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Award-winning Author, Poet, Mental Health Advocate, and the Inaugural Youth Poet Laureate of Stamford (2022-23).
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Connor Gates: Anxiety and Depression…
The following article is written by Connor Gates, another mental health advocate. I encourage you to read the article in full, and check...
Oct 24, 20214 min read
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Burnout: Shining some Light on the Silent Obstacle we all Face
Only this week have I realised quite how much I have on my plate. I like to keep busy – you know I do. Nonetheless, sometimes, there are...
Sep 27, 20214 min read
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The Role of Colour
Colour plays a very important role in almost every aspect of our lives. We come to associate different colours and styles with certain...
Aug 31, 20212 min read
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Mental Health Miniseries: Part 3
As part of this mental heath interview series, I asked participants to take their pick of six questions out of twenty, and then answer...
Jul 31, 20212 min read
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Interview miniseries: Jennie Verleg
As part of this mental heath interview series, I asked participants to take their pick of six questions out of twenty, and then answer...
Jun 29, 20214 min read
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – A Brief Exploration
A Little Foreword. I’m not going to lie, this post was one of the hardest to write so far. Whilst I like the challenge, and the thought...
May 21, 20213 min read
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Alcohol and Coping
I did have another topic planned this week, but decided against it, because I was thinking, in between sips of my pink gin, how alcohol...
May 8, 20212 min read
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A Person with a Disability?
As some of you may know from reading My Story, I have a physical disability alongside the other issues that I have described. Up for...
Apr 10, 20213 min read
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My Experience: DNA Lightup
I would say I am a spiritual person – open minded about all the possibilities that the world has to offer. That said, I’m not into...
Mar 27, 20214 min read
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My Story
Through speaking to Melanie Pledger and several other people, I have come to realise that I have never told you much about my mental...
Mar 11, 20214 min read
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How to Maintain Friendships During the Pandemic
The pandemic is not going anywhere fast, and apart from all that we are not allowed to do, the thing that is really getting to me is the...
Jan 29, 20214 min read
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Journaling – Your Unexpected Support
From my experience, journaling automatically gets dubbed stereotypically as a teenage girl whirling away the afternoon, writing away. The...
Jan 9, 20212 min read
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New Year Update
Hello, everyone! I hope you all had a great Christmas, despite everything. Onwards and upwards into the New Year – hopefully it’s an...
Jan 2, 20213 min read
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My Guest Post with Elizabeth Holland: Tackling Six Stigmas of Depression Head On
I hope you’re all doing well, or as best as you can in the current situation. Earlier this month, I wrote a guest post for the brilliant...
Nov 21, 20201 min read
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How You Could Look after Yourself in the Time of Covid – 19
Times are different, as they have been for a while. By now, if you’re like me and most of the rest of the world, you just want things to...
Oct 30, 20204 min read
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The Key to being Mindful
Let me ask you – what does mindfulness mean to you? A mind full of hot air? A mind full of sawdust, perhaps? Wait just a minute –...
Oct 24, 20205 min read
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10 Mental Health related Books You Should Read!
It’s cold, your night off, and all you want to is spend the night snuggled in comfort. This might be your favourite blanket, fleece – or...
Oct 17, 20206 min read
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Feeling SAD as the nights draw in?
We have arrived at that time of year. That time of year where it seems like everyone around you lets out a – sometimes obligatory – sigh...
Oct 10, 20206 min read
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Welcome
Hey, you. Yes, you. What does mental health mean to you? Some people seem to stop when they realise that health is contradictory to what...
Oct 3, 20202 min read
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