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Local Update, 10 April 2023
Barnet Voice for Mental Health
020 3475 1314
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Welcome to our weekly newsletter about mental health services and support available in Barnet and beyond. Also bringing you updates on Inclusion Barnet mental health news. Produced by Ed Peston, Communications Assistant.
Events and News from the Web
Mental Health Online: Financial Wellbeing (From Ajuda), Thursday 13 April, 10.00am - 12.00pm
Join this online event on 13th April, to learn more about financial wellbeing and how to effectively manage your budget.
Financial wellbeing is all about feeling secure about your finances. It's meeting your current and ongoing financial obligations, and being able to make choices that help you enjoy your life without being constantly concerned about money.
Monthly Adult Meet-Up - Looking after our sleep with Dr Gabriella Romano (From the Bobath Centre), Friday 14 April, 2.00 - 3.30pm
During this presentation The Sleep Charity will discuss what the importance is of sleep, how sleep can be affected for adults and what we can do to promote better sleep.
Book Monthly Adult Meet-Up - Looking after our sleep with Dr Gabriella Romano
Introduction to Resilience (From PMAC Mental Health & Wellbeing), Friday 14 April, 2.00 - 3.00pm
Understand what resilience is, the pillars of resilience, small changes to increase resilience and interesting ways to be more resilient.
Reframing Rejection: How to approach job hunting with a positive mindset (From Equipt), Friday 14 April, 3.00 - 4.00pm
This is a Q&A-based discussion, not a structured presentation -- Bring your job-hunting questions or challenges, and the facilitator will answer questions and advise on how to develop a positive mindset for your search.
Facilitated by Sarah Elliott, a certified Life Coach & Psychotherapist and founder of Vault Consulting. She supports clients in both building greater awareness of themselves & then using that knowledge to put into action new habits & behaviors, all with the aim of experiencing positive momentum forwards.
Book Reframing Rejection: How to approach job hunting with a positive mindset
ME/CFS peer support group- ONLINE (From Community Prevention & Engagement Team), Wednesday 12 April, 2.00 - 3.00pm
Do you or some-one you care for have a diagnosis of ME/CFS? Do you have an interest in this condition?
This peer support session aims to bring people together to share experiences.
Journaling Journeys (An Inside Job) with Cindy Gum, LMFT (From Breathing Spaces; Family Caregiver Support Network), Saturday 15 April, 6.00 - 7.30pm
Led by Cindy Gum, LMFT, this journaling circle is open to anyone who wants to use writing to become their own best friend.
Book Journaling Journeys (An Inside Job) with Cindy Gum, LMFT
How To Overcome Anxiety and Stop Obsessive Thinking! (From Allynn Taylor), Tuesday 11 April, 5.00 - 6.30pm
Join certified life coach, Allynn Taylor, to discover how to move past fear and anxiety, and step into more freedom and joy.
Podcasts
“She Said, He Said” podcast: The crucial connection between exercise and mental health (From NWI Times)
She Said, He Said, with Jerry and Karen Davich
Listen to “She Said, He Said” podcast: The crucial connection between exercise and mental health
Living on a Changing Planet Podcast (From Carter Powis & Patrick Kennedy-Williams)
Climate change has been endlessly debated. Is it happening? Are humans causing it? How bad is it going to get? What should we do about it? In this podcast a climate scientist and clinical psychologist team up to tackle the topic that’s missing from the climate conversation: how do you learn to live with it?
Articles
Adam Peaty withdraws from British Swimming Championships for mental health reasons (From Sky Sports)
"I'm tired, I'm not myself and I'm not enjoying the sport as I have done for the last decade," Adam Peaty has withdrawn from next month's British Swimming Championships in Sheffield due to mental health reasons.
Read Adam Peaty withdraws from British Swimming Championships for mental health reasons
Attending live sports may be good for your well-being: research (From CTV News)
If you're feeling alone or dissatisfied, a new research suggests that watching live sports in person may help you to improve your level of well-being and reduce that feeling of loneliness.
Read Attending live sports may be good for your well-being: research
Hybrid workers are exercising and sleeping more, reporting better mental health than before the pandemic (From Fortune)
As the remote vs. hybrid vs. in-person work debate continues, a new survey suggests health outcomes may have a role to play in swaying employers and job seekers alike.
Two-thirds of Brits feel their mental health has never been the same since the pandemic (From Metro)
A report published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) earlier this month said that Covid-19’s impact on some people’s well-being was ‘minimal’ at best.
But those responding to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy’s (BACP) annual Public Perception Survey might disagree with that.
Read Two-thirds of Brits feel their mental health has never been the same since the pandemic
Gut feelings: why drugs that nurture your microbes could be the future of mental health (From the Guardian)
Scientists know our gut influences our brain. So psychobiotic drugs that shift the composition of microbes in the gut may be able to help treat disorders such as anxiety and depression
Read Gut feelings: why drugs that nurture your microbes could be the future of mental health
Ben Chilwell: Chelsea defender discusses mental health help following injury that forced him to miss the World Cup in Qatar (From Sky Sports)
Ben Chilwell missed England's World Cup campaign with a hamstring injury and has opened up about receiving mental health help afterwards; "I've been talking to someone for a few years now - I think it can definitely help everyone. The stigma is something that needs to go"
5 ways to spring clean with mental wellness in mind (From CBS News)
Did you know cleaning up your space isn't just for appearances or even physical health? It can also have an impact on your mind.
How financial stress can affect your mental health and 5 things that can help (From the Conversation)
Financial stress is affecting us in many different ways. Some people are struggling to pay bills, feed the family, or maintain a place to live. Others are meeting their basic needs but are dipping into their savings for extras.
But understanding and finding ways to reduce our financial stress – and its emotional impact on us – can help make this challenging time a bit easier.
Read How financial stress can affect your mental health and 5 things that can help
Regular Events on the Web
Mindly Weekly - Practical Tips on Mental Wellbeing & General Anxiety (From Step8up Mindly), Tuesday 11 April, 12.30 - 1.00pm
Join this session each week to know how easy it is to manage day to day mental wellbeing, especially general anxiety, using methods which are practical and easy.
Book Mindly Weekly - Practical Tips on Mental Wellbeing & General Anxiety
Online wellbeing workshops from Mid West Aries
Offering a range of free courses online via Zoom. Anyone over the age of 18 with an interest in mental health and well-being can sign up for the courses.
Psychologically Informed Reflective Practice for Parents (From Jounita Wright), Thursday 13 April, 7.00 - 10.00pm
This is a free online event for any parent/carer of adolescents aged 13-20 concerned with behaviour change.
Book Psychologically Informed Reflective Practice for Parents
Online ADHD Support Group (From Tim Kiver Foundation), Tuesday 11 April, 7.30 - 9.00pm
A safe place for anyone interested in ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) in ANY way to share experiences and learn more about:
• What ADHD is
• How ADHD affects peoples every day life
• Ways to manage ADHD symptoms
• How to seek medical help for ADHD
• The Facts and Fiction that surround ADHD
International Wellbeing Support Group (From Rain on Me), Monday 17 April, 5.30pm
A free, international safe space to vent and grow with people who understand and accept you.
Regular Events in Barnet
Meridian Wellbeing in Barnet
A range of events and activities in Barnet and online including Barnet Wellbeing Hub, Barnet IAPT, Wellbeing Cafe, Wellbeing Workshops, Chinese Wellbeing Services, Supportive Online Communities
More information about Meridian Wellbeing events and activities
Barnet Carers
Barnet Carers provides support and information for unpaid, informal, carers across the London Borough of Barnet. Includes yoga, meditation and mindfulness.
Building Friendship
Building Friendship is a free weekly drop in every Friday for those with mental health difficulties.
Meet at East Barnet Baptist Church hall, EN4 8PS. Come along for a cup of coffee and a friendly chat between 10am and 12noon.
For more information email: [email protected]. Or leave a message with your name and contact number on 020 8449 5320.
Weekly online social group from Mind in Enfield and Barnet, Fridays from 6.00 - 7.00pm
This group takes place by Zoom, and the session is broken up into a few casual activities such as:
Catch up about each other’s week
Play a quiz where everybody provides 3 questions
Share and discuss TV, movies and news that has inspired us this week
If you would like to attend, please email Sam Brown at [email protected]
Mind and Mood Support Group
We celebrated our eighth successful year on 4th January 2023 and have a group of regular attendees (usually around 6, but this may vary). The first half of the meeting our Guest Speaker speaks (on the day we have one) for approx. 20 mins, following this members are free to ask questions. Then half-way through, about 6.45 we have a comfort break with tea, coffee and biscuits. The second half, we all share our experiences of where we are since the last meeting.
The group is facilitated by Sandra Turner and Peter Sartori, both with considerable experience of the mental health system.
Since the Pandemic. Our group has gone through necessary changes. One week our group meets via Zoom from 6-7.15pm. Alternate wks. we meet, in person at 55 Christchurch Avenue 6-7.30pm. No-one is allowed to join our meetings without prior arrangement.
If there is anything else you wish to know, please do not hesitate to contact:
Peter Sartori e: mailto:[email protected] m: 07947 713306 Sandra Turner e: [email protected]
If you wish to subscribe to our monthly “Creativity & Wellbeing Newsletter” please email Sandra with “Subscribe to Newsletter” in the subject of your email.
About Inclusion Barnet
We are a Peer-Led Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisation (DDPO).
Nearly all of our directors and staff have lived experience of disability, including mental health issues and/or long-term health conditions.
We believe that learning to use our lived experience for social change is a skill. We have become experts in harnessing the lived experience of our staff, members, volunteers and the people who use our services to design and deliver higher quality, more person-centred services.
Other services run by Inclusion Barnet that you might be interested in are:
Benefits Advice Service (supporting disabled people in Barnet to access the benefits they are entitled to).
Touchpoint (supports people experiencing any form of disability in Barnet to access the services and resources they need).
Healthwatch Barnet (an independent, statutory organisation dedicated to improving health and social care services in Barnet).
For more information about the wider range of other work we do please visit our website www.inclusionbarnet.org.uk
Useful links for mental health and wellbeing
Click on the title to go to the individual websites.
LOCAL
- Mind in Barnet - counselling
- Mind in Barnet Sanctuary - find calm, make space, move forward
- Barnet Wellbeing Service
- BEH-MHT* crisis helpline 0800 151 0023 24/7, 365 days a year.
(*BEH-MHT = Barnet, Enfield Haringay - Mental Health Trust)
LONDON & NATIONAL
- The Help Hub - free online emotional support sessions
- Good Thinking - free online Mental Wellbeing for London
- Kooth - free, safe and anonymous online support for young people
- Qwell - free online safe and confidential space to share & support
Shout - free, 24/7 text messaging support - text SHOUT to 85258 - Samaritans - free phone & email support in a crisis
- Useful links from Sussex University - lots of useful links to MH resources
Independent Living Centre, c/o Barnet & Southgate College,
7 Bristol Avenue, Colindale, London NW9 4BR
Inclusion Barnet is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation.
Registered Charity Number: 1158632
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