Personal stories
It’s the creativity that saved me: Create & Recover
For April’s Stress Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness of the detrimental impact of stress and to help people…
Read More“Just knowing the Safe Haven is there to support me is such a relief!” – Vicky’s story
A new crisis centre called the Safe Haven has opened in Weston-super-Mare providing a safe space for people in acute…
Read MoreWhy Meghan’s words mean so much to me
Like so many, we’ve been absorbed by the appalling revelations shared by Meghan in her recent interview with Oprah Winfrey.…
Read More#2020 Reflections
As we come to the end of a year that’s been incredibly hard for everyone, we’ve decided to reflect and…
Read MoreWhy hope and courage?
We’re launching a new social media campaign celebrating #HopeandCourage. We believe that together hope and courage epitomises everything we do,…
Read MoreWhat hope and courage means to me
We’ve launched a new social media campaign celebrating #HopeandCourage. We believe that together hope and courage epitomises everything we do,…
Read MoreLost Button, Found Poet
About rediscovering your creative potential, with the help of a lost button.
Read MoreTHINK – a lifesaving message from John
To mark World Mental Health Day on Thursday 10 October, which this year focuses on suicide prevention, we tell the…
Read MoreMe, My Diagnosis and I
What’s it like to be told you have a mental illness or a personality disorder? For some, it brings relief…
Read MoreOn Identity: Self-Portrait as a Camera
When asked to write a self-portrait using an object as metaphor for the self, Wellbeing College attendee Mollie chose the camera as her object identity in her poem ‘We See Me A Little Different’.
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