Meet our Community Correspondents: Marilena Balagianni
Where are you from/ where do you live? I am originally from Athens , Greece but I now live in heart-warming Glasgow. Why are you interested in wellbeing? Who is not interested in ameliorating his/her life? The thing is to understand that everything is manageable and changeable. I would like to reach out to others […]
How does bed affect your wellbeing? Our next theme
It’s amazing that we spend about a third of our lives in bed (and often much more or less than that), but we don’t talk about it much. Our relationships with our beds is so strongly connected with our mental wellbeing. We want to hear your stories, experiences and opinions. Here are some ideas, but […]
When I’m feeling anxious, just the noise of people eating infuriates me
A poem from our Community Correspondent David Bradley Food It will soon be dinner time oh no what a dread if only they knew the thoughts in my head, with total strangers it’s not so bad, with family members it’s rather sad, I know who chews what oh no what a thought, crunch crunch, slurp […]
Using graphics to talk about mental health online
This week we ran the last in our current series of social media workshops. This session looked at using images and graphics to get your message across. Thank you to everyone who came along. You came up with some great ideas ( which we’ll share soon). If you couldn’t make it (or even if you […]
It took me out of the environment, I could be a different person
An interview with our Community Correspondent Robert Terry Listen to the interview at #100faces here As part of the @100facesvoices project, a group of our Community Correspondents interviewed each other to create audio stories about their lives. Robert chose to talk about caring for his mum, and how joining an extras agency has helped him […]
Can you travel from Barcelona to New Zealand for 20 euros?
A review of @Declarationfest from @carriejwebb Declaration was a Festival of Health and Human Rights. Film screenings, debates, performances and workshops were inspired by each article of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 13 – Right to Freedom of Movement “No one in the gutter ever hit me. The people who did me […]
A tribute to Sandy Hutchison, award-winning poet
A poem from our Community Correspondent Derek Read This poem was written after I attended the funeral of Alexander (Sandy) Hutchison, the award-winning Scottish poet and translator who died in November 2015 after a short illness. I knew him well through the poetry scene, as the partner of a member of my Quaker meetings and […]
I am me: an unsettling look at disability hate crime @declarationfest
A review from @CarrieJWebb Last week, Rosie (Mind Waves Project Manager) offered me the chance to attend Declaration, A Festival of Health and Human Rights. Film screenings, debates, performances and workshops were inspired by each article of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. “Don’t turn away and pretend you can’t see. I am who […]
There will never be a statue for me. Celebrate the invisible women on #IWD2016
Community Correspondent Lorna Cosh speaks up for every invisible woman. This is the Mind Waves contribution to Women’s Protest 2015: a celebration of 100 years since the Glasgow rent strikes. It’s International Women’s Day on March 8. We’d like to celebrate all the women who’s stories have never been heard. Some of the women who […]
Beautiful images of spring from @stargazer1210
There’s something about the first signs of spring that can make us feel hopeful even on our most difficult days. Laura McGlinn, aka @stargazer1210 took these beautiful photographs that show spring in Scotland at its finest. Laura is the creator of the Wellbeing Signpost: a facebook page that focuses on the things that make us feel […]
