Well, you were wrong and now, the best is yet to come
Ke$ha - Praying
After BBC Radio Newcastle, confirmed I could announce my live appearance on their Anna Foster show, I instantly wondered how I could share the announcement and so, I’ve chosen to answer a few AI-created (by Chat GPT) questions. If you want to hear more about my mental health journey, trauma recovery, and the growth of my Influencer career and pet bereavement project; Gracie’s Way (www.graciesway.co.uk or @GraciesWayUK on Instagram), then you can listen in live…
“There
are people who make things happen, there are people who
watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what
happened. To be successful, you need to be the person who makes
things happen.”
Jim
Lovell
I’m incredibly proud and very
honoured to announce the re-launch of the completely refreshed Waythrough magazine; Coming Together
(which you don’t have to be a service user or staff of the organisation to
subscribe to, you can subscribe here: Sign up to newsletter - External or learn more about it here: Coming Together - our community
magazine - Waythrough
and if you have a story to submit: coming.together@waythrough.org.uk). I’m also very privileged and
I feel incredibly fortunate to say that I’m now the Volunteer Lead Content
Creator with the Waythrough Communications and Marketing team! In around 2023,
I was given the opportunity to work with a local NHS Trust (Newcastle
Hospitals) to create their Mental Health Strategy and in that partnership, I
created a piece of content around why organisations should be following in
their footsteps (you can read it: WHY NHS TRUSTS NEED TO BE
FOLLOWING IN NEWCASTLE’S FOOTSTEPS!! | IN COLLABORATION WITH THE NEWCASTLE UPON
TYNE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST | I'm NOT Disordered). The blog post proved to be
fairly popular and so I wanted to take that sort of angle for this too and
discuss the qualities that the Waythrough Communications and Marketing
Department exhibit and use to ensure that co-production is at the heart of everything
they do – a massive achievement for a ‘behind-the-scenes’ team to accomplish in
mental health services…
“Believe
in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and
capable of more than you imagine.”
Roy
T. Bennett
When I’m NOT Disordered reached
around 2,950,000 readers I realised I should start deciding/planning/preparing
to write a celebratory blog post and then I made a bit of a mistake of asking
AI (namely Chat
GPT) for ideas
on a theme or angle for it… Why was it a mistake? Because I loved almost all of
its ideas! So, in this post, I
will be chatting through a whole mix of bits and pieces about this achievement;
reasons why I started, reasons why I temporarily quit, reasons why I kept going and the lessons I learned throughout those moments...
Code:
type ‘AIMEE’ at the checkout for 50% off the bracelet
After losing my eight-month-old
bunny; Evie on May 22nd I found a bracelet on Etsy from the store;
EverelleCrafts (EverelleCraft
- Etsy UK). I added ten charms all together with five each having the name
of the pets I’ve lost these past eight years (Dolly,
Pixie,
Emmy,
Gracie,
and Evie) and the other five
were the birthstones for each of them! When it arrived, I was absolutely over
the moon with the quality and the final result of my customisation, and I
actually shed a little tear when I saw all their names! I loved the bracelet so
much that I actually got in touch with the store owner and after a chat, they
offered a discount code exclusive to my readers/followers and I customised and
ordered another three bracelets with one for each of the pets I have now (Luna,
Ruby,
and Tillie)!
To share the discount code (which is exclusive to the bracelet linked at the
beginning) and publicise the Etsy store, I put this blog post together where I’m
going to chat about remembrance after losing a pet with a bit about the benefits
of it, ideas for all sorts of memorials and methods of remembrance, and also some
details on the Gracie’s Way (my pet bereavement project) resource that is super
fitting and useful for this topic…
“When
it comes to improving care for women and girls with mental health problems,
there is no substitute for listening to those with lived experience. Not only
about the complex life problems they have faced, but also their views about
what has helped, and hindered their recovery. That’s why I’m so pleased that
Aimee will be joining us, because she has lived and written about her life and
has a very powerful story to tell.”
Linda
Gask, Emerita Professor of Primary Care Psychiatry at the University of
Manchester
Earlier this year, on February
27th, I gave a speech at the Emotionally Dysregulated Young Person:
Neurodevelopment, Mood, Trauma and Personality CPD Event for Cumbria,
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW). The Trust’s Deputy
Medical Director; Doctor Hermarette Van Den Bergh was also at the event and as a
result of my input, she contacted me afterwards and asked me to speak at the
upcoming Women’s Health Conference at the end of June. It was such an honour
and filled me with pride at the thought I must have done a good job at that
first event! So, I wanted to discuss the main reason why I’m going to speak
at the event – to share experiences that professionals may not often hear…
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