Talking Yorkie

Category: Mental Health

  • Celebrating Uniqueness

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    Sharon Holland
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    This week is Neurodiversity Celebration Week, which in essence, is a celebration of uniqueness. I started working with neurodivergent people in 1986. Of course, that was several decades before the term Neurodiversity existed. In fact, at that time there wasn’t even the notion of an autistic spectrum. To be diagnosed as autistic, you had to…

  • Time to Talk Day 2025

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    Sharon Holland
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    Okay, what is Time to Talk Day all about? The first “Time to Talk Day” was held in 2014. It was launched by the campaign “Time to Change”, which aims to reduce stigma surrounding mental health issues. Having experienced mental health stigma myself, I was keen to get fully on board with the campaign. (You…

  • This Week

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    Sharon Holland
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    This week is Baby Loss Awareness Week as well as World Mental Health Day. It’s time we break the taboos around these subjects, so I have decided to ‘go public’ about my own experiences of both these things. Rewind to autumn 1994. My husband and I had been married for three years and decided that…