Last week was NHS Self-Care week (Nov 13-19). We were encouraged to stop and take some time to think about our health and wellbeing. The NHS provided a bunch of great resources to help with things including losing weight, cutting down on alcohol, stopping smoking, and making most of your pharmacist. All these guides are […]
9 things that would make Scotland the best place in the world to experience a mental health problem Ahead of World Mental Health Day (October 10) we at Mind Waves took some space to dream. Armed with a mountain of post-it notes, our Community Correspondents spent time thinking about what a mental wellbeing utopia would […]
The 2017 Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival is nearly upon us, and the theme this year is Reclaim. This theme has inspired the work of artists from Scotland and beyond. There will be over 300 events held across the country from 10 – 29 October. We have selected 7 (mostly) free highlights of the 2017 […]
Where are you from/ where do you live? My name is Maureen Gilmour and I live in Glasgow. Why are you interested in wellbeing? My interest in mental well being began in 1982 when I started nursing college. I worked in the mental health field for 34 years until my early retirement in 2016. I […]
Community Correspondent Marilena Balagianni offers a unique perspective on stress – that it can actually be a positive thing. We often forget or not even acknowledge that stress is a shared experienced. There is not a single person who has not experienced it. Yet, when we think of stress we usually perceive it as a […]
Something I’ve often felt shame about is my teeth. From the slightly crooked childhood teeth to the train track metal brace and the playground teasing. Which left me often feeling sad. Until they’re off and I’m a teenager . Then, wow! Compliments on how great my teeth look, so straight and white. I was always […]
Recently, it was National Cat Day (8 August). I celebrated by swiping everything off my desk and pushing my bum into people’s faces… OK, maybe not. The day got me thinking about how I’d love to have a pet again. A couple of years back my partner and I were cat foster parents. Not many […]
Art seems to be a recurring theme for me these last few months. Personally I’ve always been interested in art. As there is an increasing awareness of mental wellbeing issues in the press, and elsewhere, I guess the stories relating to how art plays a part in recovery really stand out to me. So far […]
A post from our Community Correspondent Marilena Balagianni When thinking about change the first thing that comes to my mind is how habitual our species is and how we fail to recognise this. Although we can change, it is more probable to keep doing the things we do not want to do , instead of […]
It’s been a year since the UK voted to leave the European Union. What a year it has been. There have been times I’ve felt like the world has been collapsing in on me under the weight of all the stuff going on. So, about a year or so ago I decided to stop reading […]
