FREE Mental Health Micro Guide #33

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This issue is proudly brought to you

as part of an ongoing project with the Lighthouse Team

at YMCA Exeter

supporting residents and key workers

in mental health education and recovery.

This week: managing self-harm*

*there are no descriptions of self-harm in this micro guide but you may want to choose to read this at a different time depending on your association with the topic.

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The Question: How do we understand and manage self-harm?

Self-harm is a complex behaviour - not a mental health disorder.

This is a short reflection on the topic and not a comprehensive toolkit.

There are links to comprehensive resources in the “One Click Wonder”.

(fwd is aiming to have all video content accompanied with a descriptive transcript so that we can benefit from the wisdom and character of all who engage. The descriptive transcript can be found under the video in Youtube.)

The Time-Saver: Managing Self-harm

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Pause Portal: Horsham Deer (inevitable)

What do you feel

when you hear the word “inevitable”?

Resignation? Surrender? Demotivated? Powerless?

But what is inevitable

does not automatically mean

that you are disempowered.

Imagine you’re in the midst of winter.

Darkness and coldness are inevitable.

But it doesn’t have to stop you

enjoying moments of warmth and light.

You may just have to get a bit creative.

And whilst we inject

warmth and light into winter

in our own way,

we can also look forward to

seasons of warmth and light.

Neadon and Horsham Cleaves (Devon, UK)

are not well-known

but this late spring “pause” has

all my favourite things in:

-an unexpected encounter -

wildlife

-birdsong

-wildflowers

-vibrant greens

-a “first” (seeing bucks joust)

This encounter was not inevitable.

On the other hand spring and summer are inevitable.

And we can lean into that.

Plan those holidays.

Look through those summer photos.

Watch “Rick Stein’s Mediterranean Odyssey” Again.

Practise making Aperol Spritzes.

All sparking anticipatory emotions.

And the greatest anticipatory emotion of them all?

Hope.

Notice your breath’s rhythm

Is today inevitable?

Or can it do with

some more warmth

and some more light?

Can it do with

some anticipation?

Can it do with

some hope?

Take a moment to

think of one thing

you’re looking forward to.

Nothing come to mind?

Time to plan

for some anticipation.

It’s a start.

Breathe out.

Try it and see what difference it makes.

(fwd is aiming to have all video content accompanied with a descriptive transcript so that we can benefit from the wisdom and character of all who engage. The descriptive transcript can be found under the video in Youtube.)

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That’s all for this week.

Until next week, let’s keep moving fwd…