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‘Mental Health is a Universal Human Right’ | World Mental Health Day 2023

‘Mental Health is a Universal Human Right’ | World Mental Health Day 2023

This year\'s theme emphasises the importance of looking after yourself, and those around you, no matter your background or beliefs.

World Mental Health Day aims to create awareness and honour those battling every single day, and the best way to tackle this issue is by allowing everyone to have a voice in this all-important conversation.

Unfortunately, the number of those seeking treatment has grown at alarming rates worldwide, which was only exacerbated by events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. In England, the BMA (British Medical Association) has revealed that rates of ‘probable mental disorder’ in young people aged 7-16 increased from 1 in 8 to more than 1 in 6 from 2017 to 2022. For those aged 17-19 years old, the rates increased from 1 in 10 to 1 in 4!

 

Looking After our Mental Health

The Mental Health Foundation are a charity with many useful resources online with further information - https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/explore-mental-health

 

Here are some of their top tips:

  • Connect with others - try not to isolate yourself, it is important to find the time to keep in touch with friends and family.  You can also make sure to check on your friends; a simple text message can make all the difference
  • Be active - find an activity you enjoy, and try to do it every day! There are many online fitness apps and videos you could try, whether you like to exercise alone or with someone else they are easy to fit around your day.
  • Spend more time doing what you enjoy - you could try a new hobby, or develop an existing one. It is important to do things you enjoy, whether that means getting creative and crafting or playing a new game. This is also a great way to connect with your loved ones away from screens.

 

Important Reads this Mental Health Day

Reading is the one of the best forms of self-care, and it allows you to slow down and ground yourself in the present. Reading allows you to connect with characters in exciting new worlds, and also with the author behind the title.

Here is a list of handpicked titles you must read this week, or month, to help celebrate World Mental Health Day.

 

The Power of Being Known: A Heart-Centered Journey Connecting to Self, Earth, Lineage, and Love

By Dr. Sofia Costa

The heart’s technology is more advanced than a cell phone and is the first organ to be created while you’re in your mother’s womb - chosen to be first for a Divine reason. Connecting to the heart daily is the key to gaining access to the truth, wisdom, love, and healing you are worthy of receiving.

To know yourself begins by knowing that you are one cell, one of many, and together, co-create your heart and entire Being. Choosing to know yourself from deep within and allowing yourself to be known opens the heart to be seen, loved, heard, felt, and supported in the present moment– which means you get to experience the richness of life wholeheartedly.

This book shines a light on what’s been hidden underneath the surface and gently leads you on an inner exploration for you to feel safe and empowered to alchemize fears, integrate a new way of Being, embody the truth and power of who you are, and love your Self (your cells) from the inside-out. This book can be read over and over again to support you in every phase of your heart-centered journey.

So, let’s begin!

Be still, feel, ask, listen, breathe, receive,

and know.

– Dr. Sofia Costa

 

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