Our wellbeing services
January 2021 - Due to ongoing Covid-19 restrictions, the Coates Centre is unable to open its doors and the usual activities are not currently running.
However we have a growing number of online support workshops and sessions run by Oakhaven’s Complementary Therapy team to help improve your wellbeing. Details can be found on our Wellbeing Sessions page
If you live in the New Forest, in the Waterside or Totton and the surrounding area and living with a life-limiting illness (whether recently diagnosed or for some time), perhaps care for someone with a life-limiting illness, or you are finding it hard to cope with bereavement we will try to help you as far as we can during this time.
Please call the Oakhaven Wellbeing team on 01590 677198 for support and advice. (please note due to restrictions for staff the telephone line is not permanently manned but there is an answering service so please leave a name, number and brief message and a member of staff will come back to you).
Living With Life Limiting Illness Support Group
This monthly supportive virtual environment to share ideas and learn coping strategies to live well with your illness is open to anyone living with a life limiting illness, along with family and friends. Sessions offer the opportunity to support each other, share experiences and skills in managing stress and difficulties as well as looking at ways to live life as well as possible.
Running on the 2nd Monday of the month from 9.30 until 10.30am.
Places are limited so please book ahead by contacting wellbeing@oakhavenhospice.co.uk.
Articles from our Wellbeing blog
Outdoor Activities for Health and Wellbeing
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Life After Lockdown- The ‘New Normal’
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Anticipatory Grief – What Is It and How Do We Recognise It?
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Planning for the Future: things to consider
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Self Care in Bereavement
By Paula Noyce, Counsellor As a palliative, oncology and bereavement counsellor, some of the most common descriptions I hear used by those who have lived alongside loved ones through illness […]
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Facing Fear: How to Cope with Health Anxiety during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Having those Important Conversations about Dying and Death
By Paul Hatchard, Chaplain It’s the conversation no one wants to have isn’t it? In fact, in a survey conducted by the charity Dying Matters they found that 72% of […]
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How to support children and young people in the face of COVID-19
By Mette Nielsen, Counsellor Life has suddenly been turned up-side down for all of us and not least our children and young people because of the outbreak of Covid-19. Schools, […]
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Missing the Moment: Self Isolating when a Loved One is Dying
By Steph McClean, Psychotherapist When we have a loved one who is being cared for at the end of life, the choices and decisions we make matter. A key part […]
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How Mindfulness Can Help in Times of Crisis
By Paula Noyce, Counsellor and Mindfulness Practitioner Please don’t stop reading already, I am not going to be suggesting we ‘om’ ourselves through the next four months,,,, We are, indeed, […]
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