My Brains Not Broken

APRIL 17, 2024

I know we all have good days and bad ones, but I’m talking about something different. One of the reasons I used to find this topic so daunting is because I thought about this in the context of ‘self-care,’ which to me meant something else entirely. Do you ever feel like your day just isn’t going well?

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Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

Emotional reunions Seeing two sisters being reunited with their brother whom they had not seen for five years gave us all goose bumps. Professionals’ reflections echoed what parent and carers had told us. ” Apprehensions among children and parents There were also common apprehensions about taking part.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

When they do the safety demonstration and talk about the air masks. As social workers, how many of us are putting on our mask first? Not many of us. Find an area of work you’re passionate about, it makes the work easier and more enjoyable. So my message is about valuing yourself and valuing where you are on that journey.

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Community Care

MARCH 15, 2024

“This disparity also reinforces further concerns about how racism and inequity is experienced by the children, families, adults, and communities who access our support services. The Skills for Care report is vital to helping us understand the issues, so we can start to address them.”

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My Brains Not Broken

JANUARY 10, 2023

Today, I’ll be breaking down thought spirals : what they are, what they look like and what we can do about them. Another similar term (or perspective to think about this term) are the cognitive distortions catastrophic thinking and magnification. Sometimes our thoughts will lay dormant, not bothering us at all.

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My Brains Not Broken

JANUARY 17, 2023

Our minds wander about all the time, but we’re under the false impression that this can only be in a positive way. When it happens in a negative way, our mind has betrayed us. It chooses us, it selects us, it casts its invisible hand out and taps us on the shoulder when it wants to come out and play.

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My Brains Not Broken

MAY 30, 2023

I learned as much as I could about anxiety and depression, hoping to learn something that would help me beat it. Now while I wouldn’t quite agree to the exact percentage they use, I like the idea behind it. Raising awareness can improve people’s lives, and teach us how to help others.

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My Brains Not Broken

MAY 25, 2023

It could be a song I don’t know much about, or I’ve listened to a thousand times. Some of my favorites include “I’m Good,” “Through the Dark,” and “Carry Your Will,” but the one I want to talk about is especially timely during Mental Health Awareness Month.

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My Brains Not Broken

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

After writing my most recent post about misunderstanding the meaning rest , the idea continued to sit in my mind. As I wrote in that post, it’s clear that many of us know we’re not getting enough rest. What I love about this variety of rest is that each type of rest fills a unique need for people.

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My Brains Not Broken

MARCH 13, 2024

Maybe that sounds like I haven’t learned much about depression, but I’d disagree. For me, there’s a difference between learning about depression and learning about how to deal with my own depression — and that’s what I’d like to talk about today.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Social workers have spoken out about feeling ignored and undervalued by employers. During a strike at Barnet Council , approved mental health professional manager Gill Robinson said the strike was the culmination of years of mental health services being “largely forgotten about” and “undervalued”.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

It also requires working with NHS primary, community and mental health services to support wellness and wellbeing rather than crisis, sickness and just keeping us alive. “We “This means co-production with communities, long term investment in technology, accessible housing with care and preventative services. .

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Blurt It Out

APRIL 15, 2024

Despite knowing that rest is vital to our well-being, many of us tend to struggle when it comes to actually going ahead and taking that time off. The stress and overwhelm that can be experienced at the thought of the knock-on effects of taking time off, can be enough to stop us in our tracks. Why D o We Experience So Much Guilt ?

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Social Work Futures

APRIL 6, 2023

In the past few weeks, I’ve (like many of you) been both experimenting with and being asked to comment about Chat GPT. This is an incredibly important space for us to continue exploring and thinking about.

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My Brains Not Broken

AUGUST 24, 2023

After writing about high-functioning anxiety earlier this week , I started thinking about habits. They can be good for us, they can be bad for us. Simply put, our brains are trying to make things as easy for us as possible. Eventually, we barely think about these habits, even while we’re doing them.

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Social Work Futures

MAY 24, 2022

Think about how different a “typical social work job” was 50 years ago. For additional imagination stretching about what jobs might look like in the coming years…come play or browse “Social Work Jobs of the Future” on this site! Let’s have an imagination session! That would be the year 1972.

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Blurt It Out

MARCH 3, 2024

This can be hard for both us and our loved ones to understand. When on the ‘house’ side of that wall, our anxiety is just about at a manageable level. Though some of us can manage our anxiety to an extent, and consequently can leave the house occasionally ( though it can be exhausting ).

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Blurt It Out

MARCH 3, 2024

It’s part of what makes us human. For some of us, it can feel as though our past mistakes follow us around. Learning to let go of them can help us to move on. They help us to learn and grow as people, and without mistakes, we would never get anything done. Often, mistakes can teach us something.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The response has been great, with lots of stories about how organisations are working with carers to co-produce services and place them at the heart of decision making. “The panel gives them the chance to offer feedback about the services they are using every day and iron out issues they are personally experiencing.

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My Brains Not Broken

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Since this week is Thanksgiving in the US, I’m thinking a lot about the word gratitude. There are many ways that people can find gratitude (and I hope to make a post about that in the near future!) There are many ways that people can find gratitude (and I hope to make a post about that in the near future!),

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My Brains Not Broken

MAY 3, 2022

Even though we can advocate year-round, this month is a time for specific conversations about shrinking the mental health stigma and advocating for the policies and services that people need. What are some other ways to talk effectively about mental health? On the Blog This Month. Let me know in the comments!

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My Brains Not Broken

DECEMBER 8, 2022

There are many ways that the wintertime can make us feel symptoms of depression. I’ve written posts about the signs of depression, about looking out for different symptoms and noticing patterns that seem out of the ordinary, but it’s more complicated than that. And many times, that’s exactly what we need.

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Blurt It Out

APRIL 15, 2024

We might fall into a spiral of worry and anxiety, struggling with distressing feelings, and worrying that others may judge us for hiding away. Our home is our safe space and provides us with a sense of control. These feelings are messages from our body, reminding us to look after ourselves and regain our power.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

Answering this question gives us a chance to tell you about our history and our future… both where we’ve been and where we’re going. Join us to receive a few inspiring stories each month and help end childhood adversity. Learn more about KVC’s history. In 2023, we welcomed 800 employees from St.

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My Brains Not Broken

DECEMBER 9, 2021

This week on My Brain’s Not Broken, we’re talkin g about perfectionism. Long-term, this can help us set realistic goals that don’t use up all of our energy. Saying no, even to things that might not seem that time-consuming, can help us learn that our time and energy is valuable. based on who people are.

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My Brains Not Broken

JUNE 6, 2023

After my latest post about the ebbs and flows of life , I thought more about my day-to-day life. But there’s a different challenge I want to talk about today. And while I usually think about that optimistically, it can also be demoralizing for my mental health. Now before I continue, I should clarify what I mean.

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Blurt It Out

MARCH 3, 2024

Depression can cause us to feel increasingly irritable. This can lead to us snapping at people, which is often followed by a wave of guilt. Between a smaller window of tolerance, and a cloudy, foggy, depression brain, it takes far less to ‘set us off’ than we’re used to. Using a weighted blanket can be helpful.

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My Brains Not Broken

MARCH 8, 2022

I think about what the world was like in that moment being marked and how I fit into that specific moment. Though I haven’t quite sat with the March 2022 of it all (yes, that’s two years of pandemic for us in the States), I’ve come to realize that in those past two years, I’ve created many habits.

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My Brains Not Broken

JULY 25, 2023

Today, I’ll be breaking down should statements : what they are, what they look like and what we can do about them. When we do, there is a word that almost everyone uses in an attempt to try and solve the problem: should. What Can We Do About It? What Are Should Statements? Have you ever second guessed yourself?

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Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 23, 2022

Our little guy, Kugle came to us about 12.5 She had three rules to agree to his coming home with us: She owned the front half; He would stay on the main level of the house; He would only sleep on his bed. Neither of us had a dog before. If Kugle failed with either of us, neither of us could belong to the program with him.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

A failure of the system However, for social worker Beverley Barnett-Jones, the experience of these children is not just about a dearth of placements but a failure of the system to address their needs much earlier in their lifespan. “These children are known to us – the majority were already on care orders.

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Social Work Futures

JANUARY 3, 2023

In my work preparing to deliver a meaningful and (hopefully) useful and relevant set of frameworks for social work as a profession to think about its future – I felt it was necessary to do the deepest dive possible about our history. This is not a resource about the good things. It was sobering.

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Community Care

APRIL 12, 2023

By Lorraine Currie The timeline provided by Community Care , from the 2014 Cheshire West judgment to the government’s postponement of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) , is incredibly helpful in reminding us of events we would otherwise forget. This will no doubt be repeated this year.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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Beautiful Voyager

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Thank you for all you do to light the path for other voyagers, Meredith Tell us about yourself * Tell the readers a little about yourself—where did you grow up and where do you live now? Tell us about your breakdown experiences * Next, can you tell the readers a little about your breakdown(s)? What helped?

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My Brains Not Broken

APRIL 13, 2023

That doesn’t mean I can’t work toward my goals, toward things I’ve dreamed about. One of the things I love most about people is the variety of the hopes and dreams we have. Not only do we have different goals, but we also have different ideas about how we can meet those goals. But it’s not easy.

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My Brains Not Broken

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The more I learn about depression, the more I come to terms with the fact that there will always be more to learn. In fact, it’s likely that there’s so much more I don’t know about my own depression than what I’ve learned over the past decade.

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