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When your life story impacts your mental health, find creative solutions. Amy Mackay: Dramatherapist, mentor & facilitator. Group & individual sessions.

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Dramatherapists - help us grow our professional body

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You are invited to BADths Talking Circle next week https://t.co/eVVW6TlzRR

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@badthofficial For children I love Nathan Meets His Monsters. It is a beautiful book for working with worries or anxiety https://t.co/7TgIm2h5zG…

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For working with children I love Nathan Meets His Monsters. It is a beautiful book to explore worries and anxiety. https://t.co/xBncd4z3Iu

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@AnitaBellows12 @Glennademeter There are times when we treat illness despite side effects. But then managing those side effects is part of the treatment plan. So if the gp signs off work, why shouldn't managing the side effects or reviewing if that treatment is still an overall good be part of treatment.

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@AnitaBellows12 @Glennademeter I disagree. If a doctor agrees to sign a patient off work, that may be good short term but the long term impact on their health is an overall negative. There are people who need to be signed off and also people whose health will further spiral without contact/ routine/purpose.

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It’s time to talk! 🫵🗣️

2 in 3 football fans have struggled with their mental health. So we've teamed up with @VinnieJones65, @ChelseaFC and @samaritans to encourage fans to #TalkMoreThanFootball

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@SuJacko Improvisation is a dance between structure and letting go of structure. Too much of either is not in ballance

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@womenoffaith No it isn't. That is such a spiritually abusive thing to say. "For everything there is a season:
a time to plant, & a time to harvest
a time to break down, & a time to build up;
a time to weep, & a time to laugh"

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@JennyKirkwood20 @The_HCPC @badthopen @baat_org @musictherapyuk And that I find highly unacceptable. Just as referring to all the UK as England is not acceptable. Include the S or separate them out. Very poor show from our professional body if they don't

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@JennyKirkwood20 @The_HCPC @badthopen @baat_org @musictherapyuk I see this like I see the UK. We are one country - UK. We are also four counties-England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales.

I am a dramatherapist. I am also a creative arts therapists. I have more shared with my BAMT / BAAT colleagues than I have which separates us.

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@MichaelTakeMP "The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants." - Socrates

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@suicideresearch @MQmentalhealth The more adverse childhood experiences you have (trauma / neglect / abuse / blocked parenting) the more likely you are to experience every physical illness - asthma, cancer, dementia, heart disease...
So also no physical health without mental health?

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I closed with some regulated breathing, in for 4, hold for 4, out for 6, hold for 2. Did you know, when you breath out longer than you breath in you calm your body.

#ahps #dramatherapy #dramatherapist #creativetherapy #creativetherapist 6/6

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Just spoke about dramatherapy at the "Professional Forum No.6 AHPs in Mental Health" event organised by Joanne Tyler. These were my slides.
I spoke about people being full of stories and shared a couple of stories about me. 1/6

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I talked about how to represent thoughts & feelings, how to locate those in the body "butterflies in tummy" "weight on my shoulders". Be curious about them. I use an empty chair to externalise internal arguments "shall I go out or netflix and chill" 5/6

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Break the cycle of violence and build strong bonds with your children. Check out our latest blog on avoidant attachment styles. #Childtoparentviolence #Siblingviolence #Teenviolence #Teenageviolence #Hiddensideofdomesticabuse #Dramatherapist
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