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“You
cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about
all the events…”
Roy
T. Bennett
Welcome to Day Three of the Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) series; 5 Things to Take Action With. Today, I’m going to provide a number of resources to help you to take action your experiences…
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“Distance
yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease
your ambition. Create space for positive people to come into your life.
Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage
your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.”
Roy
T. Bennett
Welcome to Day Two of the Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) series; 5 Things to Take Action With. Today, I’m going to provide a number of resources to help you to take action on any issues regarding your support system…
“If
you want to get positive results you have to refuse to think negative thoughts
by substituting them with constructive ones. When you develop a positive
attitude toward life, your life will start having a positive result.”
Roy
T. Bennett
Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) kind of came out of nowhere for me this year and it was literally just on the 6th May that I spotted it as a post on the Mind Instagram account (@MindCharity with the specific post I’m referring to being this one!)! So, I managed to find the theme this year is ‘Take Action’, and I worked that into seven blog posts with this first one being the launch for the Series, the following five each being a different thing that can be important to your mental health that you can take action with, and the seventh being a re-cap. I hope the content this Week is somewhat up to scratch for you all despite my lack of preparation and creation time(!), now let’s kick things off with more on MHAW and why both the Week and this Series, matter…
“I
can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff…”
Fred
Armisen
So, I used Chat GPT to check for additional ideas on what I should be including in an article titled ‘Series Re-Cap’ for the Gracie’s Way’s website (www.graciesway.co.uk) that I was intending to use to basically wrap-up the week-long Series of content on there – and on the project’s Instagram (@GraciesWayUK) – for Dying Matters Awareness Week 2026. For numerous reasons (which will all be explained in that re-cap post on May 10th!) I decided that this Awareness occasion was the right one to be the first one for Gracie’s Way to publish a Series of content in response to it. And amongst the Chat GPT response to my prompt, it actually advised that I include some words on the emotional journey of creating a Series of content. I began writing hat section in the Re-Cap article when I had the thought ‘this could be an entire blog post!’ So, here it is…
“Things
are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.”
Bill
Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
I sort of built this day up a bit on the blog with a previous piece about the pre-wedding party: A TREASURE TROVE BLOG POST: MAID OF HONOUR INSIGHT INTO THE BEST-FRIEND’S PRE-WEDDING WARM-UP!!! | IN COLLABORATION WITH TURTLE BAY NEWCASTLE | I'm NOT Disordered. Then, this blog post was written ahead of time so that I could still publish it on the weekend of the Wedding (it was on Saturday April 18th) without having to write it then too! But, on writing this, the plan is to likely put this up on the Sunday because the after-party finishes at midnight on Saturday night and I obviously want to add all – or some (depending on how many I take!) – photos and videos etc to the post! And, in case anyone is wondering, I take absolutely no credit for the questions in this piece – it was literally all Chat GPT! I honestly just loved them so much and enjoyed that I purely had to answer them(!)…
