Progressive muscle relaxation is a practice that helps to reduce high emotion in your body by having you tense and then relax every muscle. Take some time out for your wellbeing to enjoy this practice, guided by Dr Claire O’Driscoll Lawrie of St Patrick’s Mental Health Services. For more wellbeing activities and practices, subscribe to […]
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What a difficult but wonderful task! Our members try to sum up Grow Mental Health in one word for World Mental Health Week 2021!
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In the last step of this wonderful series, Seasoned Grower Jonathan Mullen recounts living with schizophrenia, isolation, bipolar, and depression, and explains how he used Step 12, ‘We carried Grow’s message to others in need’ to help others on his journey.
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Seasoned Grower Carina tells us about how her health and wellbeing was impacted by family issues, suicide, and grief, and how she used Step 11; ‘We grew daily closer to maturity’ to get her life back on track.
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In this special Pride Edition of our 12-Step series, Becky Harold shares her empowering story of transitioning gender with Síle Tracey and discusses how Grow Mental Health and the LGBTQI+ community helped her along the way.
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Hussain Manawer, a mental health campaigner, shares his own experience of depression.
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At some point in your life you’ll probably be touched by male* suicide. It’s now the biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK with 12 men taking their own lives every day. In her challenging TEDx talk, Steph Slack shares her personal story of how losing her uncle to suicide caused her to
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The NYCI Youth Health Programme has created this video to highlight issues experienced by young men around mental health. In 2018 the National Youth Health Programme (NYHP) conducted a rapid needs assessment among the youth work sector in Ireland to investigate ‘Young Men’s Health’. From the assessment according to youth workers anger (88%), anxiety (86%)
Alice, Jigsaw Youth Advisory Panel member and Sinead, Jigsaw Clinician talk about the effects of stress and how to support a friend who is stressed.
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Ricky, aged 24, talks about going to Jigsaw for help with his mental health.
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Úna, Jigsaw clinician, talks about exercise and mental health in the context of social distancing.
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