Lauren Entwhistle, who also has two children, has also experienced financial pressures.<\/p>\n
After struggling with postnatal depression and managing her finances, she turned to Atlas Women’s Centre in Lisburn for support – which she said helped her put her “back together”.<\/p>\n
Now she works there helping other women.<\/p>\n
She said the majority of women who turn to the centre for support are struggling financially.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been through it myself,” she said. “Worrying about that every day affects your mental health.<\/p>\n
“It’s the hub of everything, that’s why there is a big issue with mental health in this country. There aren’t enough resources to help everyone.<\/p>\n
“A lot of the mums here would tell you even if they were getting an extra fiver a week, they would be grateful for anything.”<\/p>\n
Entwhistle said many women carefully count every penny when shopping.<\/p>\n
“It would be nice if politicians came and spoke to women, and realised how hard they have it. <\/p>\n
“Every time these women go to the shop they have to think, about their budget, they are counting pennies… I know myself, there is a constant feeling of guilt, like we’re not doing enough.”<\/p>\n
Entwhistle encouraged women who were struggling to seek help through local women’s centres who can connect women with other services.<\/p>\n
“All you need to do is come through the door.<\/p>\n
“Some people might not like the thought of going to the food bank, unfortunately there is a bit of shame around it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lauren Entwhistle, who also has two children, has also experienced financial pressures. After struggling with postnatal depression and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-680390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}