Proud to be invited to speak at the BNSSG Parent and Infant emotional wellbeing pathway launch. With Dr Laura Richmond | laurarichmond.bsky.social we talked about Autism and the maternity experience #maternalmentalhealth #MaternalMentalHealthAwarenessWeek

It's World Maternal Mental Health Day! How you can advocate for new and expectant mums: 1. Write to or email your MP using our template (maternalmentalhealthalliance.org/advocacy-day) 2. Spread the word on social media tagging Maternal Mental Health Alliance and #MMHAdvocacyDay #StrongerTogether #MaternalMHmatters

A new book update went out to supporters yesterday. If it didn’t reach you, let me know.

It me in June's edition of BBC History Magazine!

Reminder that 1 in 29 school age kids in Britain will have lost a parent or sibling. One in every classroom. Grief education matters!

The epistemic injustice of borderline personality disorder | BJPsych International | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/44KPOBw

The cats appear to have stolen a fork - presumably from a neighbour? - and deposited it in my shoe.

If you have experienced birth trauma you are allowed to protect yourself from the news over the next couple of weeks. Thank you to those working hard to uncover the truth. I still have flashbacks 15 years on.

Here it is - the final cover design for All My Worldly Joy, my memoir with Unbound. Supporters should have had an email update from me yesterday. (Let me know if it disappeared into spam/marketing filters!)

My dad seeing me sneak out of the house aged 14 in a mini skirt and crop top to go hang out with the lads from 6th form.

Perfect cosplay doesn't exi-

My entry for The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages has been published online ahead of the print edition. link.springer.com/referencework/… (Drop me a line if you don't have institutional access.) Thanks to Prof Diane Watt for inviting me to contribute.

I shall particularly miss beer, my grandchildren, laughing at people falling over, and the thrill of finding £20 in a pair of trousers I haven’t worn for a while.

New paper: approaches to improving mental health care for autistic adults - includes the Autism Inclusive Research Assessment, a new quality appraisal tool for checking for risk of harmful bias in autism research cambridge.org/core/journals/…

New name, same violence: ‘complex emotional needs’ as a euphemism for ‘personality disorder’ nsun.org.uk/new-name-same-…

New NSUN resource: The language of the mental health lived experience landscape nsun.org.uk/news/new-nsun-…

Puffalump is glancing up from her book to remind you that the supporter list for #AllMyWorldlyJoy will close Tuesday, 10 Sept. Please check you've seen the email from Unbound confirming the name you'd like printed in the book. If you don't have it, let me know. Thanks 💜