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After Ostomy surgery, as well as adjusting to coming to terms with the way your body now functions and your body’s appearance, you may have lost confidence; confidence in yourself, and your abilities.

In these 60-minute webinars, psychotherapist & registered nurse Donna Butler, Gill Hassan, Fittleworth Nurse Julie Jones and ostomates Rachel Stokes (webinar 1) & Liam Manning (webinar 2) discuss the issues that may be of concern to you both before and after surgery.

This recorded session covers:

Thoughts, feelings and concerns you might have about your body and body image.
Practical concerns and solutions for life with a stoma bag.
Managing relationships, dating and sex.
Knowing what to wear and what to eat.

Positive approaches to developing and maintaining body confidence.

Webinar 1 – with Rachel Stokes

Webinar 2 – with Liam Manning

Q&A Session

In this recorded Q&A session, psychotherapist & registered nurse Donna Butler, ostomate Rachel Stokes, and Fittleworth Stoma Nurse Julie Jones answer any questions webinar attendees had.

Free Ostomates Journal

Ostomy surgery is often followed by grief and mourning for the loss you have experienced. As well as changes in your bodily function and appearance, you may have lost confidence in yourself and your abilities. But what exactly is confidence and why do we need it?

Confidence is not about what you can or can’t do. It’s what you think and believe you can or can’t do it.

This journal presents an opportunity to help you build confidence in yourself, your abilities, and your future.

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Speakers

Donna Butler

Donna Butler is a registered UKCP psychotherapist, Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR), trauma therapist and a registered nurse. She worked in the NHS for over 30 years at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals National Health Service (NHS). First as an A&E nurse, then as a therapist. During this time, she led services in supporting staff from multi-allied professions, including nurses, doctors, paramedics, police, and fire service personnel supporting them through wellbeing and mental health issues.

She is now a Consultant Psychotherapist and Director of Donna Butler Associates, providing specialist therapy for individuals and couples, as well as for organisations where she provides debriefing and post-incident support and training. She regularly presents at national conferences. You can contact Donna at db@donnabutlerassociates.com

Julie Jones

Julie qualified as an RGN in 1990. Since then, she has worked within the surgical colorectal field specialising in stoma care. Following a long spell of working in Intensive Care, Julie decided to focus her skills on caring for the patients with bowel dysfunction and became the stoma care nurse at Manchester Royal Infirmary.

Here Julie developed a huge range of skills, and her work included caring for neonates through to adults. She became an advisor for fistula management as well as stoma care. From here Julie went on to develop her skills within the Colorectal team at Macclesfield General and enjoyed the responsibility of being a colorectal support nurse as well as a stoma care nurse.

Here she completed her degree in nursing which focused on wound care, cancer management and colorectal care. Julie now works for Fittleworth Medical and specialises in bowel dysfunction offering advice for stoma care and rectal irrigation.