Insightful Life - Therapy and Counselling Centre

09/12/2025

08/12/2025

As part Neurodivergent Birth Awareness Week, tomorrow afternoon, our Interim CEO Sally Bunkham will be online in conversation with founder, Victoria White. They will discuss their lived experience of ND parenting and supporting mental health.

Spaces are FREE but limited - reserve your spot by copying the link in the first comment below



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08/12/2025

Sharing on behalf of Foundling Museum for the next paid Art Traineeship for care experienced young people at the Foundling Museum. The traineeship runs from February 2026 until July 2026, with workshops every week on Tuesdays 11am-3pm

If you would like more details please email learning@foundlingmuseum.org.uk

08/12/2025

Upcoming ADHD UK events this week!
Join us to learn, ask your questions, and be part of the conversation.

You can get your tickets by donating regardless of size (even £1, but the suggested donation is £5). We appreciate all your support.

Book your tickets here: https://events.adhduk.co.uk/

Thrive with

05/12/2025

0333 335 0026 📱SAVE & SHARE THIS NUMBER

Strut Safe’s lines are open this week.
Fri + Sat: 7PM - 3AM
Thurs + Sun: 7PM - 1AM

JUDGEMENT FREE & UK WIDE

If you’re out alone and you need a chat, our trained volunteers are here for you. Please share this number with friends & family if you know they might be out late this weekend.

04/12/2025

04/12/2025

As part of mental health awareness week we highlight services to support Gypsy and travellers and those that live aboard on our canal systems Bargees.
You are not alone. Whether struggling with suicidal thoughts, supporting a loved one who is, or coping with a loss, there is support out there

Gypsy and Traveller services dedicated to su***de and mental health support:
• Showmen’s Mental Health Awareness Charity
• One Call Away - 07748997617
• Leeds GATE Su***de Prevention Service (young people and adults) - 0113 240 2444
• Traveller Pride therapy and group support (LGBTQIA+) - 07395 355 066
• Irish Community Care (Liverpool/Merseyside/ Cheshire/Wigan/Leigh/Halton) (young people and adults) - 0151 237 3987

• GATE Herts (Hertfordshire) - 01707 247 088
• OneVoice4Travellers (East Anglia) - 01945 430724
• Gypsy Traveller League (UK-wide) - 07424249595
• York Travellers Trust (Yorkshire) - 01904 630526
• Roma Support Group (UK-wide) - 07949 089778

EMERGENCY SU***DE SUPPORT
These are services that are available to anyone in need:
• If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, always dial 999
• Samaritans - 116 123
• MIND
• Text SHOUT to 85258 (UK-wide)

03/12/2025

While Christmas is a time that brings excitement, it can also be a period of stress from planning to saving for many single parents.

If you’re a member of the Gingerbread Community, sign up to take part in our latest online Wellbeing Workshop on December 10th at 8pm designed specifically for single parents to help you navigate the festive season.

You can reserve your free spot here at:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wellbeing-workshop-permission-to-pause-10th-december-tickets-1720601588669?aff=oddtdtcreator

03/12/2025

03/12/2025

We all work better when we take care of ourselves. That’s why there are always nutritious snacks and warming drinks here ready to go.

I’m definitely guilty of dashing out the door without anything to keep me going! Here, no one has to think about it. Fresh, comforting and nourishing so everyone can keep doing their best work 💛

03/12/2025

Dont be alone on Christmas Day

02/12/2025

Today marks the start of National Grief Awareness Week — a week dedicated to educating, acknowledging, and truly understanding the weight of grief in all its forms. Grief shows up differently for everyone and stems from countless causes. But as a community, we focus on the kind of grief that is so often misunderstood and pushed aside: the grief that comes with pregnancy and infant loss.

When a parent, sibling, close friend, or even a pet dies, people tend to understand why you’re still hurting months or even years later. But when our babies die, we’re suddenly placed on an imaginary timeline that only non–loss parents seem to recognize. Pregnancy and infant loss is constantly generalized, minimized, or brushed past. So much about PAIL grief is still not understood — even in the mental health world. Many therapists and psychologists aren’t trained, prepared, or equipped to support parents navigating the death of their baby, and that reality says more than most people realize.

We also know there’s a deep stigma surrounding Pregnancy and Infant Loss. People avoid the topic because it’s uncomfortable — but that silence comes with consequences. When no one talks about it, doctors continue to miss warning signs. Parents don’t receive the support they desperately need. Funding for stillbirth prevention and maternal care research remains inadequate. The stigma keeps everything frozen in place, and it will stay that way unless we’re willing to confront it head-on.

Loss parents know better than anyone how uncomfortable the truth is. We live with it every single day. So this week, take a moment to not just learn about grief, but to understand the unique, lifelong grief that comes with losing a baby. Offer compassion. Offer presence. Say their babies’ names. Help us create a world where grieving parents don’t have to shrink themselves to make others comfortable.

And because this year’s theme is Growing With Grief, I want every loss parent to hear this clearly: growth doesn’t mean “moving on.” Growth is learning to carry love and pain side by side. It’s discovering strength you never asked for. It’s honoring your baby with every step you take. Your grief is valid. Your babies matter. You are not alone.

Sending love,
Hailey Ricks