This week in the UK is National Mental Health Awareness Week, so we’re doing our part now to raise awareness.  This year the theme and focus of National Mental Health Awareness Week “Relationships“.

We wanted to highlight the fact that its Mental Health Awareness week as its a fantastic initiative to get those of us who are fortunate enough not to suffer mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, to better understand the everyday problems and challenges faced by those who do.  And thats a whopping 1 in 4 of us currently in the UK, experiencing mental health problems every year (stats from Mind: http://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/statistics-and-facts-about-mental-health/)

Focus on Relationships:

With no nonsense nutrition we talk a lot about food/drink and what we consume on a daily basis to keep our bodies healthy.  What we don’t mention as much, although think about and practice all the time, is feeding our minds (as well as our bodies and bellies!) – which obviously includes feeding our relationships.

Relationships can span anything and everything from that with with your partner, family and friends, to for example your relationship and how you interact with work, finance, education, spirituality and learning. (Plus of course our relationships and how we think about food).  Therefore relationships and how we think about them have the potential to impact on just about everything in our daily lives. Keeping your mind on your relationships and how you interact and react to aspects of them, is a very big task we face every day.

This year for Mental Health Awareness Week, the mental health foundation are asking us to make a “Relationship Resolution” https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/relationships/my-relationships-resolution.

Have a read via the link above and a think about yours.  Then tell me – Whats your Relationship Resolution?  You can share it with us via our social media channels – Facebook and Twitter for a start – just use the hashtag #RealtaionshipsResolution

There’s more on this weeks BLOG here.