{"id":661539,"date":"2026-10-30T09:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T09:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/661539\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T09:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T09:34:08","slug":"litherland-mother-sets-up-womens-group-to-help-tackle-loneliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/661539\/","title":{"rendered":"Litherland mother sets up women&#8217;s group to help tackle loneliness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Honestly it&#8217;s brilliant,&#8221; Becky said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The group has since grown, and now Becky arranges regular gatherings of about 20 women each month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meetings can include anything from meeting for a coffee, to walks in the park, cake decorating and painting classes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People are out there, wanting to do it,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All of these women are going through the things that I&#8217;ve gone through.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think sometimes people are embarrassed to go to therapy, or go to counselling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the group was about &#8220;getting out and just talking to other ladies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s no pressure to share anything. You haven&#8217;t got to tell us why you&#8217;re there, what you&#8217;re doing there. You haven&#8217;t got to tell anything.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Just come and enjoy yourself. Get yourself away from your kids, away from your partner, away from your dog &#8211; away from everything.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think it&#8217;s important to be yourself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As well as being a mum&#8230; being a partner&#8230; it&#8217;s important to be you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Honestly it&#8217;s brilliant,&#8221; Becky said. The group has since grown, and now Becky arranges regular gatherings of about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":["post-661539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}