BairnsHooseRecovery

@children1st Practice lead for Bairnshoose. Committed to putting recovery at the centre of child protection, enabling children to flourish! 🥰All views my own

[BairnsHooseRecovery @BairnsHRecovery]

@PROMISEBarnahus What great news! @children1st are proud to be members of this amazing global network and fully committed to promoting Bairns’ Hoose (Scotlands Barnahus) for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The #promise in action for children who need access to child protection and justice process! #traumainformedjustice

[BairnsHooseRecovery @BairnsHRecovery]

@Connection1st Do a quick check of other car insurance providers then call your current insurers and ask them to match lowest quote- they will usually do this or come close- we do this every year and save loads. But insurers know many people don’t wont check, so they win! 👍

[BairnsHooseRecovery @BairnsHRecovery]

@margl43 @KatrineHildyard Scotland is fortunate to be able to learn from other countries in developing #bairnshoose as we strive to develop #traumainformed justice. Sharing the best of what works as well as pitfalls to avoid provides welcome guidance and great opportunity as we strive to scale up!

[BairnsHooseRecovery @BairnsHRecovery]

@margl43 I’m sure you were!! 🕺💃

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

THIS IS GOING VIRAL SO I WANTED TO SHARE IT HERE TOO:

A bit from my past:

My first job after getting my PhD was working as a therapist for people from low socioeconomic backgrounds.

Almost all of them were diagnosed with depression, GAD, bipolar, or BPD. Most were highly medicated— some to a point that still sticks with me years later.

As I got to know their background and lives 3 things were very clear:

1. A vast majority had been emotionally neglected, emotionally abused, or physically abused as children.

2. A vast majority had experienced domestic violence or were currently living in it.

3. Basic needs were never met. Life was an hour by hour struggle. Treatment was an attempt to allow them to get to work in most cases. To just continue to surviving.

It was the start of me questioning the field I had been trained in. One that diagnoses people with disorders without taking a look at the whole picture. It began my path of holistic understanding.

A person cannot be well when one unexpected bill will have them fall behind on rent. When they lay their head on a pillow and all they can think about is expenses piling up. When a bill at the grocery store is almost double what they paid last year when their income has stayed the same.

An entire family unit deeply struggles within survival mode. When a job is lost. When daycare needs to be paid, but so does the light bill— what do you choose? When parents can’t even think about the emotional needs of their children because they have to figure out where their next meal is going to come from.

In 1942, 10 years before the diagnostic manual of mental illness was released Maslow knew what was once just common sense: we have a hierarchy of needs.

At the bottom are basic needs food and shelter. Then safety (resources, security). Then belonging (connection, friendship, intimacy.) Without three things we *will* be sick, period.

I get pushback for questioning the status quo. And I’ll continue to do it. The status quo is keeping people sick. It denies their experience. And it says we should bandage people’s symptoms so they can return to the environment that made them sick.

May we wake up, heal ourselves, and build conscious communities to help each other.

Retweet if you feel this is true in your body 🙏

[BairnsHooseRecovery @BairnsHRecovery]

@KevinNeary12 Your story is inspiring, please keep sharing. You show us what’s possible and ‘the system’ what needs to change. Will some use your story for their gain more than to benefit your cause? Probably yes. But remember by being you & sharing you ARE leading transformational change!!

[BairnsHooseRecovery @BairnsHRecovery]

Couldn’t agree more Hans Christian Andersen- we all need hope (photo Generator hostel, Copenhagen, great place for family with teenagers!!)

[BairnsHooseRecovery @BairnsHRecovery]

@markballard27 @LNER @Eurostar No luck required as European rail travel just the best way to get around! Have an amazing holiday 🕶️☀️

[BairnsHooseRecovery @BairnsHRecovery]

@margl43 @andy_murray Completely riveting! Our family came to a complete standstill- at one point I had to remind myself to breath🤣 unbelievably inspiring 👏👏

[Gary Lineker @GaryLineker]

It shouldn’t be controversial. It shouldn’t need courage. It just shouldn’t.

[BairnsHooseRecovery @BairnsHRecovery]

@Connection1st Love our Skoda- great choice👍

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@margl43 Enjoy! You so deserve this!!

[BairnsHooseRecovery @BairnsHRecovery]

@WendyPMitchell Looking forward to gaining more of your insights in living well with dementia, I have no idea how you keep producing books at such speed, but the world is a richer place because you do 🙏🙏 your are amazing!!

[DrDr (😊)Wendy Mitchell @WendyPMitchell]

You’ll be fed up of me posting these throughout today….but did I mention my BOOK is out today 😂

[BairnsHooseRecovery @BairnsHRecovery]

@WendyPMitchell Thank you 🙏 Your insights into your world are so helpful, which I know is why you blog and share, to educate. I share your fear of the future and unknown in living with dementia at it progresses, but hope you find your spirits lift as we move into longer days in February!!

[BairnsHooseRecovery @BairnsHRecovery]

@WendyPMitchell Thank you for sharing Wendy, I hope you have an amazing, dry sunrise this morning to kick start your day 🌅

[BairnsHooseRecovery @BairnsHRecovery]

@betsydet I hope your son makes a speedy recovery and that you all recover from the shock - wishing you a healthy start to 2023 💙

[BairnsHooseRecovery @BairnsHRecovery]

Thank you for the music…and an experience that gives parents a fun night with teenagers!

[BairnsHooseRecovery @BairnsHRecovery]

@WendyPMitchell Thank you for sharing Wendy, your lovely blogs help me to understand dementia just that bit more 🙏🙏