Category " Inspiration"

I was delighted to be invited to give a keynote presentation at the Nursing in Practice conference at Olympia, London on 6th September. My audience was around 450 nurses. It was my first talk of the autumn so a great ‘back to work’ start! My main aim for the talk was to help the wide […]

As a non-medically trained author, to have my book ‘Another Twinkle in the Eye – Contemplating another pregnancy after perinatal mental illness’,  highly commended for outstanding contribution to medical literature by the British Medical Association, is such an honour. Last night I went to the Awards ceremony held at BMA house in London to discover […]

Over the years that I have been speaking about perinatal mental health, I have heard many delegates say that there tends to be very little on events in Scotland on this topic. So on this basis, and along with Salford CPD, I suggested that we repeated the success of the London and Manchester conferences in […]

Postnatal depression and other perinatal mental illnesses are the cruellest of thieves as they steal some of the magic that early parenthood can bring. Watching a new play tonight by Helen Jeffery, ‘The Brink’, reminded me of how vitally important it is that we do make people aware that regardless of the best plans and […]

Last weekend I returned to Edge Hill University for a reunion organised by the Alumni. I graduated from there in 1985 with a B.Ed (Hons) degree for primary and learning disability. It is 31 years since I left and going back has made me reflect on what my four years there had actually prepared me […]