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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 · 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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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 · 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 · 03/07/2025
Erudite lecturer and fearsome intellectual. (This picture reminds me of Robin Day)
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
So many had to… - give birth alone - attend appointments alone - receive distressing news about their baby’s death alone - try to show health professionals their scars via a screen. Daisie created a compilation of 150 experiences for her book #MotherhoodinLockdown These stories need to be heard.
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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 · 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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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
We know we save lives, we are continually told that from participants, yet we continually have to fight to get the funding we need to continue. Our groups: Save money ✅ Build a community ✅ (therapy treats women in isolation) Empower women to thrive, not just survive ✅
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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 · 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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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 · 20/02/2025
No cat bags…?
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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 · 25/01/2025
I foresee a future for Alexander in broadcasting in the same mould as Ben Fogle. #TheTraitors. (Tbh though, we should just get him being a diplomat everywhere. Calm, measured, polite. A true gentleman.)
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
For years as director of @mothersuncovered.bsky.social, I’ve pointed out the correlation between parental mental health & impact on children, but financial investment is never made. This piece doesn’t state it: it starts with #Mothers, they need postnatal support. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
HNY! Take a video of me dancing with the cat, said I. And they all held up their phones…🤣 Then a blustery beach walk with some of my overnight guest, where we tried to enact 2025 with our hands…
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Cat: I am enraged Christmas is over. Damn you, Christmas!
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Cat: I am playfully pretending Christmas isn’t over…
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Cat: I am in denial that Christmas is over…
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Cat: I am desolate that Christmas is over…
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Am hiding…. #Caturday
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
The cat has decided to put HERSELF in the corner. Are there any, as yet undiscovered, crimes committed? #Caturday #nobodyputsBabyinthecorner
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
‘Woe betide the fool who gets in a busy parent’s (especially, but not limited to, a parent of an under-5) way…. In the run-up to Christmas…. For they verily will feel that parent’s Christmas Wrath.’ 🤶🎄 Modern-day proverb….
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Attention! Christmas starts here. In my haste, I nearly purchased the TV Times. ‘They’re all the same,’ said the man at the till. I don’t THINK so, Sonny Jim! #RadioTimes
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Foolish Christmas cat and chairs, you say Chris? Watch to the end
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
What a fantastic night at the #SocEntAwards24! An immense honour to win the Women’s Champion Award - thank you! @socialenterpriseuk.bsky.social
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
With @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social and my award - woohoo!
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Swanking it up at the #SocEntAwards24 at The Roundhouse for @mothersuncovered.bsky.social
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
GIVEAWAY! 🎦 I’ve seen #Nightbitch which opens on Dec 6. It’s a powerful, funny, moving film, laying motherhood bare. We’ve (@mothersuncovered.bsky.social) got 4 tickets for opening weekend! To win a pair of tickets, please ➡️ this account ✅ like this post 🙋🏻‍♀️ tag a friend. You won’t want to miss this
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
True dat.
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Maggie Gordon-Walker @maggiegordonwalker.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I feel very privileged to have seen a preview screening of #Nightbitch. It comes out next month and tackles so well the many conflicts of #motherhood and the whirlwind of #matrescence. Definitely a must see, not just for #mothers, but for anyone interested in the impact motherhood has on women.
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