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Being young has never been more difficult

Being young has never been more difficult

How do we turn things around? How can we help our young people from feeling hopeless to feeling hopeful? When our youth understand that it is human and normal to experience the full spectrum of emotions AND secondly that their wellbeing (their capacity to feel confident, motivated, clear-headed, calm, grateful and optimistic) is innate/ built-in.

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Mental health support for children ‘lacks ambition’, BBC article – iheart’s response

Mental health support for children ‘lacks ambition’, BBC article – iheart’s response

Mental health support for children ‘lacks ambition’ a recent article from the BBC which covered the government plans for mental health support teams to be in a third of schools in England by 2022-23, saying that this plan lacks ambition and needs to be stepped up.

“Children’s wellbeing expert Lord Layard urged the Commons education committee to push for a national rollout before the end of this Parliament.”

Upon reading this article and Lord Layard’s comments, I wrote this response.

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‘Children’s mental health: Huge rise in severe cases, BBC analysis reveals’ – iheart’s response

‘Children’s mental health: Huge rise in severe cases, BBC analysis reveals’ – iheart’s response

The BBC recently published an article ‘Children’s mental health: Huge rise in severe cases, BBC analysis reveals’. Of course this is not news to iheart, and so we have written a response to this article. So … what do we do about it? Keep banging the drum? Keep telling everyone how big the problem is? Keep allowing fires to break out all over the pace? Isn’t that just more of the same?

For us, at iheart, the innovative mental health education charity, this just isn’t good enough. Our children are indeed suffering. And while we may be more ‘aware’ of this suffering than ever before, the problem continues to get worse. Not better.

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Top 5 benefits of being an iheart facilitator

Top 5 benefits of being an iheart facilitator

Meet Thomas Brosnan, a mental health professional with over twenty years experience as a Teacher, Addiction Specialist and Psychotherapist and, more recently, an iheart facilitator. We recently sat down with Thomas as he told us his top five benefits of being an iheart facilitator. “When I think of the benefits of becoming an iheart facilitator, the first thing that comes to mind is how the programme has significantly enhanced my life by highlighting the truth that I have everything I need inside me to thrive.”

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Grit. Got it. I mean really got it.

Grit. Got it. I mean really got it.

So here’s the problem: many, if not most of us, have been conditioned to think that grit is a quality that we need to acquire, achieve or instil. But what if that simply is not accurate? What were to happen if we understood grit to be something that we always have. All of us. All of the time. No matter what. “Wait!” I hear you shouting (at least that’s what I imagine you to be saying in order to maximise the effect of this short article), “How can that be true? Surely some people have grit, and some don’t? Surely we can get more grit? Better grit. Greater grit (you get the picture)?”

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