Tag: Mental Health Awareness Week 2021

Mental Wealth

As today is the final day of Mental Health Awareness Week 2021 let’s finish on a positive note. Mental wealth is a term that covers both mental health and wellbeing. All too often when we talk about mental health, we associate it with negative stigmas. What do you think of when you hear the term…

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Access to Nature

The mental health benefits of immersing ourselves in our natural environment via green spaces and the countryside are becoming increasingly understood by health care professionals giving us green prescriptions as well as the average person. These natural environments have a huge benefit to our psychological and emotional wellbeing, this has been highlighted throughout the last…

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Is body image a barrier to nature?

Mental Health Awareness Week’s theme this year is nature so lets delve deeper into what this means to each of us and how it can benefit our mental health. Mark Rowland, Chief Executive of the Mental Health Foundation, said:   “Our role each year for Mental Health Awareness Week is to start a national conversation on the…

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Mental Health Resources

Throughout the pandemic many of us have struggled with the added pressures lockdown brought but as lockdown lifts we will see many of us suffering with mental health issues with the new normal. It’s ok to not be ok. We need to realise that our feelings are justified even if it feels like everyone around…

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Mental Health Awareness Week

Mental Health Awareness Week for 2021 runs from the 10th to the 16th May and this year’s theme is nature! The week is lead by the Mental Health Foundation, their website gives details of what the week is about: “The evidence is clear that access to nature is crucial for our mental health and millions…

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