@graciehou.bsky.social
RN, Health Visitor, Procrastinator Professional Development Officer for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health iHV Probably recovered from PND🌤️ Putting the “fun” in executive dysfunction since 1994
There are some excellent books on this list ❤️
13.06.2025 09:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So excited to be at the Maternal Mental Health Summit 2025 in London today - it’s energising to be surrounded by so many people passionate about perinatal mental health. I’ve already heard some excellent and thought-provoking presentations @ihealthvisiting.bsky.social
30.04.2025 10:06 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Image: Father holding baby boy, sitting on bed. Text: We're calling on the Government to invest in childhood
Illustration of a child on a mat playing with building blocks. Text: The Government must act now to prevent the next generation of young people being held back by mental health problems.
The Government must act now to turn around the recent rise in mental health problems among children and young people. By investing in evidence-based, cost-effective prevention strategies, it can ensure every child has the best chance of good mental health: tinyurl.com/4dxsn69k #InvestInChildhood
08.04.2025 08:51 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 3Excellent advice and compassionately written. I’m sure most of us could benefit from imagining our inner critic as a pathetic little gremlin!
06.04.2025 08:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today, OXPIP's founder Sue Gerhardt launches her new book "1001 days: How Our First Years Shape our Lifelong Health".
We're giving away one free copy chosen at random from the people who retweet one of our social media posts by 8th April.
Available to purchase from today.
Anyway, I’m going to eat my kindness soup and think about how I can pass on a bit of love.
13.02.2025 16:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I haven’t got PND this time round, I’m just sleep-deprived. But it’s got me thinking about how this is the stuff that can be a little glimmer of light in the darkness and loneliness of depression. A little glimpse of humanity & community. To feel seen when you feel invisible.
13.02.2025 16:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A picture of some frozen soup, biscuits and a note reading: hi, I was thinking of you after the school run and remembering how hard it can be, and what to do to help. Here’s some homemade soup (lentil and chorizo). I’m sorry it’s so random but I hope it’s a nice lunch/break for you.
A sleepless night with my 1yo and a hard morning with my demand sensitive 6yo resulted in me bursting into tears when I mum I didn’t know asked how I was. Anyway, at pickup today she handed me this and gave me a hug.
It didn’t cost her much but I felt so seen and nurtured.
All day every day an internal panic I had forgotten something.
My brain was busy, so busy just trying to remember.
So much so I was always forgetting to remember it all.
I was the top set student who hid it all.
Your emotional experiences in childhood...
- change your biology
- alter the neural pathways in your brain
- shift the setpoint of hormonal production
- shape what you perceive in others' expressions
You carry the lessons of childhood in your body.
Even though most of us don't recall the training.
