Mental Health Awareness Week 2020 WWF – Connect with Nature Over the last weeks, many of us have experienced stress, anxiety or isolation. But now that we can get back outdoors, we celebrate the positive impacts of nature on our
It is enough…
It is enough to sit, to think, to be to know your presence in the length of time that brought you here and to acknowledge your final passing… +++ Writing in Mum’s notebook Your words
Earth, Moon, Sky & Psychosis at 60! – Brighton Fringe 2020
Steve Walter, author and poet (first diagnosed with bipolar 23 years ago), is back, steering us through a good-humoured story of breakdown and recovery. If you’ve ever experienced mental ill-health, or know someone that has, and you care about the
Blog – Speaking at the University for Peace, Costa Rica, January 2019
University for Peace, Costa Rica, January 2019 It’s official, I read Gaia 2020 at The University for Peace. See the Times of Tunbridge Wells, dated Wednesday 9th January 2019. It was when we were finalizing arrangements for our trip to Costa
Voices – mental health survivors, carers, therapist, family and friends
Voices… tells the real-life stories of different people’s experiences of mental ill-health, from the point of view of sufferers and carers, family and friends spanning a range of ages and backgrounds, from mild depression to schizophrenia, from the younger woman
Blog – Friday 21st December 2019 – Mental Health First Aid
Mental health first-aid at work The House of Commons had been due to debate Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) last Wednesday (19th December) and specifically whether there should be a requirement on employers to provide mental health first-aid training, as
Blog – Friday 7th December 2018 – Planet Earth & Mental Health
Planet Earth and Mental Health As a mental health charity, we are aware of the significance that nature plays in helping people feel better and re-take control of their lives after a mental health crisis. Tunbridge Wells Mayor’s Charity 2018-2019,
University for Peace
I will be speaking to the luncheon club at the University for Peace in San Jose, Costa Rica next year, on mental health!!! More to follow…
Breaking the silence…
This website has been silent…until now! Click on the link below and you will be able to listen to a 20 minute interview with Kristin Walker, CEO and host of Mental Health News Radio, asking me about my experience of
I’ve recently written to William, Kate, Harry and Meghan…
I thanked them for their efforts to dispel the stigma associated with mental health, and took the opportunity to mention Gaia2020 and the mental health benefits of looking after the planet. I’ll let you know if I get a
Fast Train to Safety
I recently gave a presentation on my experience of mental health and ill-health to a local branch of IOSH (Institute of Occupational Safety & Health) Click link here A delightful audience, both warm and inquisitive and accepting – thank you!
World Bipolar Day 2018
Hey it’s World Bipolar Day – apparently the world’s bipolar too! There’s a lot of it about! Lots of info at the Bipolar Organisation I think all we really want is acceptance, the obliteration of stigma, and the understanding that this is