Flo Therapy with Poppy Elizabeth

06/09/2023

This is something I often find myself talking about with clients, especially when it comes to anxiety and those relentless irrational thoughts. The more time and energy we give to them, the more likely they are to spiral and hurt us for longer.

Give those horrible irrational persistent thoughts less energy and they should stop expanding.

28/04/2023

What should therapy feel like?
The answer to this might be different for everyone, however there are some main points, feeling safe to explore your thoughts and feelings, non-judgemental, you feel listened too and for most those reflections continue throughout the time between sessions.

You might not feel truly relaxed in your first session as it can take time to create a trusting bond, but you should get a sense within yourself if this is achievable.

Confidential Counselling | Women’s Health | Perinatal Mental Health | Anxiety, Depression, Loss |

20/04/2023

If you:
- have undergone IVF in the last 18 months
- plan or hope to undergo IVF soon
- or have been advised you need it and don't currently have the means to do it

Please fill out this anonymous survey to help Tiny Seeds

Tiny Seeds is gathering data to help demonstrate and quantify the extent to which the cost of In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) and the high cost of living in Jersey, impacts on the ability to access the treatment by those who need it to help build their families. If you live in Jersey, or lived in Jerse...

08/03/2023

For those who don’t like reading captions, swipe through to read!

What do I take from International Women's Day?

For me, empowerment.

I know women don't always feel strong, feel like there's so much to continue
fighting against, so much pushing back on us.
But I believe women can do anything they want too, we are resilient and powerful,
we can do it all or have it all, if we want too.

Empowerment is something that has been a part of my own journey for the last
10 years - it was empowering to realise my own worth and leave an abusive
relationship - it was empowering to follow my own dreams to become a therapist and
all the hard work this took as a single parent - it was empowering to feel strong
enough to let another man into my life, my son's life and to build our own
family unit - it has been empowering to continue following my dream and having my
own private practice and I feel determined to continue making my dreams come
true in the future.

Being female is part of my empowerment, I've experienced people telling I can't do
things due to being female and I love pushing myself to prove that I can, not to
prove it to them because those people don't have a place in my life anymore, but to
show myself and to show my kids. I have two boys and I hope to show them that women
are powerful.

07/03/2023

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20/02/2023

Great informative post! 👏

Last week saw the release of the Jersey Health Profile 2022. It shares some interesting statistics regarding fertility, but it also raises a number of questions...

What does the Jersey Health Profile report for 2022 tell us?

It tells us that in 2021 in Jersey:

👶 There were 903 live births
👩‍💼 The average age of mothers at the time of those births was 33 (the UK average is 30)
👩‍👧 The ‘total fertility rate’, a figure which estimates the number of children a woman will have in her lifetime, was 1.3 (this is the equal 6th lowest in the world)

What else do we know?

👨‍⚕️ We know that in 2021 in Jersey, 400 unique patients were seen by the Assisted Reproduction Unit

Where are the gaps in the statistics?

🩼 We don’t know, from those 903 births, how many were a result of assisted conception. Nor do we know, how many of those 400 unique patients being seen by the Assisted Reproduction Unit, went on to fall pregnant or have a live birth (see the answers to a Freedom of Information Request we submitted in 2022: https://www9.gov.je/government/freedomofinformation/pages/foi.aspx?ReportID=5510)

Why is this important?

People living in Jersey are leaving it later in life to try and build their families (despite it being widely known that our fertility declines as we age) and they are having on average, less children in their lifetime. It is likely that this is down to a combination of factors, with the high cost of living and women progressing with their careers prior to wanting, or being in a financial position to start a family being notable. Our outdated funding system for fertility treatment should also not be ignored, meaning people are often waiting longer before accessing treatment, if at all. But, we need more data from the Government and relevant health departments to be in a position to be able to accurately analyse the true situation Jersey finds itself in when determining the impact of fertility struggles.

Fertility struggles might be invisible, but the repercussions on the individuals going through them certainly are not, and the statistic of 400+ unique cases accessing the Assisted Reproduction Unit in 2021 is not inconsequential. It is therefore our duty to better understand the impact this is having within society and to enable us to provide the necessary help and support going forward.

07/02/2023

Warning for those who don’t want to see any information on birth trauma.
My takeaways from Module One of Birth Trauma training! I will share my takeaways after each module.

31/01/2023

Because one load of training this month isn’t enough, I’ve also signed up for Birth Trauma Training - self-paced thankfully as next week Fertility Counsellor training will take top priority!

04/01/2023

Bit late to the game but Happy New Year!

I know there’s been lots of highlights reels and resolutions, goals and aspirations for the New Year. Seeing this can be really difficult for some, if all you did was survive and get to the end of 2022 then that’s an accomplishment in itself. We have lived with uncertainty for years now and if you have come into 2023 without a goal or a resolution then that’s perfectly okay.

I did think I should make more of an effort on social media but I know realistically that will be an added pressure that I just don’t need. Being responsible for my own little business and juggling a family can be hard enough so I’m going into this year focusing on what I can happily manage to do without added pressure.

Do something for yourself this year, focus on what is important to you and not on what’s expected!