Sonya Goulding

Integrative Psychotherapist & ELI Parenting & Self-care Programmes: I'm passionate about supporting people to grow self-awareness, understanding and acceptance.

[Sonya Goulding @sonyagoulding]

Always so proud to be a part of the @ELI_Docklands @NCIRL team. Amazing to be shortlisted for the Time Higher Education awards #THEAwards

[National College of Ireland @NCIRL]

We're delighted to see our @ELI_Docklands team shortlisted in the first year Higher Education Institutes in Ireland were considered for #THEAwards 👏

[Conor @conornolan05]

The psychology team @NCIRL is recruiting! Permanent, full time position. Details available here:
https://t.co/VbRS5NYcNz
And check out the research streams/labs we have here:
https://t.co/x0cKLPYvUT

[Dr Deirdre Giblin @DeirdreGiblin1]

Embracing my inner lioness for a busy week ahead - good thing I’m a Leo! Thanks as always to Fran @IrishFitCoach for getting me moving 🏋️‍♀️🦁😊 @SharonFeerick @ElaineARoche 💪💪

[Sonya Goulding @sonyagoulding]

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[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 🙏

[Sonya Goulding @sonyagoulding]

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[Brazelton Centre UK @BrazeltonUK]

Start supporting #BondingBeforeBirth with the families in your care today!! Why not print out our free downloadable poster and put it up in your clinic, unit or setting for parents to read.
Download here: https://t.co/QPIXGXZWwv
#IMHAW2023

[Dr Lisa Cherry OBE @_LisaCherry]

Belonging is an antidote to #trauma yet the opposite of belonging gets located in language eg.

Hard to reach
Ex-offender
Homeless
Youth at risk
Youth violence
Case worker
Service user

Shifting the language away from problematising the individual is essential for system change

[Sonya Goulding @sonyagoulding]

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[Trauma Responsive Education @TraumaRespEd]

⬇️ This is why we are here.
“An education is and should be for every person who wants one…if someone can’t see straight because the world is falling in around them we need to raise them up to clearer skies”

[Prof James Davies 💭 @JDaviesPhD]

"Efforts to prevent depression [in children] might ultimately need to demand less of teachers and kids, and focus more on poverty, violence, homelessness, food insecurity & other structural problems that affect children’s mental health".
https://t.co/UGuQxVULU4

[Sonya Goulding @sonyagoulding]

Maternity system in Finland👌

[Early Learning Initiative @ELI_Docklands]

In conjunction with @WhatWorksIrl & @The_Wheel_IRL
the #HomeVisitingAllianceIrl invites you to their next online Sharing Knowledge Workshop, for home visiting staff.

Register your place here ⬇️ https://t.co/valKFNjmn2……

#changinglives #supportingfamilyirl

[Anna Freud @annafreuduk]

Teachers, our new pupil-facing animation and supporting teacher toolkit is designed to support young people to better understand feelings of anxiety. Download now: https://t.co/ldMzLsi0S6

[Anna Freud @annafreuduk]

As part of Anna Freud’s commitment to addressing the mental health needs of children & young people, today we also launch ‘Let’s talk about anxiety’, an animation & teacher toolkit aimed at students in secondary school. https://t.co/XQgxZY17Oo #Letstalkaboutanxiety

[Dr. Judith E Butler @Dr__Jude]

Exciting news! Our conference 'Conversations on Promising Practice: Envisioning a Trauma Sensitive City' is happening on June 9th at MTU Cork. Huge thanks to @TLU_MTU for the tremendous support. Ltd places for this superb FREE event. Book now: https://t.co/Hvf7lgga3j

[Sonya Goulding @sonyagoulding]

Yes, yes and yes @Theholisticpsyc

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Let's talk about why being a mother is a sacred role.

No role has a greater impact on the future of society:

[Sonya Goulding @sonyagoulding]

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[Amazing Physics @amazing_physics]

Clearest image ever taken of Venus.

[Sonya Goulding @sonyagoulding]

Excellent article on need for policy and planning to better support children to play outside without adult supervision & importance of it for their wellbeing https://t.co/rTGB1YADpN

[Sonya Goulding @sonyagoulding]

@_LisaCherry Thanks for sharing Lisa🙏

[Sonya Goulding @sonyagoulding]

@_LisaCherry Looking forward to reading it Lisa

[Sonya Goulding @sonyagoulding]

@DeirdreGiblin1 Beaming gorgeousness 😍

[MIND in MIND @MINDinMIND_iv]

Ruth Feldman, our next Live Legacy Interviewee, is transforming our understanding of human connection. 

One of Ruth’s first experiments involving 73 premature babies weighing just 1,270 grams (2.8lb) on average, has transformed neonatal care around the world. 🧵