Jul 30, 2019 | anxiety, coaching, Depression, mental health, resilient, sports, support, teamwork
I am reflecting on the helping athletes succeed workshop last night and am so very grateful for all that attended and contributed to discussions, offered opinions and shared their coaching struggles when supporting athletes with mental illness. There are so few...
Jul 17, 2019 | anxiety, fear, mental health, resilient, support
When I started this talk, it was just after my auntie had passed away, Jamie Denyer had made me tear up with his inspirational talk and he’d had a huge response. My nerves were uncontrollable, I was shaking, sweating, stammering and bang I was on stage not sure...
Jul 16, 2019 | anxiety, Bullying, children, choice, Depression, mental health, support, teamwork
More photos from last week’s Think Tank event in Swansea. The topic for debate was the issues faced by young people in Wales experiencing mental ill health. A huge privilege to be part of a discussion with experienced, passionate people who turned up with one...
Jul 13, 2019 | choice, coaching, mental health, support, teamwork
Have we lost person to person connectivity so much so that we’ve lost the ability to treat people like people? I have so many conversations with people living with mental ill health about being treated as their diagnosis that it wasn’t a surprise that it...
Jul 11, 2019 | anxiety, fear, mental health, resilient, support
I have had this ‘low key’ asthma all my life and have been lucky to go as long as four years without any asthma attacks at all. I do not have ‘bad’ asthma, like some suffer from. It doesn’t trouble me day-to-day. But I always carry a pump, my medication for my asthma,...
Jun 17, 2019 | anxiety, Bullying, children, Depression, mental health, support, teamwork
I am very excited to be the lead panelist at the first ‘Climbing to the summit’ discussion around the mental health crisis affecting young people in Wales. We are opening up the floor for professionals, young people living with mental ill health, parents,...
