HumAnimaCIC

HumAnima CIC - providing counselling 🗣️👂and Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) 🐾 to improve mental health well-being in the West Midlands.

[HumAnimaCIC @HumAnimaCIC]

Flossie, 15.5yrs old - Best Therapy Dog ever, Best friend, Soulmate, Soul dog. Run free my baby girl, my little Pumpkin, Floss dog, Flo-Ellie Ella, Flosseroo. My life will never be the same again. (08.04.2007 - 22.08.2022) 🐾🐕🐶♥️💔 #RIPFlossie #animaltherapy #NewProfilePic

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

A couple of pale mauve phacelia in a field in Norfolk. If you play my little film to the end & let your brain immerse itself among the flowers, research shows it will help you recover from stress much more quickly today🌿🧠:

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

Today is your last chance to get 20% off my botanical cards and prints👇. They won't be in my Etsy shop again until the autumn. They make excellent presents that can dial down anxiety...🌿

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

A couple of cornflowers in a field near Wicken, Cambridgeshire and a little leafcutter bee gathering pollen for her babies from a cornflower in my garden. As ever my photos & videos are designed to dial down stress & lift your mood-a break from angst while you scroll 🌿:

[Kwik-Fit @Kwik_Fit]

Make the most of every summer evening thanks to @ContiUK ☀️🌸🌄

We're giving away a Bose speaker with a projector - a dream duo for this summer!

Simply enter by:
🌸Liking this post
🌸Comment what you would use this for

T&C's apply. Competition ends 30/06/2026.

[HumAnimaCIC @HumAnimaCIC]

@Kwik_Fit @ContiUK I'd use this to chill out with a friend to listen to some of my favourite 80's music & watch some old musicals!! Grease!!! 😀

[Sandi S @slsv56]

@silverpebble

[HumAnimaCIC @HumAnimaCIC]

@silverpebble Stunning!!!!

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

A couple of ox eye daisies near Ely. When we look at images of landscapes & plants we recover from stress 60% more quickly, so this is for your brain if you’re strung out rn 🌿:

[HumAnimaCIC @HumAnimaCIC]

@StorytimeMag @silverpebble

[Storytime Magazine @StorytimeMag]

COMPETITION TIME!
Win a Fabulous Creatures Book Bundle!
Get ready for sunshine, stories and lots of laughs!
Follow the instructions for a chance to WIN

1. FOLLOW @storytimemag
2. LIKE & SHARE
3. TAG friends
Closes at 11.59pm 31/5/26 UK only

T&C's: https://t.co/OiTwKMaw80

[Jim Moir @JamesMoir10]

I am very pleased to announce that my bug colour wheel has been accepted into this year’s Royal Academy summer exhibition. This is my sixth time. Have a look it opens on the 16th of June.
@royalacademy

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

Here’s a spot of (legal) poppy-based dopamine for you as there are…a few in the East of England just now:

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Eddie. He has been waving for over a decade and has gotten pretty good. Can even do it with both paws. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday

[HumAnimaCIC @HumAnimaCIC]

@currys @MiscHandMakes 😀

[Currys @currys]

We’re giving one lucky winner the chance to upgrade their setup with Logitech’s new Signature Comfort Plus Combo MK880, plus a webcam and headset 🔥

Simply follow @Currys, like this post & tag a friend in the replies

Comp closes 01/06
Full T&Cs: https://t.co/iXNfDOZC15

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Tumbleweed. She is an artist, and this is her art. Doesn't expect everyone to understand. 13/10

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Gracie. She has diabetes, pancreatitis, and glaucoma, all of which require costly care. As a result, she had zero adoption interest. Thanks to your support of our merch, @15outof10 was able to cover her $9,900 ongoing care. We're happy to share she's since been adopted ❤️‍🩹

[Nadia Whittome MP @NadiaWhittomeMP]

Disability Rights UK is conducting a survey on disabled people’s experience of Personal Independence Payment (PIP). If you want your experiences to inform research, policy discussions and recommendations on PIP, please fill out the survey in the link below.

Responses collected before 28th May will be part of a separate submission to the Timms Review.

https://t.co/1NTehK9lbn

[Mark Rees @reviewwales]

Today is the feast day of St Melangell, the patron saint of hares. 🐇⛪️
The daughter of an Irish king, she fled to Wales and founded a community of women in Powys.
According to legend she was gifted the land after saving a hare from a pack of dogs.
🎨 Jemima Jameson

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Finnish scientists trucked in real forest dirt and grass and laid it over the gravel at four daycare yards. They let the kids dig around in it for a month. The blood tests came back with changes the researchers hadn’t expected to see so fast or so clear.

The study ran at ten daycares in two Finnish cities with 75 kids aged three to five. Four of the yards got the forest treatment: about a tennis court worth of soil and grass laid over the gravel, plus planters and peat blocks the kids could dig and climb on. Three others stuck with their normal gravel yards. The last three were daycares where the kids were already visiting real forests every day.

After one month, the variety of bacteria living on the kids’ skin shot up, and the kind that helps train the skin’s immune defenses jumped the most. Their gut bacteria started to look like the gut bacteria of the forest-visiting kids. Their blood showed more of the immune cells whose job is to keep the body from freaking out at harmless stuff like pollen and peanuts, and overall inflammation dropped. The kids on the plain gravel yards showed none of this.

Childhood asthma in the US doubled between 1980 and 1995. Food allergies in kids jumped 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, then jumped another 50 percent between 2007 and 2021. And peanut allergies in one-year-olds tripled between 2001 and 2017.

The Finnish researchers think one of the reasons is simple: kids today don’t get dirty enough. 37 percent of American preschoolers now spend an hour or less outside on a normal weekday. Their immune systems are getting trained in environments stripped of the bacteria humans have always lived around.

Aki Sinkkonen, who led the study, put it in plain words: “It would be best if children could play in puddles and everyone could dig organic soil.” The Finnish government is now helping pay for daycares across the country to make the same changes.