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Mental Health Awareness Week 2023

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Mental Health Awareness Week 2023

It is Mental Health Awareness Week 2023 this week and this year the theme is Anxiety. The aim of Mental Health Awareness week is to open up conversation with others about important topics and support one another by sharing experiences and tools. Anxiety is an emotion that we have all

Are you feeling lonely?

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Are you feeling lonely?

It's mental health awareness week this week (9-15 May). This is a week that the charity The Mental Health Foundation uses to raise awareness of a different mental health experience each year. This year the focus is on loneliness. Along with many other emotional and mental health struggles, it's a

The struggle is real

The struggle is real

A recent BBC News article reported a huge rise in severe mental health difficulties in children and young people [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-60197150] in the past year, sadly this is a statistic that is very true and close to home. Over the past year we have seen

Learning to be vulnerable

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Learning to be vulnerable

In this guest blog friend of Phase, Rebekah Bacon, talks to us about vulnerability - what it is, when we notice it and how we can benefit from being more vulnerable with people. A little while ago, I sat down with Kieran (the director of Phase) to talk about vulnerability.

Looking ahead and moving forward...

Looking ahead and moving forward...

Our Director, Kieran, takes stock of what we have ahead of us as a nation (and town of Hitchin) and offers practical advice for this last stretch of lockdowns and restrictions... It was exciting news from PM Boris Johnson as he announced the roadmap for the way out of lockdown

Quarantine Musings...

Quarantine Musings...

This week the Phase Vice-Chair John Maguire tells us about how he has been coping with lockdown, quarantine and all things WFH... My eldest son John lives in Malta and fourth time lucky we were able to visit him at the beginning of November and then had to quarantine for

Mentoring Online

Mentoring Online

At Phase we are passionate about equipping children and young people so that they don't just survive but thrive as they journey through life. We love to help children and young people build good wellbeing and resilience. At Phase we have the opportunity to do this in a number of

How have you got on?

How have you got on?

At a recent On Your Mark’s workshop run by Phase with Year 6 students we asked students to show, on a spectrum of extremely excited to extremely worried, how they were feeling about starting at Secondary school next year. I was talking to the students who were extremely excited.

Start how you mean to go on

Start how you mean to go on

New school year, new start. A new start to me often feels like starting a new exercise book when I was at school, where I would promise to myself to keep this one neat, clean and tidy. Sadly it was something that I rarely managed. But I’m old and

Top tips to build resilience

Top tips to build resilience

Resilience is a bit of a buzz word right now, but what is it, why is it needed and most importantly, how do we build it? In this blog post I want to answer these questions and give you 10 great tips on how to build your resilience whether your

More than an Emoji...

More than an Emoji...

There are in total 2,823 emojis- I definitely couldn’t tell you what they all are! Most of us, I imagine probably use emojis when texting – whether it’s a smile, heart, thumbs up! I found out this week that you can even create an emoji to now look

November Wellbeing Challenge 2018

November Wellbeing Challenge 2018

We have finally reached the penultimate month in 2018 and if you feel anything like I do then this year has flown by. A new month brings with it a brand-new challenge. The focus of our challenge this month is all about reflection. Normally the end of the year brings

July Wellbeing Challenge 2018

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July Wellbeing Challenge 2018

July is here!!!! This month's challenge is to keep a gratitude journal. For the next 31 days write down between 3 - 5 things you are grateful for. We had a go of this back in 2016 just for a week. If you want to have a read of how

How I won even though I failed

How I won even though I failed

This post is supposed to be all about how I got on with the June Wellbeing challenge. I write them, I decide what we're doing, I even Instagrammed it and this is the point where I show you some amazing artwork 😳but he’s the thing I didn’t do

Lillian's Space .. Peer Support

Lillian's Space

Lillian's Space .. Peer Support

We have the wonderful Lillian taking over the blog again and this time she's sharing her experience as a Youth Mental Health Champion. If you missed her last post check it out here [http://blog.phase-hitchin.org/untitled-6/]. During the last academic year, I trained to be a Youth Health

Creativity

When did you last do something really creative? What activities help you use your imagination? What does creativity mean to you? I think creativity can sometimes feel a bit exclusive - like you're either a creative person, or you're not. Maybe you can't identify with the artist or the potter

Good news

This month has been all about ditching the negative and replacing it with positive. I hope you've found it helpful and shared some of the interesting articles you've found along the way. Here are just 3 of my favs. * A story of kindnes [https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/mom-is-moved-to-tears-when-older-boys-approach-her-adopted-son-at-the-park/] , * Care BnB

Shine a light on ... Anxiety (part 1)

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Shine a light on ... Anxiety (part 1)

Everyone I know has anxiety. Not the kind of anxiety that you feel before you speak in public, or when you see a massive spider scuttling towards you. I mean, the kind of anxiety that hangs over your life, that is disproportionate to your circumstances and that prevents you from

May Wellbeing Challenge

May Wellbeing Challenge

Ditch the news April Showers bring May flowers. Spring is time of hope and new life, where things that looked like they were dead have new life. Yellow is normally the colour that is associated with spring but with the invention of things like social media and 24hr news outlets

March Wellbeing Challenge 2018

March Wellbeing Challenge 2018

Welcome to March, How did we get to the third month of the year already? Your challenge for this month is all about honesty. For the next 30 days be honest about your thoughts and feelings. I deliberated a lot about setting this as a challenge because I'm pretty sure