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5 Top Tips For Healthy Mental Wellbeing Whilst Looking After Kids At Home
These are the strangest of times, and having the kids at home all day everyday is proving to add another layer of complexity to our days. “Are we doing enough by them?” “How do I control my temper on the toughest of mornings?” “I feel absolutely frazzled!” These are all things parents up and down…
How I’ve been coping with the new not-so-normal
Wow, where do I even start trying to write about the last few weeks! Firstly, I hope you are coping in these unchartered times and if you are not, don’t worry as I certainly have been struggling. When the reality of Coronavirus hit me, I headed straight to bed. I felt depressed and worried that…
Managing my mental health whilst pregnant during these difficult times
It’s fair to say, this wasn’t quite the pregnancy I’d imagined. I thought these next weeks would be spent celebrating with friends and family, enjoying my favourite places to eat (whilst I can still eat with both hands!), and shopping for the bits our baby is going to need. I’d also wanted to spend some…
The Mind Map: using football to help people navigate to mental health services
In June 1994, I was twelve, Wet, Wet, Wet were number one, and the World Cup in America was delivering some of the best kits football had ever produced – in particular the host nation’s faux-denim, starry number, which a lad in the year below me owned, elevating him to stratospheric levels of cool. Also…
How Hackney Laces is bringing a community together through football
9 years ago, I set up a football community for girls after being approached by a 14 year-old in my local park telling me she had no where to play. After inquiring to a number of organisations, local councils, and schools, I discovered that there wasn’t a place for teenage girls to play. So, Hackney…
