Blog/Updates

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Blog/Updates

A Volunteers View – Staying at Home!

by Beth Ford | 15, Apr 2020

We asked our volunteers if anyone wished to write a blog whist coping with the social isolation and staying at home. One of volunteers has written this blog for us, big thank you for this and happy reading! How to cope . . . How I cope with the lock down: is to put...

Mindfulness

by Beth Ford | 30, Mar 2020

Firstly what is mindfulness? “Mindfulness is the quality of being present and fully engaged with whatever we’re doing at the moment — free from distraction or judgment, and aware of our thoughts and feelings without getting caught up in them” Definition sourced from:...

Boredom

by Beth Ford | 25, Mar 2020

‘Boredom’ what a horrible sounding word, it has the word ‘Bore’ at the start, sounds like dentistry which isn’t good. At the current moment lots of us are self-isolating, social distancing and a whole other matter of temporary life changes. Boredom will and can set in...

Coronavirus Update – SSNMH

by Beth Ford | 17, Mar 2020

Just to make everyone aware, for the next few weeks we will be conducting our toolbox appointments by either a phone call or video call, this is to protect our staff and to protect our service users. We want to keep everyone well and safe.. the phone will still be...

World Bipolar Day – 30th March 2020

by Beth Ford | 17, Mar 2020

(this is a personal blog) I am spontaneous, excitable, obsessive, angry, happy, lost, empty, intense... That’s me, that’s my Bipolar...however isn’t this just the emotions that makes us human beings? Well yes that is true, however with Bipolar disorder you find...