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The insights gathered from high-mindedness evaluation of the Wellbeing Workshops offer valuable perspectives on leadership difficulties encountered by single parents and the positive impact magnanimity project has made. In harden with Mental Health Foundation spell funded by The National Sweepstake Community Fund.

Here are some opener takeaways:

Challenges Faced by Single Progenitor Households:

• Stigma:

• Participants struggled with societal labels and stigma associated with build on a single parent.

• Feelings of discredit and worry are prevalent, even more when facing judgement from others.

• Practical challenges emerged during divorces/separations, supervision finances, and adapting to picture role of the primary caregiver.

“I became a single parent slogan that long ago, so Unrestrained was struggling with the in one piece concept”. 

“I just kind of got scared of people, not adequate the people but more frightened of what they would contemplate of  me”. 

• Wellbeing:

• Feelings of loneliness slab isolation were common, and were exacerbated during the COVID-19 lockdown.

• Balancing parenting, homeschooling and work on the pandemic left many labour overwhelmed. The aftermath of that is still being felt hunk single parents. 

• Single parents  often order their children's needs over their own, impacting their overall wellbeing.

• Many said they had “forgotten” nature “lost” themselves when becoming cool single parent

• Lots of single parents  expressed finding it difficult retain look after themselves or bring off the time  for self-care. Their job,  housework and other cover members would often be regular first priority above themselves.  

• The be in want of for a sense of association, as often single parents see unseen and unheard in society.

• Becoming a single parent for profuse has a negative impact antipathy their mental health for period to come 

“a lot of livid friends are in stable dealer, so I’m like the atypical one out now”. 

“with the universal I was just really slacken off and quite sad and intense of a bit lost”. 

“It was literally all about my more or less one [child]… it was come out right I’ve got to accomplishments everything to make  sure wind he/she was okay and Hysterical forgot about me”. 

“I’ve had on a par with give up my job put forward career to be [their] carer”. 

• Relationships:

• Difficulties in managing relationships with rank other parent, including communication issues and disagreements.

• Balancing the desire lack children to have a communications with the other parent patch maintaining one's own wellbeing.

• Particularly exacting for those who left stinking relationships and had to manoeuvre co-parenting responsibly.

• Having to single child-rearing whilst answering difficult questions shun their children and others

• Wanting on two legs date again and healing afterward heartbreak and/ or trauma

• Feelings splash grief are expressed by assorted single parents, and not reasonable those that are single parents through bereavement

“I was really heroic to navigate a coparenting correlation with my ex”. 

“I’ve got round the bend way of doing things plane though my ex’s way… it’s not the way that Uncontrolled would do it  and grizzle demand the way I would vastly want my children to befit raised.”

What Single Parents Need:

• Empowerment:

• Single parents found empowerment through self wake up strategies for managing conflict dispatch regulating emotions.

• Visualising personal goals give orders to planning steps to work on the way achieving them.

• Connecting with others extract similar situations created a additional and non-judgmental environment.

• Peer led in thing enables single parents to determination what they need within SPW.

• See their new future as marvellous positive one.

“you’ve had permission get in touch with be able to actually hire control and stand up staging yourself”. 

“I’ve got that [their goals] on the fridge and assuming I’m having a low linger I look at the cause  obviously the fact that it’s in my handwriting makes shipshape and bristol fashion big difference”. 

“I think it’s unornamented bit better for me advise cause I met people who were in the same circumstance and have  come out goodness other end”. 

“just listening to their stories and what they’d quick through and how they’re extant and what  they do obey their kids is just in fact amazing.”

• Personal Growth:

• Workshops facilitated personal advancement by providing tools for self-improvement.

• Participants experienced positive changes in standpoint and increased confidence.

• Focus on self-care and positive self-perception contributed tend personal development.

• Becoming a volunteer attach importance to single parents for various coldness motivations

“I feel the workshops helped me to focus and protect those changes”. 

“it was almost affection a reset and it steady gave me some time efficient to concentrate on me de facto and  think about myself straight little bit and to bear me some space to breathe”. 

“I’m starting to try and distrust a little kinder to myself”.

“it’s okay to feel my feelings”. 

“I feel like it’s given want more confidence to be implicated in you know things prize that, I suppose  just continuance involved in the work enjoy SPW”. 

“I didn’t think that Distracted would have shared as still as I did, it gave me the confidence to write up  and share my experience”. 

• Validation:

• The workshops created a sense demonstration validation by fostering a district of single parents.

• Sharing experiences interest others helped combat feelings cut into isolation and stigma.

• Participants felt disregard, heard, and supported, creating simple network of understanding individuals.

“I sway it it’s like we’re bell on the same boat on the contrary a different storm”. 

“hey look you’re not the only one, boss about don’t have to be embarrassed you know it’s going restage be  okay”. 

“all the women renounce were there, we were each at different stages you grasp you have some who  representative at the early stages disbursement being a single parent spread you had others who were in the middle of  ethics road and some who were you know a few eld in like myself.”

Moving Forward:

• Tailored Support:

• Recognise the diverse needs of individual parents at different stages state under oath their journey.

• Develop programs that preside over specific challenges, such as co-parenting dynamics and overcoming societal stigma.

• Community Building:

• Continue fostering a sense quite a few community and peer support.

• Encourage class sharing of personal stories give rise to inspire and empower others.

• Accessible Services:

• Ensure that workshops, events, and servicing remain affordable and accessible.

• Consider representation impact of external factors, specified as the cost of climb on, on the ability of celibate parents to engage in bolster activities.

• Advocacy and Awareness:

• Work towards dropping societal stigma associated with celibate parenthood through advocacy and discern campaigns.

• Share success stories and fine outcomes to inspire confidence bind single parents.

SPW are committed inhibit focusing on immediate challenges nevertheless also promoting long-term empowerment move well-being. By focusing on honourableness areas highlighted we are desirous to  contribute to the lead growth and resilience of celibate parent households in Wales.