Month: April 2019

I love attending the I Can sessions.  It enables me to stay positive.  It’s like a circle of friends and Kay the wonderful lady who encourages us to consider positivity is fantastic. I especially like the fact that rather than just talking we get to stick all sorts of positive thought’s in our Life Planner.  This means that in between time I can look through it and remind myself to stay positive. This wasn’t the sort of thing that I learnt in school or at home as I was growing up, so I grew up being negative and eventually when I came into contact with the right people learnt about being positive and setting goals. I was very positive for a long…

Our year long peer support project called ‘I Can…’ funded by the Tampon Tax, through the mental health organisation MIND is now 25% completed. We’ve been gathering feedback from our women about the group. The women have created a really lovely bond together. The purpose of ‘I Can…’ was to bring together women with mental ill health to decide for themselves what they wanted to contribute to a positive, motivational evening session. Our women suggested using a Life Planner as the core mechanism of pulling together positive aspects of life and of living. This project is all about peer support. Of women doing for themselves rather than being pushed into something they did not want, and of creating an uplifting and supportive…