Yesterday, I read the sad news that the Time To Change campaign will be coming to an end in England in March next year, as the Government has confirmed it will no longer be in a position to provide funding. Time To Change has been working for 15 years to improve attitudes around mental health, …
Category: Mental Health
“Mental Health for All”
It's #worldmentalhealthday, and the above is the theme set for this year by the World Federation for Mental Health. So I'm sitting with my morning coffee contemplating what action I can take to help achieve this.I am now reliably in the habit of taking action for my own mental health - a quiet, slow morning …
Quiet
Quiet...is a thing I'm trying to get better at lately. I'm really trying to find some time each day to be completely "still" (mentally, at least) - maybe relaxing by reading or cross-stitching, maybe going for a slow walk outside with no music or podcast in my ears, or maybe just lying on my yoga …
Where have I been?
Hello! I nearly didn't write a blog post this morning, and I'm writing this sentence still unsure of whether I'm actually going to hit the "Publish" button when I get to the end. I wanted the next thing I wrote to be really happy and positive and, honestly, I haven't felt very happy or positive …
Reflecting on Mental Health Awareness Week
"Finding time to be kind" This week was Mental Health Awareness Week, with this year's chosen theme being "kindness", and it's taken me all the way until Sunday to write anything on here about it. Which is odd, considering I usually have a fair bit to say about mental health. I suppose with the news …
Let’s talk about…Anxiety & Uncertainty
I had planned to keep my first "proper" post fairly lighthearted so as not to scare you all away from the outset. But I guess the whole point of a personal blog is to write about the stuff that's going on for me right now, so instead of some running chat or my top 10 …
Write More, Worry Less 