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Psychology for Wellbeing, Oxted (2025)

08/03/2023

💜 Last year, as a family, we had a bit of a blow. My gorgeous mum was diagnosed with cancer for the second time.

💜 We had a year of hospital visits and treatment and treatment which she dealt with like a hero!

💜 The first picture in this set shows her straight after surgery when she had the lump removed. The second is us celebrating being told she was cancer free!!! 🎉🎉🎉

💜 So this , I’m celebrating the incredibly loving, strong, funny, playful, intelligent woman who raised me. She’s my hero. 💜💜💜

01/03/2023

💜 So what are these uncertain jazz hands all about?!

💜 Last year, for Mental Health Awarness Week, Jennifer and Nikki from Bridge the Gap Child Mental Health C.I.C had a chat with me about all things mental health.

💜 As always, we had so much to chat about and lots of interesting questions from viewers so our 30 minute conversation became an hour!!!

💜 We covered a lot of ground and there's some info here about EHCP's, anxiety, managing relationships with schools and of course supporting children' mental health (top tips are at 40 mins)

💜 If anyone has any question about any of the content, do drop me a line through my page here or on Instagram.

💜 There are lots of wonderful free resources on the Bridge the Gap Child Mental Health C.I.C website and they are contactable through there too.

💜 Please feel free to share this with anyone who may find it helpful.

💜 If you’re finding us for the first time today, welcome! Have a little listen with a cuppa. We’re so pleased you’re here. 💜

01/03/2023

💜 So what are these unsure jazz hands all about?!!!

💜 Last year, for Mental Health Awareness Week, Jennifer and Nikki from BTG | Child Mental Health] had a chat with me about all things mental health.

💜 Click the link in my stories to watch the chat on Facebook LIVE.

💜 As always, we had so much to chat about and lots of interesting questions from viewers so our 30 minute conversation became an hour!!!

💜 We covered a lot of ground and there's some info here about EHCP's, anxiety, managing relationships with schools and of course supporting children' mental health (top tips are at 40 mins)

💜 If anyone has any questions, drop me a DM.

💜 There are also lots of wonderful resources on the BTG | Child Mental Health] website for free and they are contactable through there.

💜 Please feel free to share this with anyone who may find it helpful.

💜 To those who joined us today, thank you for your involvement. It was great to chat. We're so pleased you're here. 💜

25/02/2023

💜 If you’re in the South East, it’s going to be a BEAUTIFUL day tomorrow.

💜 I encourage you to step outside if you can. Time in nature is so grounding and on top of that, a bit of exercise helps to regulate our nervous systems and boosts our happy hormones.

💜 Time outside together allows us to have time for connection too! It’s a win win!!!

💜 Although, fair warning, it may leave you feeling like the second pic!!!

💜 Enjoy you lovely lot!

12/02/2023

💜 As draws to a close, we want to celebrate all of our wonderful connections! I hope this Sunday evening is allowing you time to connect with your loved ones! 💜💜💜

💜 We also want to take some time to reflect and remember that every day is a chance to support positive mental health for our children and young people.

💜 We hope you have found our posts useful and interesting this week. We will continue to offer you all sorts of resources and information about how to support the children and young people in your lives.

💜 For me, this photo sums up playfulness, fun and joy. All of which are central to supporting positive emotional wellbeing. (And yes! I am in the piccie! Can you guess which one?!!)

💜 Thank you for joining us this week. Here’s to all the exciting things ahead of us.

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11/02/2023

💜 One of the fabulous schools I was in this week had this beautiful display which I just had to share! (With permission of course!)

💜 This stunning emotion rainbow on the wall at the end of one of the corridors can be seen as the children move around the school and is near a small group or one to one area.

💜 Each of the different colours of the rainbow is filled with lots of different words for all sorts of feelings.

💜 This is a WONDERFUL resource as it offers up opportunities for conversation around different emotion words, helps to build feelings vocabulary and promotes the idea that no feelings are “bad” they are all just different parts of our emotion rainbow.

💜All of us experience emotions but recognising, understanding, and managing our emotions is one of the hardest things we learn to do as humans. We need to be taught explicitly about feelings, what our bodies do when we experience these feelings and what we can do to manage it. And we learn that through co-regulation with trusted others.

💜 As we move towards the end of , let me know how do you support your children with their learning about emotions? Do you have games, stories or watch tv shows about them? Do you have any fab posters or resources you have or use?

💜 If this is all new to you, we are in the process of building our resource bank to shard with you. In the meantime, our wonderful friends, have a WEALTH of incredible great resources for free on their website. Have a little look around and explore ways to explore emotions!

09/02/2023

💜We’re continuing to showcase ways to connect this week in support of and tonight’s offering is a special one.

💜 The image shows a gold ceramic bowl with some yummy chocolate mousse in it. But why does that demonstrate connection? Well, this bowl belonged to my amazing Aunty who sadly passed away in September and for me, it is a wonderful memory of her.

💜 Every Christmas she would make the most INCREDIBLE coffee mousse in this bowl and we would gobble it up and marvel at the fancy gold bowl. I jokingly made a comment one year about wanting said bowl and felt beyond moved when my gorgeous cousin presented it to me after she died.

💜 You see, to me, this isn’t just a bowl. It’s a connection to my Aunty. Every time I use it it conjures up memories of our family Christmases stuffing our faces with yummy pudding.

💜 It reminds me of me and my Aunty giggling at something silly and then not being able to stop laughing at each other laughing! It connects me to her in so, so many ways. And it will continue to do so. 💜

💜 So my suggestion for tonight is for you to think about the different ways you connect with the people in your life.

💜 Does a place, thing or smell connect you to someone? Is the connection something tangible or something you think of or feel?

💜 Objects or photographs can bring up lots of memories that can bring a smile or offer a connection. They can be so powerful, if very emotion-full at times.

💜 These connections can help us through difficult times like bereavements. We often try to shield children and young people from grief, in an attempt to protect them from pain. But it can be so helpful to welcome that grief, feel it and explore it. Noticing things that make us smile or those that make us sad. Talking about things that comfort us, or indeed things that feel difficult.

💜 If you wants some more ideas about supporting a child or young person through grief have lots of great information available. 💜

💜 I send you all love tonight and hope you can enjoy some connections. 💜

09/02/2023

💜 This just makes me so happy! Here’s a little something to make you smile today. 💜

08/02/2023

💜 We are half way through and we are continuing with our ideas to support you to find opportunities for connection.

💜 One of our favourite ways to connect is through sharing a story together. This isn’t about a child or young person reading or practicing their skills, it’s purely about having story time, enjoying the moment and being together.

💜 There are some WONDERFUL books out there that talk about connection. One of my favourites is “The Invisible String”, a beautiful story that talks about how love can connect us even if we are not together.

💜 Another favourite is “The Book With No Pictures”. A very fun and engaging story that, despite having no pictures (see what the authors did there?!) is full of fun and begs out for silly voices and general playfulness! It’s a total winner in my house!

💜 There’s lots of different ways you can have story time. Together on the bed, on the sofa, in the garden. There’s no set location. One lovely thing to try is building a story fort. And who doesn’t love a fort?!!! You don’t have to go and buy a fancy story teepee or get anything special. Just use what’s in your house!

💜 This image shows a snuggly story corner in our home. We made a fort with blankets and filled it with more soft blankets and cushions. A little lamp and our favourite books and we are good to go! It’s so easy to create something like this in any part of the house.

💜 Bear in mind that storytime isn’t just for little ones. There are no rules or age ranges with this one. Lots of teenagers will love it too. Afterall, who can resist a cosy little corner!

💜 And remember, the very nature of the cosy corner creates a warm, soft and welcoming space for anyone. It can be a great way of having a safe space at home where a child or young person can go to if they need some down time.

💜 Get involved and have storytime together. You might be surprised at how much fun, how calming and how connecting it can be. Lots of conversations can come out during story time and it might just be a chance for your child to offload their worries if they need to.

07/02/2023

💜 Continuing with the theme of “Let’s Connect…” for , today we’re thinking of more practical ways to connect.

💜 One simple way to do this is by going on a walk with your child. The repetitive action of taking steps on a walk helps to regulate our nervous systems and helps us to feel calmer.

💜 Getting into the great outdoors offers lots of moments for mindful activities or grounding activities (more on those later) and with the weather we’re having at the moment it gives us a good boost of vitamin D!

💜 If you’re out and about, you can find different ways to run off some steam or energy, jumping over logs or weaving in and out of trees! You can also go on a nature treasure hunt, looking out for different types of leaves or mini beasts or feathers. We found a woodpecker feather on our walk today!

💜 A walk gives us time away from screens (for grown ups AND children!) and gives our body some all important movement.

💜 But one of the best things about a walk is it allows you to talk one to one whilst walking side by side. Being side by side is much less confrontational than being face to face and you might be surprised at how much more your child might want to talk to you in this position.

💜 The intention is just to chat and have a good time. If some big feelings or thoughts come out during it, it gives you an opportunity to notice them, validate them and explore them if they want to.

💜 Have a go today whilst the sun is shining and see where your walk takes you, literally and emotionally.

💜 PS: Poochies who love walks are an optional extra! 🐶🐶💜💜

06/02/2023

💜 “Lets Connect” is the theme of Children’s Mental Health Week from and I love it! 💜

💜 Connection and relationships are vital for our social and emotional wellbeing and development and are at the centre of everything we do at Psychology For Wellbeing HQ.

💜 But how do we do we do that in practice?

💜 Playing a game is a really simple place to start! Spending time together and playing a game your child loves helps to build those all important connections. Any game you play will help!

💜 Funnily enough, in my games cupboard I have lots of games based around emotions. They are a great way of introducing emotions and feelings and exploring them in a gentle way.

💜 This picture shows a wonderful game I found some years ago that let’s you think about different emotions, build faces with magnetic features that represent those emotions and talk about times when you might have felt them. Sadly I don’t think it’s made any more but there’s lots of things you can create yourself that are similar.

💜 Think about using print outs of different emojis, make cards of different scenarios that have happened in the week, use cut outs from magazines to build different emotion faces or simply try taking turns to draw different faces! They don’t have to be works of art - actually the sillier the better!

💜 This is just about spending time together. The best thing about it all is that anything goes! Enjoy it and have fun. 💜

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