BY HANNAH MORPETH Create Healthy Minds is a concept that I have been pondering over for a few years now however always found myself wondering what the “right way” to do it is. There is a surge in people organising and delivering courses and workshops around mental health and I find myself aghast at the… Continue reading Why Create Healthy Minds?
Lockdown Letters Part One
Hello! It has been a while, for various reasons even prior to the pandemic we've hurtled into, so I'm sorry about that. This is the first of two posts about letter writing in lockdown that I thought people may find helpful. I am finding that my Twitter feed at the moment is a 50/50 split… Continue reading Lockdown Letters Part One
Top Five Poetry Collections for Mental Health Awareness Week
This mental health awareness week I present you my top five poetry collections around the theme of body image. I use this theme loosely, in my eyes body image is so much more than the relationship we have with what our body looks like. Body image spills over into our individual identities which may be… Continue reading Top Five Poetry Collections for Mental Health Awareness Week
Mortal Fools – I Weigh Interview
BY HANNAH MORPETH Ahead of new production, I Weigh, Hannah Morpeth has spoken to Helen Ferguson (Theatre Director at Mortal Fools) about the importance of theatre and the inspirations behind the production developed by Mortal Fools and Tyne Valley Youth Theatre. Recent Reading/Listening/Watching At Create Healthy Minds we love to ask people what great work… Continue reading Mortal Fools – I Weigh Interview
Mental Health Nurses’ Day
BY HANNAH MORPETH I find it almost impossible to comprehend that today is the first Mental Health Nurses’ Day. From a quick internet search, I’ve established that in February there is a national hedgehog day; doggy date night; world cancer day; eat ice cream for breakfast day; kite-flying day; national tortellini day and the list… Continue reading Mental Health Nurses’ Day
Journalling for Wellbeing at The Staiths Cafe
Join us at The Staiths Cafe for our Journalling for Wellbeing workshop. Journalling for Wellbeing is a creative workshop as part of Monday Club at The Staiths Cafe, Gateshead. The first half of the workshop will involve getting crafty together and designing a journal to reflect your personality. We will then move onto learning some… Continue reading Journalling for Wellbeing at The Staiths Cafe
Letter Writing – Writing to Your Future Self
BY HANNAH MORPETH I first wrote a letter to my future self at the age of eighteen in the summer after my A Level exams, awaiting results that would determine the next three years of my life at a time of conflict in family relationships. I wouldn’t have pictured the way my life would change… Continue reading Letter Writing – Writing to Your Future Self
With the End in Mind
Last weekend I saw Dr Kathryn Mannix talk about her book: With the End in Mind for the second time. The first time was an author event at my local Waterstones, a short few months after my Grandma died, trying to make sense of life in grief. Following Dr Kathryn Mannix’s talk I purchased her… Continue reading With the End in Mind
INTERVIEW: WILKIE BRANSON
BY HANNAH MORPETH Hannah Morpeth recently spoke to Wilkie Branson ahead of production, TOM debuting at Sadler's Wells Theatre. TOM is set to be a brilliant fusion of choreography and digital animation dreamt up by the self-taught creative Wilkie Branson and commissioned by Sadler's Wells and Pavillion Dance South West. What are You Reading/Listening/Watching? "Whilst… Continue reading INTERVIEW: WILKIE BRANSON
Language and Mental Health
In Words Were Originally Magic by Steve De Shazer he talks about therapy as the telling and retelling of stories to allow people to reshape and own their own stories. This is something that has always stuck with me and came back to me more recently. There are lots of stories in the news of… Continue reading Language and Mental Health
The Streets are Made of Art
BY HANNAH MORPETH Last week I took a break from the busy chaos of my life to relax on the Costa Del Sol and despite returning feeling terribly unwell it was amazing! I've taken many a holiday in the north of Spain however this was my first southern experience and I must say I am… Continue reading The Streets are Made of Art
