This is My Place Children’s Mental Health Awareness week: the focus is on the importance of belonging: helping children and young people feel safe, valued and supported in their everyday environments. The aim of the…
“Ask for help.” It’s the battle cry of mental health professionals everywhere.It’s what mothers say when they’re overwhelmed.It’s what partners say when they’re exhausted from carrying everything alone. Just ask for help. But here’s the…
Every year, Teen Suicide Prevention Week invites us to talk about youth mental health, and rightly so. In South Africa, suicide remains one of the leading causes of death among young people, and thousands of…
We live in a world where almost everything we see online looks real – sometimes too real. Perfect faces. Perfect bodies. Perfect lives. Viral videos that seem impossible. News stories that feel shocking. Voices that…
Living with Schizophrenia is not easy. It is not something that can be wished away. As we have just celebrated awareness of Schizophrenia in the last few days, we realize that for many people living…
“Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried but you’ve actually been planted.” – Christine Caine The past two years and even recent months, may have been experienced as a…
By William Ernest Henley Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I…
Winter time is fire-gazing time for me. As I sat by the fireplace this winter, enjoying the warmth of the fire, I gained a new appreciation for this energy. It reminded me of how as human…