Holding Hearts Therapeutic Services CIC

13/11/2025

🎅🎄WREATH MAKING WORKSHOP🎄🎅

Don't miss out on this opportunity to make a gorgeous wreath for your home this Christmas. Kindly facilitated by the fantastic Willows Fleurs
December 7th - 10:30am - 1pm or 2pm-4:30pm at Blyth Beach Huts and Dave Stephens Centre

Come along and join us for lots of creativity and Christmas cheer! Mulled Wine and Mince Pies guaranteed! 🍷🥧 Such a lovely way to start the festive season! 🎄

Added bonus you will be helping us to raise funds to support our therapy work for bereaved children and young people! 💚

To secure your place email us at holdingheartsinfo@gmail.com

09/11/2025

We remember 🤍

Today will always make me think of my grandparents, taking a moment for them today, for the stories left untold.

31/10/2025

Happy Halloween! 🎃

17/10/2025

We will be joining Blyth Community Enterprise Centre tomorrow at their halloween fair, along with small local businesses.

Open 10-2pm - Free activities for kids! ✨

Pop in and say hello if you can!! ☺️

17/10/2025

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Every Play Therapist has their own version of a toolkit crate – not just a box of toys, but a collection of symbols, sensory materials, and creative tools that invite communication beyond words.

Here’s a look inside what often travels with a therapist – and the deeper purpose behind each item:

🧸 Miniature figures: help children project real-life relationships and explore power, safety, and belonging through small-world play.
🎨 Art materials: drawing, clay, or watercolours provide a safe way to show feelings that might feel “too big” to name.
🪵 Natural objects stones, shells, feathers, and sand remind children of stability and connection to the real world – grounding tools in moments of stress.
🎭 Puppets and masks: give permission to express strong emotions through a character, allowing the child to stay both “in” and “outside” the story.
🧩 Building materials: blocks, magnetic tiles, or recycled cardboard let children create and rebuild worlds, testing out control, safety, and change.
📖 Story cards and blank books: help children reshape difficult memories into stories with new endings – a key part of therapeutic processing.

It’s not the items themselves that heal – it’s how they’re used, the intention behind them, and the emotional space they create.
A good toolkit crate is never just full – it’s alive, constantly evolving with the child’s needs.

✨ Imagine opening your own toolkit – what three objects would you include to help a child feel safe enough to play?

Learn more about play therapy here: https://zurl.co/RinDm

15/10/2025

🎅🎄WREATH MAKING WORKSHOP🎄🎅

Don't miss out on this opportunity to make a gorgeous wreath for your home this Christmas. Kindly facilitated by the fantastic Willows Fleurs

December 7th - 10:30am - 1pm or 2pm - 4:30pm at Blyth Beach Huts and Dave Stephens Centre

Come along and join us for lots of creativity and Christmas cheer! Mulled Wine, Mince Pies and beautiful seaside views guaranteed! 🍷🥧 Such a lovely way to start the festive season! 🎄

Added bonus you will be helping us to raise funds to support our therapy work for bereaved children and young people! 💚

Limited places available - bookings can be made by emailing us at holdingheartsinfo@gmail.com

13/10/2025

We need your help please for our fundraiser this Saturday. Tombola prizes would be so much appreciated, smellies, chocolate, bottles , unwanted small gifts would be fabulous. Drop off at Blyth Enterprise Centre . Thanks so much 🙏🏻

13/10/2025

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06/10/2025

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🎉It's Kinship Care Week, a national week of awareness, recognition, and celebration of kinship families across England and Wales.

Kinship carers are grandparents, aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters, other relatives or friends, who step in to raise children who cannot live at home.

We want everyone to understand who and what a kinship carer is – and to celebrate the wonderful contributions that they are making for children around the world.

This year we are also highlighting landmark changes in new legislation which should make it easier for kinship families to get the support they need.

Check out Kinship Care Week 2025!
🔗https://frg.org.uk/policy-and-campaigns/kinship-care/kinship-care-week/kinship-care-week-2025/

06/10/2025

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Attention seeking? No, it’s Nurture Harvesting.

I’m often told by parents, social workers or teachers that a child is attention seeking. However when we are reparenting children who have suffered trauma, we must remember that they have most certainly missed out on a lot of early nurture.

This means they are driven to seek the nurture wherever they can. It might be annoying to have constant demands for reassurance, or a child claiming to be ill when they aren’t, but what they’re really saying is, ‘my heart hurts’.

We need to respond to nurture harvesting with warmth and empathy. We might say,
‘I think you are worried I’d forgotten about you’, or
‘I wonder if you were feeling a bit sad when you were asking me those things’?

In this way, we give little pieces of nurture to the child and help them to build back their own heart.

29/09/2025

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Our emotional wellbeing plays a huge role in our heart health. Stress, anxiety, and unresolved emotions can affect not just our mind, but also our body. For children, these feelings can sometimes show up as big behaviours or physical symptoms like tummy aches or a racing heart.

Through Play Therapy, children are given a safe space to explore and express their feelings, helping to lower stress and build emotional resilience – which in turn supports their overall wellbeing, including their heart health. 🌈✨

Today, take a moment to:
💖 Pause and breathe deeply
💬 Talk about your feelings – no matter your age
🏃‍♀️ Move your body, even just a little
🥗 Nourish yourself with kindness and care

A healthy heart isn’t just about physical fitness – it’s about emotional balance too. 💕

18/07/2025

Introducing Ozzy to the Holding Hearts team! He is first and foremost a gorgeous new family member for our Play Therapist Nicola but hopefully when he’s had a good year or so to be a puppy and do a lot of growing and learning, he may like to help Nicola with her work!

He’s also the great great nephew of Rufus , Debbie’s gorgeous boy who is a super helpful member of our team .

Just look how much growing he has to do!