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Charity Life

Values in the workplace

I have always struggled with values In the workplace until I set up our charity. I think I struggled with...
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Mental Health

Mental Health Conversation Starters

Conversation starters or how we respond to someone is so crucial to how a person may continue a conversation with...
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Why I hate the phrase “Strong Women”

Strong Women  - what exactly does that mean?  Why is it so important to be classed as a strong women?...
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Soaps and the Counselling Room

For those that know me know I love my soaps - in particular Coronation Street and Emmerdale, but also partial...
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Charity Life

Covid, Communication and Challenges

As charities emerge from the aftermath from the height of covid, I know many charities have had to adapt how...
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Mental Health

Loosing Self

This picture was posted by one of my volunteers on our post natal Facebook page.  It immediately spoke to me...
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Mums

Nurturing Mums

I founded Motherwell as I felt being a mum was the most difficult job that I have ever had to...
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A safe space

This year as part of our charities manifestos actions I have included a safe space for women. In the counselling...
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Workplace Wellbeing

How supportive is your workplace?

I actually wrote the below for a brochure describing the FlourisHER hub that I am developing. As I was writing...
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Mental Health

Feeling overwhelmed

People often ask me how I manage to juggle three children and running a busy charity. There isn’t really an...
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Infant Loss

A Story of My Own – Infant Loss

Firstly, I want to explain that writing this is massively out my comfort zone, but I think it will help...
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 Is feminism another dirty word?

I recently wrote about Ambition being word that brings up negative thoughts especially when in relationship to women, from both...
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Charity Life

Being a charity leader and having to keep your mouth shut!

When I founded Motherwell Cheshire like any other founder I did it to address a gap that I identified within...
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Workplace Wellbeing

How supportive is your workplace?

I actually wrote the below for a brochure describing the FlourisHER hub that I am developing. As I was writing...
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Charity Life

The real shining stars are the volunteers

This is a long over due blog, long time being years in fact. However it seems right that I did...
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Charity Life

Black Lives Matters

For over a year now, I have wanted to explore what Motherwell Cheshire needed to do to help support the...
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Charity Life

Celebrating Women’s Services

What a great month March was focusing on Women's Services. It all started celebrating International Women s Day, at Crewe...
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