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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This week on the blog we are sharing an extract of a long poem written by Derek Read, one of our community correspondents. Derek came to our recent creative non-fiction writing workshops and contributed some beautiful poetry, as well as trying his hand at personal writing. At these workshops, Derek shared his long poem, ‘Journey […]
The second animation that was created with our funding from See Me Scotland is available to watch on YouTube now. Click here to watch the animation. We were awarded this funding by See Me Scotland’s anti-stigma arts fund back in April of 2021 and you can click here to read the blog post announcing this […]
This week on the blog I’d like to draw your attention to a wonderful resources designed to support wellbeing during lockdown.With the possibility of more COVID restrictions being put into place, it’s important to take the time to check in with yourself and look after your mental and physical wellbeing wherever possible. Jenny from Glasgow […]
This week on the blog, we’re happy to be sharing a wonderful poem written by Angela, one of our Community Correspondents, on the theme of resilience. Her piece is shared below. You say “You’re so resilient” but I wish that you could see, My “resilience” is a symptom of my PTSD, Each time I fall, […]
Hi! It’s Maddy here, the new Digital Media intern for Mind Waves. I’ll be running the social media accounts at Mind Waves and writing blog posts to update you all on positive mental health news whilst also sharing the personal stories of our wonderful Community Correspondents. I feel very lucky to have been chosen for […]
A poem from our Community Correspondent John Dane The last ten years have gone so fast Now’s the time to look back at the past What have you achieved as you’re moving along? Maybe a story, maybe a song It’s good to let your feelings go Talk about good things or go to a show […]
Our Community Correspondent John Dane writes beautifully about the experience of being in hospital I had a hospital appointment today They say I’m going to have to stay An ulcer on my foot has been giving me jipe I hope it’s only for a couple of nights I’ve been admitted to ward 11D I hope […]
