This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, and the theme this year is loneliness. Loneliness is a theme I notice coming up a lot more in my work since the coronavirus pandemic. So many ways of connecting socially were lost and changed, and for many people it has not been as simple as picking up where they left off. People have moved, life circumstances have changed, some networks have closed and not reformed…there are many reasons that the ways we reached out before might no

The theme of Mental Health Awareness Week 2021 is Connecting with Nature. Nature is central to our psychological and emotional health. It’s almost impossible to realise good mental health without a connection to the natural world. For most of human history, we lived as part of nature. It is only in the last five generations that so many of us have lived and worked in a context that is largely separated from nature. I recently moved to the beautiful village of Gainford in Cou