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Do you enjoy taking a walk to clear your head? I do, either to break up a day’s work or on any day for that matter. A study has found that going for a walk among trees, or where you can see the sky, or where you can hear birdsong, benefits city dwellers’ mental health. […]
A Drop of Rain I come from a dark stormy cloud, threatening the tranquillity around. Nothing special, insignificant but destructive in my path. I see the world below. Moving as normal, continuing as normal, being normal. But I am above this, alone. Threatening to fall and ruin normality. Threatening to bring sadness, gloom and disrupt. […]
Having a drink problem can happen to anybody. You might think ‘I am not that kind of person, I wasn’t brought up that way, I know how to control myself’. But in the right circumstances it could very easily be you. Life happens to all of us and everybody deals with things differently. But one […]
As part of the Time To Talk Day campaign I did a radio interview at BBC Radio Sheffield about mental health. It was part of the Talk to Talk Day run by Time to Change on the 1st February 2018. As a Time to Change Champion I was invited to talk to Paulette Edwards at […]
I was a lonely child. My brothers were a lot older than me so I was like an only child in a crowd. At school I was bullied constantly and I found it hard to fit in, having only a few friends and at times none at all. I was content to play alone and […]
On a grey October afternoon when my mood matched the weather I visited Renew 6, a cafe in Walkley where it is ‘a quiet space where it’s okay to not be okay’. I was made to feel welcome and invited to have a hot (free) drink and cake or biscuits and to join a table […]
Award winning Sheffield Flourish has come a long way in five years. Over 11,000 people have visited our digital wellbeing hub since its launch in 2017. Our volunteers support a diverse range of grassroots community activities from digital inclusion to arts and gardening. Sheffield Flourish is dedicated to supporting people with mental health conditions to […]
Some people may think sight loss is just losing your sight but there is so much more to it than that. More than you would imagine. Coming to terms with sight loss can be a very long process. Everybody deals with it differently, just like every other thing there is to deal with. For me […]
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My Father, who was born in Upper Silesia, Bielsko Biala, Poland, was made to fight for the Germans in 1942. He was an older man with a Polish family but the Germans were losing the war so the criteria for being conscripted in the army was broadened. He was a Volksdeutsche which means somewhere in […]
Sometimes my mind is a door I’d rather not open. Memories lay scattered like Polaroid pictures after a storm, gathering dust and grime on the cold hard ground. (Oh! Oh! Trouble, trouble, trouble! Sorry, that was the “bursting into Taylor Swift songs” part of my mind). I step on fragments of childhood as I make my […]
Figures recently released said that there were 5,965 recorded suicides in the UK in 2016. Men account for around 75% of suicides – suicide is the biggest killer of men aged under 50. The Sheffield Suicide Prevention Group is made up of people from a range of services and organisations who want to look at […]