I’ve written a number of times on this blog about the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences. However, trauma can happen to us at any stage of our lives and its impact can be absolutely terrifying and profound. Here, my friend Charlie Webster (who some of you will recognise from various sports commentary with the BBC) tells her story to shed light on the realities of PTSD and what can help. I’m grateful for her bravery:
The NHS spends a huge amount of money every year, along with local government to help people who have struggled in addiction to find rehabilitation and recovery. Much of it is ineffective (but that is a conversation for another time). However, what’s worse is that once people do recover, and find a new life, we don’t actually let them make a clean start – here my friend, Kate Morrissey bravely tells her story:
Tweet This latest podcast is a conversation with some incredible people from ‘The Well’ community, here in Morecambe Bay, talking about their own very personal journeys from addiction into recovery. Listen as they talk about hitting rock bottom, ego surrender, tough love, hard truth and transformative kindness and how in being with each other, they [Continue Reading …]
Tweet Here is the lastest edition of the ‘Black Swan Podcast’ – available on iTunes, Spotify, Alexa and anypod.net This one is with my good friend, Dave Higham, founder and CEO of ‘The Well’ – an incredible community of recovering addicts, here in Morecambe Bay. This one focuses on Dave’s own story through addiction [Continue Reading …]
Tweet Here in Morecambe Bay, thanks especially to the excellent work of Marie Spencer, David Walker, Jane Mathieson, Hannah Maiden and Jacqui Thompson, we have together developed a way of thinking about population health, which we call the ‘Pentagon Approach’. It draws on learning over a number of years from Public Health England and the [Continue Reading …]
