Looking out there on the internet you see lots of different thought about Mental Health First Aid, positive and negative. Here’s a few things I think you need to know,Continue reading “Five things you need to know about Mental Health First Aid – Whoever you are.”
Author Archives: Sarah
New Mental Health First Aid Course from MHFA England
Mental Health First Aid has been around for over 20 years now, and MHFA England is part of an international community of organisations delivering the training across the globe. TheContinue reading “New Mental Health First Aid Course from MHFA England”
Unconditional Love – Pets and Mental Health
I am not doing too well at the moment. If you asked me over the past couple of decades what helps my mental health – high up there on theContinue reading “Unconditional Love – Pets and Mental Health”
LGBTQ+ Mental Health – Working with Happy Valley Pride
As I gradually return to face to face work, I’m remembering the pros and cons of training to a room of real life humans. Most of the cons are toContinue reading “LGBTQ+ Mental Health – Working with Happy Valley Pride”
What to do when hope feels lost.
CW: Suicide, Suicidal Ideation, Self Harm I saw a raft of posts the other day from Andy’s Man Club, with the devastating news that one of their group facilitators hadContinue reading “What to do when hope feels lost.”
All by myself
Yet again I couldn’t get myself in gear to write my piece for Mental Health Awareness Week – but here we are anyway. The theme this year was loneliness. SomethingContinue reading “All by myself”
Online vs. Face to Face
One of the reasons I don’t blog as much as I would like to is that I often don’t know where to start. Then when I do – I don’tContinue reading “Online vs. Face to Face”
God grant me the serenity
The world is a lot right now isn’t it? Maybe it always is. Always has been. Just some have the privilege at different times to not be affected by, orContinue reading “God grant me the serenity”
How Refreshing – Update your MHFA Skills
At the beginning of 2020, just before everything changed, I ran my first MHFA Refresher course. A small group, from a few different organisations, but enough to get a realContinue reading “How Refreshing – Update your MHFA Skills”
Thoughts on friendship
Listening to a recent Brene Brown podcast on friendship today gave me, as they say, “all the feels”. Friendship is such a difficult but important topic. Connection. Love. I don’tContinue reading “Thoughts on friendship”