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My Mental Wellness

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Time to Talk from  Time to Change  is a great reminder that this should be the norm not the  exception.  We should talk to our friends and family about our thoughts and feelings and our mental wellness.   It doesn't matter where or when we talk.  It can be a chat over a cup of tea or coffee with one person or in a room full of people who are there to talk.  It doesn’t even have to be in the same room.  It can be  on the phone or Skype /facetime/Alexa (or however you video call).     What Time to talk reminds me is that lots of people are still nervous to talk about their mental wellness.  I'm deliberately using the term mental wellness because although we all have mental health when I use the words “mental health” people often hear “mental health issues”.  Our mental wellness or  lets  even say mental fitness is something that changes as often as our physical fitness.  I had a seven-year holiday from the gym and my physical fitness certainly suffered.  I hope that I
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Lets get talking

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I'm going to attempt my first blog.  Each month I'm going to blog about different things to do with Wellbeing.  This month I'm focussing on encouraging people to talk about how they feel.  I'm going to aim at small blogs on various topics which bring out things that I've tried or you could try.  Apps or books or stories to help you reflect on changes you can make to help you have a Wellbeing Space in your life.  Time to Talk is an amazing campaign that encourages people to have a conversation about mental health and the way they are feeling. I've talked to a lot of people over the years who struggle to talk to other people though.  It's just not something they feel comfortable doing.  It led me to taking a look at what other options there are to talking and I found  woebot .  It's a great app on your phone where you text rather than talk.  And it's to a computer that's been built by psychologists so you can talk without talking.  What
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