Finding Isla: A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss, and Recovery
When I first became pregnant with my daughter, Isla, it was not the fairytale I had expected. I was 22...
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Jessica Gibson: Top Ten Things That Help Me on a Bad Day
Top 10 things that help me on a bad day: A bath - so soothing to dip my head underwater...
Becky Mairi Farrell: Swimming - From Fear to Freedom
After the horrors of school swimming lessons, I came to enjoy swimming in my late teens. Then life got busy...
Stacey Anderson: Two poems - The Sea & Untitled
The Sea I'm on a beach Alone The warmth on my skin The sea is far away I turn My...
Becky Mairi Farrell: What My New Year’s Resolutions Say About Me
As a child, I used to take the New Year’s Resolution thing quite seriously. On New Year’s Eve, amid the...
Community Stories: What works for you?
What do you do to help your mental health? It could be anything. It might even be something you hadn’t...
Ruth Durkin: All I want for Christmas is you
In the last two months of my pregnancy in 2017, I had prenatal depression. This meant that in addition to...
Peter Shaw: How I’ve Taken Back Control of My Story
Having struggled with both social anxiety disorder and depression for many years without being properly diagnosed and therefore not understanding...
Juliet Mcdonald: For My Mother
I have always found that writing things down when I am upset, grieving, etc. really helps me to come to...
Community Stories: Death and Grief
Death and grief was our theme for September, marking World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10th. Here the Sheffield Flourish...
Sarah Cardwell: How blogging helps
Just 2 years ago I had one of my more serious breakdowns, leading to a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder...