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Mo MacKenzie: Shake It All About

I am a trained medical professional, but that doesn’t stop me having mental health problems. Just because it is ‘our job’, that doesn’t give me an invisible protective armour for mental fitness. So to protect myself, I exercise. That doesn’t mean joining a gym, being in a group or paying money, but purely physically moving … Continued

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 and my swimming dwindled away. In recent years I’ve wanted to swim again, but fear has held me back. I never had a positive body image and I have a lot of scars from self … Continued

Rob Barnett: Down on the Farm

Heeley City Farm is a great place to go to put a smile on your face. And what’s more, it’s free! The animals and friendly staff and volunteers offer a refreshing alternative to busy everyday life, even though the farm is so close to the city centre. The goats, pigs, horses and sheep are accompanied … Continued

Rob Barnett: Study Shows Benefit of Walking in Nature

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. … Continued

Natalie Beevers: Mindfulness

Today I am in a good place. I have a job I love, I am passionate about mindfulness and wellbeing, and I have loving family and friends. Four years ago it was a very different story. My marriage had broken down. I had a three year old child and I was alone, exhausted and emotionally … Continued

Becky Mairi Farrell: The Science of Wellness

There was not a spare chair to be found as we gathered at the Victoria Centre for this exciting event. Many people gathered to learn about the science of wellbeing, with the promise of inventing our own experiments as part of the evening. The evening was led by Caroline Wood from the British Science Association. … Continued

Rob Barnett: Gardening for Recovery Event

What better way to spend a summer afternoon than sitting outside in nature and creating works of art? Okay, it wasn’t quite as warm as it may have been. But this is an English summer so we can’t ask for too much. Around 20 people sat in the occasional shade of a large tree in … Continued

Rob Barnett: Shmapped and Sheffield Flourish walking tour

There is so much beauty to explore in Sheffield’s great outdoors, as the dozen people who took part in a photo walking tour found out. The tour was organised by Sheffield Flourish along with Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust, whose offices are close by one another on Stafford Road near Norfolk Heritage Park. The event … Continued

Becky Mairi Farrell: Flourishing with a Flourish!

On a warm, wet June afternoon, we gathered at the Oasis polytunnels for tea and seed sowing. Oasis is one of the community enterprises supported by Sheffield Flourish, who had just been voted Digital Charity of the Year! Flourish is truly flourishing, and helping those of us who contribute to it flourish as well. I … Continued

How burlesque and pole dancing helped me get my body confidence back

Last year, I experienced some health issues that included, but were not restricted to, being in pain and bleeding up to 21 days a month, if I didn’t bleed for 2 months straight. Doctors offered (half-heartedly) solutions, including a legendary “just get pregnant” which did not work, before telling me to deal with it and … Continued