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World Mental Health Day: Re-learning Resilience and Coping with Post Concussion Syndrome

In 2020, Kimberley, founder and manager of Leeds and Kirklees Well-Bean Crisis Cafes, experienced a car crash that led to her living with a condition called post-concussion syndrome. This condition describes a variety of symptoms caused by trauma to your brain or head, such as vestibular issues, disorientation, vertigo, short- and long-term memory issues, changes in mood, and difficulties with sensory processing. The effects of the condition caused Kim

2022-10-10T09:21:20+01:0010th October 2022|Blog, Mental Health, World Mental Health Day|

Blog for Baby Loss Awareness Week 2022 (9-15 October 2022)

As Baby Loss Awareness Week reaches its 20th year, a Touchstone staff member, Liz, wanted to share her experience of baby loss. Baby Loss Awareness Week is an opportunity to bring people who have been affected by losing a baby together as a community to share their experiences and feel less alone. If you would like support or to find out how to get support, please read on. Content

2023-01-26T15:53:34+00:009th October 2022|Baby Loss Awareness Week, Blog, Mental Health, parent mental health|

World Mental Health Day ‘Living Libraries’ Event 2022

This World Mental Health Day, the Anti Stigma team at Touchstone's Mentally Healthy Leeds will be holding a 'Living Libraries' event to talk openly about mental health and challenge stigma around it. Hi there. My name is Stephanie Francis (but everyone knows me as Steph) and I am a Community Development Worker in the Mentally Healthy Leeds team of Touchstone, based at Cromwell Mount. Each year I work with

2022-10-05T16:18:34+01:005th October 2022|Anti Stigma Leeds, Blog, World Mental Health Day|

Sikh Elders Service and International Day of Older Persons

To mark International Day of Older Persons, which was on Saturday 1st October, our Sikh Elders Service have shared a blog on the ways they have been supporting and celebrating older people in the Sikh Community in Leeds this year. Last Year’s International Day of Older Persons Each year Sikh Elders Service celebrates IDOP with their service users. Last year the theme was “Linking Lives” and service users joined

2022-10-03T10:39:34+01:0030th September 2022|Blog, Carers, Community, International Older Persons Day|

Bi Visibility Day 2022

Today, on Bi Visibility Day, colleagues at Touchstone have shared what bi visibility means to them. Take a look below to explore our takes on bi visibility in all its complexity. For Rachel, from our LMWS team, bi visibility means challenging the erasure of bi people and emphasising that bisexuality is always there, regardless of relationship status. This is only my experience, I can’t speak for anyone else, but

2022-09-23T09:36:35+01:0022nd September 2022|Bi Visibility Day, Blog, LGBT*|

World Alzheimer’s Day: Touchstone’s BME Dementia Service and Support for BME People Living with Dementia

This World Alzheimers’ Month, Touchstone’s BME Dementia Service, in its 10th year, has some vital words on the importance of BME-specific support for those living with dementia and some advice on how to find support. This year marks the 10th year of Touchstone’s BME Dementia Service. As a part of marking this milestone, we featured on ITV Calendar in August to call for more funding for BME-specific support and

2022-09-21T10:20:33+01:0021st September 2022|Blog, Dementia, World Alzheimer's Month|

Lived Experiences of Hypermobile Spectrum disorder and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

This blog is written by: Marion Holloway (she/her) who has hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and autism; and Ruth Armitage (they/them) who has hypermobile spectrum disorder and dyspraxia. Marion and Ruth both work in the LMWS Inclusion Team at Touchstone. What is hypermobile spectrum disorder? A hypermobile joint extends beyond the typical range of movement. In some people this is not a problem, in others it causes problematic symptoms such as

2022-09-15T14:47:54+01:0015th September 2022|Blog, Disability Awareness|

World Suicide Prevention Day: Crisis Support in the Local Area

To mark World Suicide Prevention Day, our Touchstone colleague Laura has shared some key information on suicide in West Yorkshire and how to get support for anyone struggling with their mental health. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) data shows that suicide is more common in West Yorkshire than in England as a whole: 235 deaths registered by coroners as suicides in West Yorkshire in 2020, with an average of

2024-06-21T15:18:43+01:009th September 2022|Blog, Mental Health, Suicide, World Suicide Prevention Day|

I’m Trans and My Dad Has Dementia

For World Alzheimer's Month, Touchstone's Co-production Lead for the Complex Rehabilitation Project, Tristan, has written a moving piece on his relationship with his Dad, who is living with dementia. My Dad has Dementia. He was about 53 years old when he was diagnosed, I was devastated. I felt like my world was ending, when in fact it was just changing. Drastically changing, but not ending. I was around 22,

2022-09-16T12:52:45+01:007th September 2022|Blog, Dementia, World Alzheimer's Month|

Grief Awareness Day: I Miss my Cat more than my Grandfather

Today is Grief Awareness Day, a day mostly marked in the US but recognised and observed by some in the UK and elsewhere too. Quenby, Community Health Development Analyst at Mentally Healthy Leeds, has taken this opportunity to raise awareness around the complexity of grief and the need to make room for this in person-centred care. I’ve been thinking a lot about grief over the past year. I’ve spent

2022-09-05T15:21:40+01:0030th August 2022|Blog, Grief, Mental Health|

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