Continuing with the suicide myths for #WSPD2022, here's myth #4 that suicide is caused by a single factor. This myth is still all too often perpetuated by some media reports, that reduce explanations of suicide to a single cause, which is wrong and dangerous #SuicideMyths

An insightful morning at the online conference by Government Events, Tackling Eating Disorders 2023:Providing Early Intervention and Wrap-Around Support Services. A great opportunity to hear lived experience of ED and hear how support in East Lothian compares to other areas in the UK

It’s #TimeToTalk Day on 2 February. It’s a chance for all of us to be more open about mental health – to talk, to listen, to change lives. We want everyone to make space in their day for a conversation about mental health on #TimeToTalk Day. How will you have your conversation?

Great night spent at Port Seton Centre with the youth group talking about exam stress, ways to cope with stress and how important a balance is of studying and activities which make us feel good!

🧠 Our Mental Health Youth Worker, Danni Spencer, is on hand in the library 8-4 for staff, pupils, informal chats, mental health information and to give out freebies - who doesn’t like a freebie?! Talking about mental health should be normalised and encouraged! #TimeToTalkDay 🫂

Celebrated the ending to our Seasons for Growth group with young people and their parents today in St. Gabriel's School Michael (He/They) Such an amazing group of young people and we feel so lucky to have worked through the programme with them 🌟 🍂❄️🌸☀️

We want to make mental health information accessible to all young people! So for #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek we have put up resources and helplines which anyone in PL can read

EASTER SCHOOL HOLIDAYS Dunbar & Haddington Football camp for Neurodivergent young people age 10 to 16 years 3rd to 6th April 2023 FREE places - REGISTER by emailing [email protected]

Continuing our teams professional development today through the #KeepingTraumaInMind training today with Education Scotland The first of four sessions ☺️🧠 Gemma Burns

Young people's #sexualhealth clinic at Tranent Medical Practice is open again! Young people 13-18 years old can get: - Free and confidential STI testing and treatment - Pregnancy testing - Emergency contraception - Contraception - A chat with staff #youngpeople

Are you curious how you can help calm an anxious child? It's important that you use the right words when connecting with a child so you don't make their fears worse. Renee Jain (gozenlove) has shared these six phrases to help you to support a child with their anxiety. ✨

Had a lovey time today celebrating care experienced young people and normalising conversations around our mental health. What a lovely mix of young people and professionals we had the opportunity to chat with today at PLHS 🤗! #carefest

April is #StressAwarenessMonth! While not all stress is bad, long-term stress can have harmful impacts on physical and mental health. Have a look at the resources we have gathered on Eastspace: lght.ly/429kb0 How do you manage your stress?

Total cost of all this equipment = £0 If you haven’t done already, get involved with LTA Primary Teacher Training (free course!) and choose £250 worth of tennis equipment 🎾🙌🙌

This #mentalhealthawarenessweek2023 theme is #anxiety. Here is a video that shows how to do progressive muscle relaxation - the children and young people we support with anxiety find this very helpful to reduce of anxious energy and relax youtu.be/1nZEdqcGVzo

My new permanent job as mummy started on 03.01.24 🥰 Baby Rory 🩵