .

Just look how much growing he has to do!

16/07/2025

Sending huge congratulations to our lovely colleague and friend Nicola who graduated yesterday and is now a fully qualified Play Therapist! Nicola has worked so hard over the last few years, supporting many children for us along the way and we are super proud! 👩🏻‍🎓🎓🎉

15/06/2025

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Just wanted to share this ahead of this weekend, for everyone. I hope you have a beautiful one, and if you are just looking to make it through, sending you every ounce of love you need ###

04/06/2025

Fabulous self care opportunity for parents and carers of adopted, looked after or trauma experienced children 💚