What Coronavirus meant to me.

STAYING AT HOME! and TOILET PAPER SHORTAGE! I had a new Normal – did you? Community came to mean – front line heroes, NHS, social bubbles, press pause on your life, shielding, face masks, hand sanitisers, lockdown, quarantine, home schooling,...

Life During Lockdown My Thoughts

Hi everyone, its Steve O`Driscoll here and I thought I would share how I have been coping in these strange times. At first lockdown was a novelty working from home, phoning people to see if they are ok and attending online Zoom and Teams meetings which I am now quite...

Experiences of home and work during lockdown

When the news about Covi-19 first hit the headlines I found that my thoughts were racing, and were up and down. The more information that came my way, the more negative I became. I decided to cut down the time I spent listening or watching the media. This helped me to...

My Covid-19 STORY

We were in the Caribbean when Covid-19 struck. The TV news items seemed unreal as the world coped with a deadly virus. We were sharing our great holiday adventures with the new arrivals when the Captain shocked everyone with his words that “the ship had been ordered...

Experience Network Fulfilling Lives Newcastle Gateshead

The last six months…. Hello. We thought we would share some thoughts on what the last six months have meant to us, members of the Fulfilling Lives Newcastle Gateshead Experts by Experience Network. First of all, who are we? We are people with lived experience of...

New year events

Hello everyone, I thought it would be good to squeeze in one more blog before I head off on leave for a couple of weeks. As usual, things have been really busy here. I’ve been away to Singapore to help with setting up our BA Guidance and Counselling degree over there...