Louisa Thomas
@louisamthomas.bsky.social
Child, Educational & Community Psychologist IFS Therapist Based in Hampshire, UK She/her 🏳️🌈 Psychology, Musings & Inspiration 🦋
Come join us! I love working in this city and being part of our lovely, ethical, passionate EP team ❤️🔥 #edpsychs
edpsy@edpsy.bsky.social · 3mo ago📢 New EP job vacancy Portsmouth City Council EPS is seeking Educational Psychologists to join their team. 🗓️ Closing 7th September 💡 Interviews 22nd September More information here: edpsy.org.uk/job/portsmou... #edpsychs #EPjobs #recruitment #vacancy #Portsmouth
One of the biggest cultural burdens is the message that suppression of emotion is a strength. Most people don’t believe this consciously, and yet we still have parts that work to avoid or hide our feelings. The irony in this process is that we accidentally cut ourselves off from pleasure and joy.
‘Normal’ is a social construct of the flimsiest kind. The concept serves to shame and fuel comparison. It does not benefit normal people because there are no normal people. They do not exist.
Meow'd until everyone was awake. Then went back to sleep after eating. **Stay toxic 🐈
“If you learned through being lectured at, you’re going to do that with yourself, your parts, and with clients. But if somebody helped you trust your own Self, you’re going to help your client trust their own Self.” - Richard Schwartz - #IFS
Day 3 of training our wonderful Portsmouth ELSAs - Lego Therapy one of the tools in their toolbox for supporting communication and regulation 🌟
Portsmouth Educational Psychology Service@portsmouthepteam.bsky.social · 8mo agoSome vital practice in our Lego Therapy training with our lovely ELSAs today 💫
“The wellness industry cannot sell a solution for ecological collapse. There is no supplement for late-stage capitalism. No app for intergenerational wounds..So these collective realities get reframed as individual pathology. Your accurate response to an insane world becomes your disorder to manage”
Carrying What Was Never Ours Alone
The word trauma has been stolen, stripped, and sold back to us.
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Talking team wellbeing with some wonderful input about the PERMA model from Liz and Issy, following their attendance at the Positivitea conference in January @positivitea-eps.bsky.social @fionacoley.bsky.social 🌱✨
‘The somatic literature speaks of “the body” as if bodies aren’t raced, classed, gendered in ways that produce different conditions and therefore different shapes. None of this can be “released.” The architecture isn’t historical artifact—it’s current construction, being reinforced daily…’
What If Nothing Is 'Stuck' In Your Body
On shape, survival, and the politics of what lives in women's bodies
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Welcome news today that the government is investing in expanding the EP workforce to enable proactive early intervention support👇🏻 www.tes.com/magazine/new... #EdPsychs
DfE commits £26m to recruit more educational psychologists
Funding for hundreds more educational psychologists announced amid concerns that specialists are spending too much time on admin rather than supporting children
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Good parenting involves Self-parenting - as eloquently described here by Covey (1989)
We kind of SHOULD be overwhelmed right now! There's a lot of overwhelming stuff going on, so if you're struggling with that, it's not a YOU problem... Continued below...
It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.
"All conditioned things are impermanent. When one sees this with wisdom, one grows tired of suffering - this is the way to purity" The Dhammapada
It takes an estimated 400 repetitions to learn something thru traditional classroom methods but only 10-20 times to learn through “dedicated play” (Purvis). We desperately need more capacity and space for play, choice and creativity in our classrooms (and wider world)
We're in a polycrisis that threatens the conditions that sustain human life and wellbeing. We must decide, as educational psychologists, not IF, but HOW we will adapt. Silence is no longer tenable and incrementalism is not sufficient #edpsychs #climatecrisis www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
Educational psychology within the polycrisis | BPS
Dr Dan O’Hare and Dr Louise Edgington call for commitment and action.
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Interest-based curiosity is the doorway that leads us out of anxiety and into creativity, which helps us to solve problems in practical ways (Beck, 2024)
Culture often pushes us towards deprivation- over interest curiosity, unless our interests conveniently fit the culture. The more we drop our interest curiosity, and pick up deprivation curiosity, the more we’ll unquestioningly support the social hierarchy and ignore its impacts to our natures…
Litman (2005) identified two types of curiosity; the first, ‘deprivation curiosity’ is a worried need to know, stemming from lack of information about how to feel safe (e.g., how to get enough money to survive), and the second ‘interest curiosity,’ comes from the innate sense of wanting to know.
