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Good Morning – A poem about anxiety

  This week on the blog we’re sharing a poem about anxiety from our longtime community correspondent, Angela McCrimmon. I hope it brightens your Monday morning! Her words are below.   Good Morning Good morning, hello, yes how do you do? I believe we’ve already met, I’m the one who lives inside of you, Lest […]

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I SING LIKE WHITMAN – A poem from Derek

This week on the blog we’re sharing another poem from our poetry and life writing workshop a few weeks ago. Derek wrote this poem in response to the prompt, ‘write a love letter to yourself’. He was inspired by Leaves of Grass, a long poem by Walt Whitman that we focused on in a previous […]

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Warts and All: A poem from Sarah-Louise

This week, we’re sharing a poem written by Sarah-Louise Kelly. Sarah-Louise is a writer who co-facilitated a poetry workshop with us a few weeks ago as part of our workshop series in collaboration with Healthy Minds. Sarah-Louise led a discussion about boundaries, life-writing and vulnerability, and also came up with a creative prompt for our […]

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A poem from Matt

This week on the blog we’re sharing a poem written by our Community Correspondent, Matt. This piece was written for a friend on his birthday, and is called Happy Birthday to Michael Williams. Matt was also kind enough to include the translation of this poem into Mandarin. His poem is below.  Happy Birthday to Michael […]

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Breathing and anxiety – words from Hilda

  This week on the blog we’re continuing with our content theme of anxiety. Hilda Campbell from COPE Scotland sent us a great post that utilises the prompt in a great way; by exploring the complex nature of anxiety, describing a variety of causes of anxious feelings, and providing some resources from COPE Scotland that […]

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New series: Menopause and mental health

This week on the blog we’re excited to be launching a new series that focuses on menopause and the ways it can affect your mental health. Over the next few weeks we’ll be spotlighting three Mind Waves podcast episodes, hosted by our resident podcaster Rosie, and featuring three women talking about their experience with the […]

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Self-care: corporate scam or political act?

This week, we’re taking a look at the concept of self-care and the ways that its definition has changed since the words inception.  The concept of self-care originated in the 1950s among the medical community. The concept of person-centred care was becoming popular in medicine, and medical staff began to think about ways to improve […]

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