Sarah Penn
The Mummy Paradox
At first it feels luxurious, like you are an economy traveller who’s accidentally found themselves in first class. People are solicitous...
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SARAH PENN
Children's and Neonatal Nurse | Journalist | Mental health advocate | Writer
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I'm a registered children's nurse, former-BBC News journalist, mental health advocate and peer support worker. I've worked in China, Italy, Tanzania, London and Cumbria.
I gave birth to my daughter in 2018 and have since shared my experiences of mental illness and worked for the Happy Mums Foundation.
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I'm scared but I'm brave
"But since my theme will be the good I found there, I mean to speak of the other things I saw.” Dante, Inferno Canto 1 This week the call...
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I left the house! A modern day action film...
Never has a visit to the supermarket meant so much. My week was up, the confines of my house were breached and I ventured forth into the...
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Seven steps for self-care
Self-care can sound either so fluffy and lovely you wonder why we don’t all do it or so selfish that only arrogant narcissists can...
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The road to recovery is rocky indeed
January must have been invented by someone with a sick sense of humour. We start the year penniless, plump and probably ill. It’s wet and...
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The ghosts of Christmas past and future
This time last year I was a patient on a mother and baby unit at a psychiatric hospital in the north east. I had suffered badly with...
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