This article is a special submission by Best Selling Author - Naomi Fryers. She has recently launched her book - A Very Long Way which is based on her personal struggles with mental health. Naomi Fryers is a #writer, mental health survivor and #advocate, #TedX Speaker and #author of A Very Long Way which will be #released on World Mental Health day. … Continue reading Voice for Women’s Mental Health – Naomi Fryers→
A novel way to express my creative self! I’ve always thought of myself as a creative person, and I’ve always been told I’m a creative person, but I had never thought much about what that really meant. I just did what felt good and what came naturally to me. When I was younger it … Continue reading Self-Healing through Creative Writing→
'Creatful is a brand new community company based in Hampshire, England. They are passionate about creativity and look to use it to improve wellbeing and social inclusion in local communities. Creatful was born out of founder Nancy Fellows’s passion for bettering communities and her love of creative pursuits. Through what she learnt through her own experience … Continue reading A Community Company that Promotes Individual Creativity→
Peter Quarry is a multi-award-winning psychologist and speaker whose book, If I Were You – A psychologist puts himself on the couch is available in all good bookstores and online. LinkedIn: @PeterQuarry | www.peterquarry.com Socrates famously said “an unexamined life is not worth living”. He’ll be happy to know that I fully agree with him! As a psychologist of … Continue reading The Mental Health Benefits of a doing a ‘Life Review’→
My painting (pastels) “hope” I won a bill Pringle award for it (rethink) earlier this year. So as I look into the future I always try to focus on the light, I need that light to know there is always hope. The rocks symbolise how it can often feel to me to be in constant … Continue reading hope by Samantha B→
Not a Robot I am not a obot,someone else has control. Darkness has entrapped my soul. The mind has been programmed It has been jammed. Feeling traumatised , with horrible flash backs They are in disguise,racing past my eyes. Oh why, oh why did I get this nasty surprise? Did it have to be that … Continue reading Not a Robot by Kirstie Grainger→