Crisis Helplines
Samaritans. To talk about anything that is upsetting you, you can contact Samaritans 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. You can call 116 123 (free from any phone), email jo@samaritans.org or visit some branches in person. You can…
Discrimination, Prejudice, Bias, Bigotry, Sexism, Ageism, Difference
When will it end? In the late 1970’s to mid 1980’s HIV was a disease associated primarily with the male gay community; in the same way, albeit it for a much shorter period of time, the Coronavirus was associated with…
The Benefits of Meditative Breathing
“Until you’ve survived Covid-19, the concept of ‘Just Breathe’ is something many people will never understand.” This is a statement from a nurse on the frontline who ended up being a patient herself after having contracted the Coronavirus six months…
Gaslighting: Understand, Identify, and Recover
You may now be very familiar with the term gaslighting. In recent years, and with credit to a problematic political climate, gaslighting has become mainstream, a word used in headlines around the world to describe how seeds of doubt are…