It’s Mental Health Awareness Week and I was thrilled to be interviewed by Bucks Breakfast Radio about my own story of dealing with major difficulties in my professional life that also lead to personal and physical challenges affecting my life in so many ways. How it felt, what changed and where I am now.
Click here for my interview. If it helps just one person, my work is done 😍
This year, unsurprisingly, following the long months of lockdown, it is reported that millions of us have turned to nature.
From research conducted on the impact of the pandemic on our mental health, it is shown that walking outside was one of the top coping strategies.
”Nature is so central to our psychological and emotional health, that it’s almost impossible to realise good mental health for all without a greater connection to the natural world. For most of human history, we lived as part of nature. It is only in the last five generations that so many of us have lived and worked in a context that is largely separated from nature.
Nature is our great untapped resource for a mentally healthy future.
Despite this, many of us are not accessing or benefitting from nature. Teenagers in particular appear to be less connected with nature and around 13% of UK households have no access to a garden. We want to challenge the disparities in who is and who isn’t able to experience nature. Nature is not a luxury. It is a resource that must be available for everyone to enjoy - as basic as having access to clean water or a safe roof over our heads.” - www.mentalhealth.org.uk
What will you do to connect with nature and nurture your mental health?