Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Come join us! I love working in this city and being part of our lovely, ethical, passionate EP team ❤️🔥 #edpsychs 031
Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 22/05/2026One 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. 121
Reposted by Louisa ThomasAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026daaaamn london 116176644692
Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 20/05/2026‘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. 100
Reposted by Louisa ThomasFor the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Meow'd until everyone was awake. Then went back to sleep after eating. **Stay toxic 🐈 1524129282
Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 03/04/2026“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 010
Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Day 3 of training our wonderful Portsmouth ELSAs - Lego Therapy one of the tools in their toolbox for supporting communication and regulation 🌟 010
Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 01/03/2026“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”open.substack.comCarrying What Was Never Ours AloneThe word trauma has been stolen, stripped, and sold back to us. 010
Reposted by Louisa ThomasPortsmouth Educational Psychology Service @portsmouthepteam.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Talking 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 🌱✨ 133
Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 21/02/2026‘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…’open.substack.comWhat If Nothing Is 'Stuck' In Your BodyOn shape, survival, and the politics of what lives in women's bodies 001
Reposted by Louisa ThomasProfessor Vivian Hill @vivianedpsy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Welcome news today that the government is investing in expanding the EP workforce to enable proactive early intervention support👇🏻 www.tes.com/magazine/new... #EdPsychstes.comDfE commits £26m to recruit more educational psychologistsFunding for hundreds more educational psychologists announced amid concerns that specialists are spending too much time on admin rather than supporting children 042
Reposted by Louisa ThomasLara Ianuzzi @laraianuzzi.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Bearing Witness #monoprint Acrylic on Paper #art #printmaking 413089322
Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Finally a little sanity and justice 🙏🏼🇵🇸theguardian.comUK Palestine Action ban ruled unlawful, in humiliating blow for ministersThousands arrested for supporting group since proscription are now in legal limbo as Mahmood says she will appeal 000
Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Good parenting involves Self-parenting - as eloquently described here by Covey (1989) 010
Reposted by Louisa Thomasarnaerr 🦭⭑。 @arnaerr.bsky.social · 06/02/2026"Shouldn't have wished to live in more interesting times" #bg3 #baldursgate3 #art 92730355
Reposted by Louisa ThomasDr Pete Olusoga @dr-peter-olusoga.bsky.social · 05/02/2026We 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... 55614
Reposted by Louisa ThomasRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 05/02/2026It 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. 15074511813
Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 03/02/2026👏👏👏theguardian.comStormzy calls reading a ‘superpower’ as he backs accessible books campaignThe musician is championing the annual Quick Reads initiative, which will release six short, digestible titles for ‘nonreaders and lapsed readers’ in April for £1 each 010
Reposted by Louisa ThomasDakiniSpirit @dakinispirit.bsky.social · 03/02/2026"All conditioned things are impermanent. When one sees this with wisdom, one grows tired of suffering - this is the way to purity" The Dhammapada 2436
Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 01/02/2026It 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) 010
Reposted by Louisa ThomasDr Dan O'Hare @edpsydan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026We'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...bps.org.ukEducational psychology within the polycrisis | BPSDr Dan O’Hare and Dr Louise Edgington call for commitment and action. 175
Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Interest-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) 010
Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Culture 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… 110
Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Litman (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. 010
Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 26/01/2026We spend so much time and energy on staying regulated, becoming calm, as if that is the goal. To have just enough calm to cope, just enough energy for performing. Who would we be if calm was a stepping stone we jumped from? Calm not as destination but necessary prerequisite for creativity and play. 020
Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Wise words as always from Ailey Joley. Here’s to less time consuming and more time organising, creating, resting and inhabiting our lives 💖✨ 030
Reposted by Louisa ThomasPortsmouth Educational Psychology Service @portsmouthepteam.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Snapshot of our ‘dream’ as part of our anti-discriminatory practice PATH that we did as part of our EP Team Day last week…a very fruitful day and we’re taking our first steps this week. We love a PATH! ✨ #edpsychs 031
Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Really moving day so far. Bringing some much needed realisations and intentions for action within me and my colleagues who are attending. Thank you @eps4change.bsky.social 072
Reposted by Louisa ThomasDr Pete Olusoga @dr-peter-olusoga.bsky.social · 01/01/2026As we approach the New Year and are being bombarded with ads that promise life changing new habits in 21 days (for a subscription package of course!) here's a little PSA for you. Happy New Year! 🎇 #newyear #happynewyear #newyearnewgoals #motivation 1308
Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 30/12/2025What we call ‘normal’ is a chaotic version of survival mode, and it’s not fun. So taking time to orient ourselves every single day, to retune ourselves to the creative and adventure modes of the game of life. Eurgh, Martha Beck - I love her ❤️open.spotify.comSpotify – Web Player 020
Reposted by Louisa ThomasPippa TEP @pippatep.bsky.social · 26/12/2025We are back again running our reflective spaces for Black and Global majority applicants. Eventbrite links will be up next week if you check back in soon. Drop us a line on our TEPICC socials if you have any questions #edpsychs please share! 055
Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 23/12/2025People will not give you what you deserve. They will give you what they’re capable of giving, and their capacity is not a measure of your worth. 010
Reposted by Louisa Thomas🚀 Dr Fi Coley (The Ed Psych Coach) @fionacoley.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Eek! My first podcast appearance 👀 I strongly believe that #edpsychs deserve to enjoy their work. We spoke about ways to support EPs who may be feeling disillusioned, disconnected and/or isolated. Really hoping this sprinkles a little positivity and hope for any EPs feeling glum out there 🚀 💖 ✨ 063
Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Here’s to some brighter days heading our way ✨ 010
Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 19/12/2025So you can burn all of your words and live a life of quiet, Think ‘now I won’t be criticised, now I’m safe from violence’ But you’ll be at the funeral and have nothing to read, And goodness dies in silence, so I think you should speak. ❤️ ~~ Lucas Jones ~~ 010
Reposted by Louisa ThomasBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential 62143874042
Reposted by Louisa ThomasKaiJen M(s) 🏵️🎉 @jenetmms.bsky.social · 03/12/2025what if instead of stepping out of my comfort zone I step into an even comfier zone. perhaps take a nap in a large fluffy dinner roll. 6301103
Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 04/12/2025IFS therapists are encouraged to develop a good relationship between their Self and Self-like parts (often ‘therapist parts’) who inevitably act as an agent of the status quo. In contrast, the Self is an agent of change and healing. Sweezy, 2017 120
Reposted by Louisa Thomasedpsy @edpsy.bsky.social · 01/12/2025📋 New project page Anita and Ruth are working to develop a tool designed to promote refection on psychological safety, within supervision. To participate you can trial using the tool and then complete a survey. More info here: edpsy.org.uk/blog/2025/pr... #edpsychs #supervision 074