Amy Chadwick

@RoyalpapworthO @RoyalPapworth Inspiring as always! 🥰

OTs facilitating engagement using finger operated drum machine @RoyalPapworth

#HappyInternationalWomensDay2024 So proud to work with a group of such talented, strong and successful women @IndependWorks

New Years Resolution 2024 *Start a non-profit that aligns conscious & ethical mental health clinicians & physicians who denounce the legitimacy of psychiatric labels and will not push toxic ideologies & drugs. Our mission will be to forge connections between ethical practitioners and clients, creating a community where people can access accurate information and find clinicians who value informed consent, medical freedom and personal autonomy. I am continuously asked "where can I find a therapist/psychologist/medical doctor like you?" or "where can I find information to make an informed choice?" Parents are concerned about mental health professionals pushing the latest cultural fad, psychiatric labels, drugs, gender/political ideology & even undermining their family values & personal autonomy. For good reason! Medical professionals are threatening to call child protective services if a parent does not consent to a toxic & harmful psychiatric drug. Teachers are brazen enough to suggest, and even guilt parents, into drugging their kids. Primary care doctors are prescribing dangerous drugs off a quick screening tools developed by Pfizer. Therapists, who lack even basic competencies, are pushing psychiatric drugs & diagnoses. Normal developmental challenges, confusions and mood states are being pathologized & we are medicalizing humanity. Where can people turn for safe, compassionate help with someone who has not been fully conditioned and corrupted by a system? Where can people access information on diagnoses, drugs, therapies and learn more about costs and benefits of various approaches? Our goal is to cultivate a society that values informed decisions, medical freedom, and prioritizes the collective mental health of all through the conscious choice of ethical practitioners and access to reliable information. We require a movement. A revolution. More to come

@Pippahales It certainly has! I miss you all already. Best bunch of AHPs a girl could wish to work with 💗 @PapworthAHPs @RoyalpapworthO

It's been a blast @amyeloise85 Your legacy lives on. Thank you and good luck in the next chapter x

We are looking for OTs who wants to join World renowned Royal Papworth Hospital. g.co/kgs/29YRBe beta.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba…

In health & care, we often focus on a narrow concept of improving "staff experience", when we could be building a much deeper & more profound basis of human connection at work: a sense of belonging. Belonging is when an employee, regardless of their background or role, knows that their voice matters, that their unique experiences enrich the team & that they're not just seen, but understood. Organisations that build a sense of belonging have higher levels of engagement, retention & performance: linkedin.com/pulse/belongin… By @hacking_hr

@Keirwales @HoppyPelican @TheOTShow Looks great, see you there!

Me and @HoppyPelican are doing this @TheOTShow on Thurs Nov 23rd. Do pop along. Its free and you'll be drowning in pens and tote bags by the end of the day.

@Jacquih0lmes @movingmedicine Great idea! @RoyalpapworthO

I love this “I can” board from @movingmedicine! Thank you to Lisa Hughes, advanced practitioner physiotherapist for frailty, for bringing this to our attention and sharing how you’ve used it with your patients. Such lovely patient feedback! #EndPJparalysis

Recovering from emotional pain & trauma is not easy, fast or painless. There's an appeal to believing everything can be solved so easily w/ a pill. Quick fix. In reality it has created indelible harm. A Radically Genuine Conversation w/ @DrJessTaylor

Mark my words.

Great to see Nicko from @IronMaiden giving a shout-out to his occupational therapist for helping with his stroke recovery! Thanks Nicko for sharing the value of occupational therapy! 💚 We wish you a full recovery and an amazing tour! 🤘🏿

‘I know I’m being irrational here, but…’ - Women just before they say something totally logical and rational

Thomas Scheff originally argued that people who are diagnosed as mentally ill are ‘victims of the status quo’, guilty of often unnamed violations of social norms; thus the label ‘mental illness’ can be used as an instrument of social control. Learn more ⬇️

@DrJessTaylor You'll smash it @DrJessTaylor 😊

Getting excited about recording the audiobook version of my new book I’ve been writing. Dunno how I’m gonna do it, but I’m gonna do it!

@theRCOT @RoyalpapworthO

It’s common to feel more tired than usual when you’re unwell, recovering from an illness, or managing a long-term condition. To help people manage this we've launched our new guide 'How to manage your energy levels' full of practical advice from OTs. loom.ly/qF8-gwA

With special thanks to @AllainaEden ☺️

🔎 16-pg PDF dissects core OT process of activity analysis (American Practice Framework format). Detailed breakdown of 'making a cup of tea', then template for OTs/OTAs/students, for any occupation 🗂 Inc. in OT Downloads (Plus+) or purchase via Hub Store! theothub.com/product-page/o…

I'm not sure why #OccupationalTherapy is trending today but it reminds me that it was wonderful occupational therapists working with physiotherapists and nurses at St Pancras Rehabilitation Hospital who taught me to stand up and walk, all done with care, kindness and great skill

OTs help you to help yourself. It's not their job to 'train' you. They teach you how you can own your own body, how to listen to it, how to learn from it, how to work it so that it can work.