Post archive for ‘Health & Happiness’
Happy new year, let’s make it a good one
Looking forward to 2010, what will you achieve?
Tagged as calendar, Health & Happiness, Members, perfectionism, real-life
Categorized as Health & Happiness, Members
Our first FirstSigns Calendar – help raise funds and awareness
Our very first calendar, for your wall. Beautifully put together and printed for you.
Tagged as calendar, wristbands
Categorized as Health & Happiness, Members, Organisation Announcements, Raising Awareness, Raising Awareness, Self-Injury Awareness Day [SIAD]
CBT – Addressing invalidation, criticism, feedback and self-criticism
PG13 Rated! Criticism, even self-criticism isn’t true and isn’t the whole story. Try this simple Cognitive Behavioural idea next time criticism upsets you.
Tagged as CBT, criticism, feedback, invalidation, therapy
Categorized as Health & Happiness, Personal
Research, happiness, statistics and lies
What is it with researchers? Why is it that every study that comes out contradicts the previous one? One month coffee is good for the heart, the next it’s bad. One year mono-unsaturates are good for you, but these days we have to avoid ‘trans-fats’ – whatever they are. More people are staying in the [...]
Tagged as boys, girls, guardian, men, newspapers, nspcc, statistics, telegraph
Categorized as Health & Happiness, Members, Organisation Announcements, Message Board, Research, The Media
Write a letter to your loved ones, and send it to us instead
Coming out about self-injury to the people closest to us is a difficult decision to make. How the other person reacts is bound to have a serious affect on us, be it positive or negative, and so it’s important to think about that first conversation (if possible) before you have it.
Or maybe you aren’t ready [...]
Tagged as expression
Categorized as Health & Happiness, Organisation Announcements, Our Website and the Web
Start your Christmas shopping now and save yourself money and stress
Gift giving is a lovely tradition, and many people enjoy tracking down the perfect gift, the present they know will make their loved one smile.
But Christmas can be expensive. How many times have you had to break your budget to be able to get the gifts you want, or enough gifts for everyone? Each year [...]
Tagged as christmas, money
Categorized as Health & Happiness