Sarah Watts

It’s set up day! Looking forward to welcoming everyone to our Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Talking Therapies Annual Midsummer Conference in Stafford tomorrow

Day made yesterday by a beautiful gift. Never underestimate how much it means to others when you take the time to say thank you 😊

Hoping it all goes well Charlie and that it feels like home very soon.

Photo of a small painting on the paper of an empty teabag, featuring a row of blue-purple flowers in the snow, all on a light purple background

'February' by Ruby Silvious, visual artist and graphic designer, whose recent work includes experimenting on recycled and found materials, including tea-bags #womensart

Couldn’t have been more proud today as we welcomed Prof David Clark (National Talking Therapies team) and Anne Oyewole (NHS Head of Digital Innovation) to Staffordshire to discuss our winning Trailblazer Digital Innovation bid!

Benvenuto, Lewis!

Turn automatic news updates off. You don’t need it flashing on your phone. Your inbuilt threat response needs a rest.

Watercolour washes with black silhouettes of trees

A quiet morning doodling - so many beautiful trees and skies at this time of year …

People who know how to keep communicating and build bridges when there is conflict should be leaders. Jumping straight to ‘you’re/I’m all bad’ or ‘you’re/I’m perfect’ needs to be unpicked more often. We’re all good and bad at different times. The challenge is accepting that.

Remember the name #Ngumoha #LFC #YNWA

Know someone who’s dreading 2025? Please don’t wait for them to reach out. Instead ‘reach in’ to them. It may be hard to do, but also the most important conversation for both of you. Asking if they’ve seen the StayingSafe.net website is a gentle way to introduce a #SafetyPlan to help them stay safer

"Busyness" is an affliction for many of us. It often fulfils a deep need but means no time for things that really matter to us. We can make 2025 the year when, individually & collectively, we're less "busy". See: medtrics.org/why-do-we-al... by Dalia Oufi. Art: Liana Finck via adamgrant.bsky.social

I’ve been a bit quiet on here, mainly because I’ve been fortunate enough to spend most of December in #Australia

What an amazing adventure and met some wonderful people on the way.

Bit of a shock returning to UK temperatures today though! 🥶

Image of StayingSafe.net Safety Plan headings

Do you support anyone who is dreading Christmas?
It’s a difficult time of year for many. Safety Plans can equip people to know how to deal with their distress more safely
•Self-help strategies
•Making their situation safer (reducing access to means)
•Support incl crisis 24/7
See StayingSafe.net

New logo for the StayingSafe.net safety planning website. Image is of an open rainbow coloured umbrella next to the words ‘Staying Safe from suicidal thoughts’

📣 📣 NEW StayingSafe.net safety planning website
•Easy navigation
•Contemporary look
•New interactive Safety Plan
•Safety Plan headings in first person
•Enhanced ideas for 'Making my situation safer' and 'Things to distract me'
•Option to add timeframe for activities
•New logo
Please help to share 🙏🏼

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BCP New FirstView paper: Imagery-based cognitive therapy to reduce emotional dysregulation and mood instability in bipolar disorder: a case-series study

Full free text at www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Etching of the silhouette of a bird seen from below flying in tbe sky surrounded by tree tops

Welcome to WA on Bluesky as requested by you xx

'Breathing Space'
by Janis Goodman

Wishing a warm and dry evening to all the sports supporters who braved the late shift on the sidelines today, in the dark, cold, wind and wet.. 🏑

Image of the Staying Safe website Safety Plan which can be downloaded and printed

Safety Plans should be like fingerprints - bespoke and unique to each person:
•Not a one size fits all
•Coproduced with trust and compassion
•May look simple but include actions to safely navigate distress and suicidal thoughts
Don’t have one? StayingSafe.net can help you make your own #SafetyPlan

Shout out to the #barbers who spotted a frazzled mum, quietly switched the booming background music to jazz and handed me a fantastic cup of coffee for a 20 min time out while my son’s hair was cut today! #gratitude

Hi! Please add me if possible. Thanks.

My word of the day (and personal recommendation) is ‘snerdling’ (18th century): nestling cosily beneath the covers and holding off the day a little longer.

Morning.

Oh yes please - that sounds interesting.

Great to get our #leadership team together today to focus on leading with #compassion and how we strengthen our key #relationships and #communication at work.

Assisted Dying Bill 29 November will be a free vote.
Kim Leadbetter assures us that there will be the strictest safeguards , and refers to the Oregon Bill.
It won’t be immune to “progressive normalisation”.
I’m concerned that coercion, and its motives, remains difficult to prove.

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Morning Annie. Lovely to link up with you here too.

the milky way galaxy seen from earth. there are low mountains at the bottom of the photo with a slight golden glow above. the stars rise up at an angle from right to left. photo:- steve jurvetson ( by permission).

only when it's dark can you see the stars

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photo:- steve jurvetson (by permission)

When someone knows you need a little pick me up and it arrives through the post.. #tea #biscuits 💙

You too! I think we had a similar network on the other place but never properly chatted there.

Lovely weekend in Norfolk with some long walks under beautiful skies.