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Maggie Gordon-Walker

@maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social
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Writer | Speaker | Performer | Matrescence Advocate | fond of a bon mot. #TheArchers grumbler. #SecretLifeOfMothers 📕 & 🎙️ Big Issue Changemaker & Social Enterprise UK Women’s Champion. maggiegordon-walker.com Founded Mothers Uncovered

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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Well, someone obviously told Anita Rani the correct pronunciation of #matrescence while they were trailing the podcast #WomansHour. It’s a word we’ve been advocating for @mothersuncovered.bsky.social for over 8 years. You can look us up here too www.matrescence.uk
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
It was a privilege to speak at the #MaternityAPPG chaired by Michelle Welsh MP last week. A powerful discussion, with impassioned pleas from those working with #harmedmums to bring real change and righteous anger from the women themselves who’ve had devastating experiences. #birthtrauma
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Anyone identify…? #Christmas is magical… and absolutely chaotic. If you’ve ticked even one of these, you’re in good company. Our @mothersuncovered.bsky.social groups exist for moments just like this. The tears, the laughs, the overwhelm and everything in between. #christmasfails
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
#ChildrenInNeed Children need happy, healthy parents in order to thrive. And mothers especially need support for their mental & emotional wellbeing. It would mean so much to our small charity @mothersuncovered.bsky.social to receive any donations, however small mothersuncovered.com/how-you-can-...
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Delighted to share our latest episode of The Secret Life of Mothers podcast. I interview award-winning filmmaker Ida Melum, who has created a vibrant & powerful short ‘#OvaryActing’ in which the central character is deciding whether to have kids, being besieged by family members and her own ovary!
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Sounddelivery Media @sounddeliverymedia.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
@maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social credits the confidence and connections gained through our spokesperson training programme with enabling Mothers Uncovered to influence national policy. Read more below www.sounddelivery.org.uk/2025/11/the-...
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Today marks the start of #BabyLossAwarenessWeek. Two years ago, I spoke to the inspirational Ali Norell for The Secret Life Of Mothers podcast who sadly lost her baby daughter suddenly at 4 months, which is every parent’s darkest nightmare. #secretlifeofmothers #podcast
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
What does a good maternal mental health service look like? In my opinion it’s critical to have peer-led spaces where mothers can discuss their #matrescence and the realities of motherhood in an honest way without fear of repercussions. @mothersuncovered.bsky.social @mindfulmatrescence.bsky.social
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
At the #LabourConference2025 I will be attending this roundtable event bringing together experts, parliamentarians, campaigners and clinicians to discuss maternal mental health services in the UK. My focus, as ever, to shine a spotlight on the need for peer-led services.
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The regulators are not being included in the investigation into maternity care? That’s like having a ship without a rudder. Beyond insulting for the families involved and for mothers we work with @mothersuncovered.bsky.social who have suffered. #maternityinvestigation #BBCRadio4Today
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
For #WorldSuicidePreventionDay a piece I wrote about the recent #EmergencyAlerts and how so many members of society are flagging their OWN emergency alerts, ie their mental health, which are not heeded. mothersuncovered.com/uk-alerts-wh...
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UK Alerts - What's Your Emergency...?
Last weekend saw another Emergency Alert test in the UK; a government service that brought a loud beeping noise to all smartphones. I’d been driving up to Blackpool a week or so prior to this, n
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
This Monday was Mums Equal Pay Day, nearly 3 months earlier than Equal Pay Day. Working mothers earn around £302 less every week than working fathers. It’s often not even viable for mothers to work due to childcare fees. Their knowledge and experience is wasted. #workingmothers
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The birth rate is falling, yet people can’t afford to have children…🤷🏻‍♀️ Most families have barely enough money for basics. And rushing mothers back to work (as if looking after a baby isn’t work 🙄) isn’t helping. To help families & therefore help society, there needs to be investment to support them.
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
What?! Am sleeping. #Caturday…
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
See below for slice of heaven clip from the mountains in Portugal - goat bells and a choir drifting up from the valley. Truly stupendous.
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Thank you to ABC magazine for publishing my piece about the importance of #matrescence for mothers and their families. At @mothersuncovered.bsky.social we know how helpful an understanding of matrescence is for #mothers’ wellbeing. ABC is a brilliant free resource for families in #Brighton & Sussex
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
You can also support us at no cost to yourself through Easyfundraising ➡️ mothersuncovered.com/how-you-can-... @mothersuncovered.bsky.social
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Awake…. Not Awake…. #Caturday 🐈‍⬛
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
On this episode of the @mothersuncovered.bsky.social #secretlifeofmothers #podcast, I speak to the fabulous Daisie Lane. As Daisie says, it’s been five years since the #pandemic #lockdowns. So many were affected, but many don’t know what #mothers went through open.spotify.com/episode/6f45...
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Motherhood in Lockdown
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Once again, @mothersuncovered.bsky.social is desperately seeking funding in order to help #mothers experiencing #birthtrauma, anxiety & isolation. Every £ is gratefully received, you can also support via Easyfundraising/entering our lottery. Thanks 🙏 #matrescence mothersuncovered.com/how-you-can-...
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Happy ☀️ Friday… We are delighted to bring you @mothersuncovered.bsky.social founder #maggiegordonwalker in conversation with #beckybarnicoat author of graphic memoir #CryWhenTheBabyCries for #secretlifeofmothers #podcast open.spotify.com/episode/769FyG…
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
David: What was I doing in this nightmare…? Elizabeth: Just being yourself…. #TheArchers
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Melinda Haunton @melindahaunton.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... This is very good. Though not in any way jolly or helping today's bleak mood. Necessary, though, to put authenticity above cliche.
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My VE Day was nothing like our image of it today. I hope we can honour what it really meant | Sheila Hancock
Our street party tea was a muted celebration, full of uncertainty. Then, as now, we faced a long struggle towards a better world, says actor and writer Sheila Hancock
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
🔥 “There’s something wrong in this country… everything has gone up but wages… how many yachts and houses does one person need? — They want us to stay poor, stay hidden, and die silently.” 🇺🇸 #FightTheOligarchy H/T @violadavis.bsky.social
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Hearts & Minds Partnership @hmpartnership.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
We're pleased to announce the guest line-up for our Birmingham-based event on 19 May for the VCSE perinatal mental health sector: Strengthening the Roots! Book your tickets before the closing date on 5 May: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strengthen... Guests continued and tagged in thread below . . .
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Lazy #Caturday for me and the feline…
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Cheers! 🥂
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Charity Hall of Fame @charityhalluk.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
@maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social is changing how we talk about motherhood. 💬 As founder of @mothersuncovered.bsky.social, she’s supported 3,000+ women and built a space for conversation, support and maternal advocacy. Proud to Induct her into the Hall of Fame. #ClassOf2025 #Matrescence #InspireChange
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Very proud of my boy. This is the acoustic version of their new track. #PleaseBeMine #Delirium youtu.be/CJlJMJEqaJM?...
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Delirium - Please Be Mine (acoustic)
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
As founder of #MothersUncovered & advocate for #matrescence it was great to speak to spoke to Rosie Taylor for #TheIndependent about a subject close to both our hearts, the importance of #mothers mental health and how groups struggle to receive funding www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
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‘Mothers will never be priority’: Postnatal support cut despite soaring need for help
One in five of the 600,000 women a year who give birth in the UK experience a mental health condition but support is patchy and on the decline
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Did our Fweddie really say ‘the boners are over there’? #thearchers
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a man with a beard is wearing an orange turtleneck and a gray shirt .
ALT: a man with a beard is wearing an orange turtleneck and a gray shirt .
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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
Full of people down 5th avenue, view from 39th Street.
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Fweddie and Rex sorting out the Ambridge cricket team #TheArchers
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Fire up your listening devices… #Delirium (my son’s band) new single out today. That no fool 😜 open.spotify.com/album/6LQ68U...
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Please Be Mine
Delirium · Single · 2025 · 1 songs
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Heard about this today…. www.charityhall.org/inductees/ma.... Rock ‘n’ roll 🎸 😉 @mothersuncovered.bsky.social
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Maggie Gordon-Walker | Charity Hall of Fame
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DAILYSPARK @dailyspark.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Absolutely incredible 👍
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Well, hello there! #Caturday
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Great to meet @laurakyrkesmith.bsky.social to discuss the work of @mothersuncovered.bsky.social and the work that needs to be done to support #mothers and fathers/partners and their families. It’s critical to recognise the importance of #matrescence and of #peersupport in improving mental health.
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Quite! No-one here knows what it means, but you and I do 😉
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Calling #Brighton and #Hove mums! We are very pleased to announce our drop-in sessions starting next Monday 17th March #puzzlebored! These relaxed sessions will run every Monday in term-time from 9.45-11.00. The shop will be open just for our session until 11.00. You are welcome to stay after that..
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Matrescence Advocate Maggie @matrescencemaggie.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
‘How was the birth of your baby…?’ Many #mothers struggle with the answer to that question. They feel grateful to have their #baby, but the memories of the birth often keep coming back. They might be angry, or sad, or guilty or ashamed that they did something wrong, didn’t try hard enough.
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I’m torn between wanting Kirsty to get a much better offer than from Tom & Gnasher or for her to accept, through gritted teeth, then the sewage rises uncontrollably - for that house only - on the day they complete. #TheArchers
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Borsetshire radio, I’d imagine, is not the cut & thrust world of the Today programme/Newsnight, nor a muck-raking tabloid, but I’d put good money on this interview with Emma somehow mentioning her ‘family troubles’ in an unrelated sewage story, leading to meltdown and flounce. #TheArchers
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Check out the backpack on the person with red shoes on the platform! They’re watching us!
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
In this ever increasing world instability, here’s me with my two oldest friends - smiles are good!
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
@jimpiddock.bsky.social am assuming this is NOT you, Jim. Imitation being the sincerest….etc etc
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Our friend, whizz builder Colin, came to do some jobs, including putting up some shelves. He’d barely turned his back before this happened. #Caturday
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Below is an example of a #mother we helped after her third birth. She was so grateful she privately donated us some money ‘so that others can get the help I did.’ Without more investment into #mothers post-natal mental health in #matrescence more will become unwell. @mothersuncovered.bsky.social
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Delighted to share with you this powerful podcast for #mothersuncovered Sam is an inspirational powerhouse - she manages a thriving service in Blackpool, where she draws on her lived experience to support those affected by suicide. open.spotify.com/episode/06j39j…open.spotify.com/episode/06j3...Qw
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I'm Still Here
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