Kate Moxley Wellness For All

07/10/2025

📣Creating psychological safety in early years settings is not just a “nice to have”, it’s urgent. It’s about standing against hate and division and building trust, respect, dignity and safety in our teams.

💚Making certain every educator feels supported, respected, and safe to bring their whole self to work. Not leaving anything to chance, cultivating equitable spaces where educators, children and families thrive.

06/10/2025

Early Years Wellbeing Week 2025, 6-12 October.
�💚 Inline with oWorld Mental Health Day – 10 October. Theme: Mental Health in Humanitarian Emergencies

🌍 Every Early Years Setting is the Heart of a Community
�In times of crisis or calm, early years settings are more than just places of learning – they are safe havens, community hubs, and the foundation for wellbeing.

👶🏽 Every Child Deserves to Feel Safe�In a world that can feel uncertain, the security and care provided in early years settings offer stability, love, and belonging.
👉 Creating psychologically spaces nurtures self-esteem, self-worth and emotional wellbeing.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Every Family Deserves to Be Supported�Families facing challenges—whether personal, social, or global—need a community that holds them up.
�👉 Early years teams are often the first to spot the signs and offer help.

👩🏾‍🏫 Every Educator Deserves to Be Valued�Educators carry the emotional load of many. Their wellbeing is essential for the wellbeing of the children they care for.
�👉 Let’s support, listen to, and care for the people who care for our youngest.

🧠 Mental Health is a Human Right – in Every Circumstance
�From local hardship to global crises, everyone—no matter their age or role—deserves access to mental health support and a sense of community.

💚 This Early Years Wellbeing Week...
�Let’s recommit to making our settings safe, inclusive, and emotionally safe spaces—for every child, every family, and every educator.

📣 Use your voice. Share your story. Support your community.
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02/10/2025

Early Years Wellbeing 2025 ✨

Now in its 8th year, Early Years Wellbeing Week is a national awareness campaign dedicated to shining a light on the mental health and wellbeing of everyone in the early years sector - from children and families to practitioners and educators.

Taking place from 6-12 October 2025, alongside World Mental Health Day (10 October), the week offers inspiration, resources, and practical ideas to support positive wellbeing in early years settings and beyond.

Together, we celebrate the vital role of early years professionals while encouraging open conversations about mental health and nurturing a culture of care.

Join us in making wellbeing a priority - for our youngest children, for the workforce, and for the future.



https://earlyyearswellbeingweek.co.uk

26/09/2025

I'm equally as proud to have worked with Paint Pots Nurseries Southampton Hampshire again.💚

16/09/2025

We must be clear: as early years professionals, we have a duty of care to speak out about safeguarding and racism.

The protests this weekend showed racism in full view — not unity, but division. The impact is dangerous. Children are growing up with fear and stress, while staff work in communities that too often silence, ignore, or erase.

Racism is not just a social issue. It’s a mental health crisis.

Caring for children means caring for those who stand beside them. We cannot ask educators and carers to carry this burden without holding them in return.

Caregivers’ and children’s experiences of racism are interlinked. Stress from racism affects wellbeing, attachment, and emotional responsiveness — leading to anxiety, low self-worth, and mistrust.

Our early years spaces must be anti-racist, trauma-informed, and safe for everyone.

With intention, we can create spaces of joy, love, connection, belonging, and safety — shaping how children, families, and staff see themselves and their place in our communities.

29/07/2025

We recently had the pleasure of welcoming Kate Moxley back to Shooting Stars again to deliver a truly bespoke and powerful training session for our amazing Early Years Managers. Her insights into influential leadership, wellbeing strategies, and the ethos that prevention is better than cure left a lasting impact on us all.
Kate reminded us that creating a healthy, happy, and safe workplace isn’t a one-time goal—it’s a daily practice rooted in clarity, compassion, and strong boundaries.
The conversations sparked during this session are already rippling through our settings—strengthening our teams and enriching the care we provide to every child and family.

16/06/2025

21/05/2025

Do you like my colleagues hoody? 💗

We created them to wear in our office and local village to let people in our community know that we are proud Mental Health First Aiders and nobody should be one on conversation away from the support they need.

What we came to realise quite quickly, is that not everyone thought wearing these was good idea!

What do you think? 💭

Whilst many might think mental health is widely spoken about, it is still misunderstood and holds a lot of stigma.

🔆 Our June Mental Health First Aider course is coming up and we have a a few remaining places available.

More info

https://wellnessforall.org.uk/event/mhfaider-june-2025/

22/04/2025

Three years ago today I did a thing 💗

These pics of my book A Guide to Mental Health for Early Years Educators are from my Facebook memories ✨

Plus the latest review ⭐️

“Highly valuable book” 💛

“This is a highly enjoyable and helpful book written with a huge heart. I’m no longer working in this sector but I still find books about children, mental& emotional well-being for carers and children alike very interesting. I have a mental health condition and I felt seen on these pages in a way I wish I had been seen and felt safe to be all of me in such settings.”

17/04/2025

Trans people have always existed and they always will.

Yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling can’t stop that, but it will take us all backwards and create many more barriers for marginalised people to overcome in an already inequitable society.

I wanted to share this beautifully written, much-needed, must-read book by Fifi Benham. .earlyyears leads us into a nuanced conversation on wellbeing and gender inclusivity in the early years, and chapter after chapter skillfully supports us to discover why this topic is so necessary and important.

Truly, this is a must-read for all those working with children and families, and it’s a brilliant addition to the Little Minds Matter collection of books.

It must feel like the world is a scary, overwhelming and unsafe place right now for many people from the LGBTQIA+ community. We must always fight to protect human rights, dignity and respect for all people.

Love and solidarity to the trans community today and always. Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

02/04/2025

The maths isn’t mathing. The sums don’t add up. 300 *new nurseries have magically appeared like fairy dust.

The Government can pluck all the numbers they like out of the air, but our three-year-old babies deserve better than a school-led provision pretending they can match what early years educators offer in time for this September.

Furthermore, the factually incorrect insinuation that “educational success” (horrible phrase - not mine) is better in a school-led provision rather than the care and education offered through nursery, nanny or childminder is defamatory.

Call me old fashioned but I always opt for health and happiness over pushing exams on 4-year-olds.

Make no mistake this is a business model meant to top up the failing budgets that many schools are being forced to struggle with and it’s a way to make money for THEM rather than fund OUR early years sector properly.

The truth is, it is always the staff that make the difference. Some of the best early years educators I have ever worked with didn’t hold degrees yet their gift with babies and children was unmistakable and cannot be taught.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a qualified teacher if you don’t have early childhood experience and developmental knowledge. Many teachers working in schools right now have never completed early years specific training in their degree. They should not be made responsible for children in the most critical stage of their life.

There are multiple overlapping issues here but I hope parents of young children recognise that this *new model of “funded childcare” is not properly funded or thoughtout and it may put your chosen nursery or childminder out of business.

I say all of this with first hand experience of school led early years provision, I know when done well with trusted, suitable, experienced and responsible early years educators it can offer safe and nurturing high-quality care but it doesn’t happen overnight! Shame on you Keir Starmar and all those involved.

20/03/2025

Last week was wonderful 💚

It’s been a while since I have had the pleasure of delivering this MHFAider course because I have been suffering from a pr*****ed disc with nerve impingement! 🙃 but there is nothing like the start of Spring and the possibility of a new season 🌱

🌞So it was so lovely to see friendly faces and meet new people last week. In a world that seems fuelled with negativity and stigmatising attitudes toward mental health, mental illness, differences and neurodiversity it was a reminder that not everyone thinks that way.

We had a great group of people who came together to complete their Mental Health First Aid training. There was so much hope in the room of the difference it would make for them personally, in their work and community. Thank you to everyone who took part.

As Sir Desmond Tutu famously said,

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”

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