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To all the cancer clinical nurse specialist who quietly continue to do an amazing job in the most difficult of times to support patients and families - remember you are doing the best you can and you are appreciated. #cancer #nurses #selfcare

Calling all blood cancer Clinical Nurse Specialists 🚨. Please complete the survey below to ensure we gain the insight we need to best support our vital CNS workforce ❤️

Oooh. Looks like it‘ #flyingantday today!

‘I feel deeply honoured and overwhelmed by this recognition.’ After 36 years in the NHS, Matty, a Sickle Cell Community Matron at @whithealth, has been awarded an MBE for her dedication to caring for sickle cell patients. Huge congratulations, Matty! 💙

@NHSEngland @WhitHealth yay Matty! so well deserved 👏

We are hosting local artist Cynthia Hatcher's exhibition in the Stableyard. See watercolours, acrylics, jewellery and other craft wear. All works are for sale with 30% of proceeds going to @LymphonAction Cancer Research UK & @macmillancancer. Open every day until 2 Sept.

Reminder: crying is a HEALTHY emotion. Crying for hours or even a few days means doesn’t mean you’re depressed. We’re meant to cry when it hurts.

Most "eating disorders" aren't disorders. They're attempts at controlling the body after a childhood of betrayal, violation, and chaos. If your body was never your own, binging or restricting is survival mechanism.

Some people have NO IDEA the kind of energy it takes to function at the same time we’re staving off anxiety. There’s a reason why there is a significant overlap between anxiety and chronic fatigue symptoms: because coping with anxiety is exhausting.

Please join us in a confidential and supportive environment to help guide the development of a service to support people with managing pelvic and abdominal consequences of cancer @GivingtoGeorges @AFCW_Foundation @OUTpatientsUK

Women don't hear these things. And they need to. What a generation of women (finally) need to know:

Introverts hate being told what to do. They're extremely sensible, logical, and rational. They do loads of thinking before they act. Done with consequences of consequences. When you tell them what to do, they've already thought, reflected and rejected it. Like twice already.

Virginia Woolf took her own life 83 years ago on this day. Here is the beautiful final letter she left for her husband, my great-uncle Leonard Woolf 💜

Tsundoku, from Japanese, is the act of buying yet another book that you fully intend to read, but never quite get round to.

Instead of 30 under 30, let's talk about... Starting over at 40. Finding yourself at 50. Getting re-married at 60. Why You're Never Too Old:

Crazy how peaceful life becomes when you don't get attached to anything and just mind your own business, letting things unfold the way they need to without trying to control, change, or force the outcome, and enforcing your boundaries when necessary.

Saddened to hear of the passing of Tony Epstein on the 6th Feb 2024. Tony Epstein together with Yvonne Barr in collaboration with Denis Burkitt discovered Epstein Barr virus 60 years ago. thetimes.co.uk/article/profes…

Trauma isn’t just what happened to you. It’s what didn’t happen to you. It’s the care you never got. It’s the protection you weren’t given when you needed it most.

It's not a mystery why so many trauma survivors have such rich & complex internal worlds: when, for years, safety & support is nonexistent around you, you turn inward. Also why so many survivors go on to become mind-bendingly amazing artists & writers & musicians.