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Gut Health Ties to Mental Health
Understanding the Gut-Brain Axis What is the Gut-Brain Axis? The gut–brain axis is the two-way communication system between your gut and your brain; they’re constantly talking to each other. This connection isn’t just about nerves sending messages up and down.…
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When Progress Looks Different: Celebrating Small Wins in Recovery
Recovery isn’t a straight line. Some days feel like leaps; others feel more like shuffles forward. And that’s okay. In fact, noticing and celebrating the “small wins” such as showing up to a group, making a simple meal, texting a…
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Supported Living Reforms 2025: What Support Providers Need to Know
The supported living sector has entered a period of significant change. Following the Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act 2023, the Government launched a consultation in early 2025 to explore how the reforms should be implemented. The consultation looks at introducing…
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What Supported Living Isn’t: Debunking the Myths
Supported living is a term many people have heard, but few truly understand. At its heart, it’s about offering people a safe, comfortable, and secure place to live with the right support to help them thrive. For some, that might…
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Why Health & Social Care Can’t Keep Settling for the Minimum
If you work in supported living, you’ll be all too familiar with the ongoing pressures faced across the UK: stretched teams, increasing demand, and fragile funding just to name a few. The recent June 2025 Spending Review brought welcome news…
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Why So Few Autistic People Are in Work and How to Change That
The employment challenges faced by autistic people have been discussed in public discourse for nearly ten years now, and the problem still remains unresolved. Early influential articles like “Why Interviews Exclude Autistic People: A Personal Perspective” published in 2016 by…
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Why Supported Living Matters for Recovery and the NHS
A recent report by the National Housing Federation has brought renewed attention to a pressing issue in mental health care - delays in discharging patients due to a lack of suitable supported accommodation. In 2023–24 alone, over 109,000 days of…
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Huntington’s Disease: Pharmacological vs Physical Interventions
Huntington’s Disease (HD) is a genetic neurodegenerative disorder, characterised by progressive development of hyperkinetic movements, the involuntary actions of the limbs and torso (Roos, 2010). The progressive neurodegeneration also results in psychiatric disturbances and cognitive impairment (Walsam, et al. 2018).…