youtu.be/OQOK-LDm-JA?si… Brilliant conversation between Darren McGarvey 𝕁𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕤 𝔻𝕠𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕥𝕪 💜 Suzanne Zeedyk. James speaks about the mind being a "bad neighbourhood"&we cannot navigate this on our own.Suzanne speaks about mobile attachment re-babies biology.🧠🌱 #trauma #attachment

I remain confused about the higher expectations of children & young people than of adults. I've led change with a group of adults, it comes with a range of feelings & expectations, expressed through behaviours. But children are often expected to adjust & suppress their feelings.

At #CloseCommunity I was speaking with a couple of ppl abt respecting children when they don't want to engage with mindfulness sessions. A few years ago I had a P4 who chose to read a book instead of taking part. He said he wasn't interested. Look what happened..choice matters

✨ We still have tickets left for our Introduction to Framing Care and Care Experience – exploring eight tested recommendations that can be used to improve the lives of people with care experience now & in the future. 🕑 Tue 03 Sept – 1400 to 1600 🔗 tinyurl.com/2ntwrcy5

Do not hurt yourself by trying to get those without ears to hear you!

Tough on crime and its causes has never been a success. We are really just tough on criminals, which is why we don’t make progress. The day we seek to stop punishing the wounded, and seek to heal their wounds is the day we make progress. It takes what it takes #SmartJustice

“Recovery is the most difficult [thing] I’ve ever done in my life — and I can’t recommend it enough.” Same my friend, same! Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle I began journaling for my #TraumaRecovery on 4.17.23. Here are my journals! Every scrappy, useful skill that helps, helps! Juniper approves. 🩵

“What I found was that the most violent among them, had been subjected to a level of child abuse that was beyond the scale of anything I had even thought.” James Gilligan Interview: Working with Violent Offenders in Prison Settings (psychotherapy.net)

'Had this been a private development on Bayswater Road... I'm sure they'd have been put in the Savoy or the Hilton within a few hours of the fire.' Jeremy Corbyn says the Grenfell disaster was 'contempt for the poorest, most vulnerable people' in London.

No study, literature, or "expert" makes your lived experience invalid.

"anger … can toxify our motivations if anger is all that’s driving us. That’s why I think it helps often for us to trace our anger back to grief, as Father Richard often says, and then to trace our grief to love." email.cac.org/t/d-e-ekretd-t…

The best thing you could do for your brain is exercising the body:

Avoiding your triggers isn't healing. Healing happens when you're triggered and you're able to move through the pain, the pattern, and the story, and walk your way to a different ending. - Vienna Pharaon

.Third Force News September Magazine is out & includes our feature for #WorldSuicidePreventionDay 'Peer support: a harbour in a storm' We're changing the narrative. Peer support is not an optional extra but an essential part of our response to suicide. tfn.scot/magazine/septe…

Leaving the funeral of a friend today, my friend Suzzanne remarked, “it was 25yrs ago we went to the first funeral of a friend lost to drugs, it happens so often now!” I walked in silence for a bit, contemplating the enormity of the grief and loss among our friends!

A reminder to Scotland, of the importance of continuing on the journey to #KeepThePromise by 2030 🤞

We're looking forward to being at Scottish Parliament today! SallyAnn Kelly 🧡, Martin Canavan 🧡 & Govan Law Centre will be there talking to MSPs about how public debt is trapping families in poverty in Scotland and what must be done to help. Read our briefing paper 👇aberlour.org.uk/publications/c…