Mental Health Awareness Week and Resilience

Because it’s Mental Health Awareness Week, it feels like a good time to share the reason for my blog being very quiet over the last year or so.

It’s that I’ve been working really hard on something that helps young people to reconnect with their resilience, confidence and wellbeing. Lots of young people in schools have tried it out now. Their feedback is helping to refine it into an even more useful resource for schools. And this is just the beginning.

There’s so much talk about “building” resilience these days. But if you already had a rock solid, awesome house to live in, would you start building another house on top of it?

I don’t help young people to “build” resilience. I help them to discover it within themselves. It’s always there. That way it’s theirs for life, with nothing to do, remember or practice.

Speaking from personal experience, this one discovery has made all the difference when it comes to my own experience of mental health. For years I was looking in the wrong place, which kept me suffering (mostly in silence). These days it looks so very different.

If this sounds interesting, keep checking back here, or have a look around the website, to learn more or to access free resources for schools.

You are awesome, and I promise I’m not just saying that to “build you up”.

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