The theme for this week’s Mental Health Awareness Week is ‘nature’ – so I have devised five short challenges to get you connected and improve your wellbeing in the process. Are you ready?
Mental Health Awareness Week is run by the Mental Health Foundation and this year’s theme is nature.
The week runs from May 10-16 and, with that in mind, it got me thinking about the small decisions we can take to protect and nurture our own mental health.
I decided to put together a five-day challenge to encourage people to do a small thing each day to look out for their own mental health.
Nature is important for us both physically and psychologically and it can be hard to cultivate your own mental health without that connection to the outside world.
Challenges
And I wanted these small challenges to be something that people can do without it taking up too much of their time.
It’s important to get outside too, especially with so much in-house isolation having been necessary over the past 14 months. So these challenges will be great if you can integrate them into your normal day.
Over the week, I want to encourage you to explore your link with nature and to create healthy habits and routines which people will hopefully feel like doing more of as lockdown restrictions ease and the summer months arrive.
Good luck
Look out for each daily challenge before 9am, live on our Facebook channel and starting on Monday 10 May.
Good luck and please let me know how you get on in the comment below or on pour Facebook page.
Nature…here we come! #MHAW
* Find out more about Mental Health Awareness Week at the Mental Health Foundation
* Learn about Wellbeing Therapy Solutions’ Mental Health First Aid Courses.
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