Mental Health
Healthy minds and healthy bodies
(4 minute read)
Ronnie Convery examines the practical steps we can take to keep our lives in balance, not neglecting mind or matter, as we enter a new version of “normal” after lockdown in many parts of the world.
In a rocking boat: a personal experience of mental illness, productivity, and faith
(7 minute read)
Bianca Costa Sales reveals the stresses of student life in a foreign land can lead to both desperation and hope.
Finding meaning in COVID 19
(4 minute read)
We should not only seek the “end in time” of this epidemic but ask ourselves what is “the goal to reach”, argues Martin Duran Lopez.
Top tips for staying sane in a pandemic
(5 minute read)
Clinical psychologist Michael Killoran Ross suggests we can learn from astronauts and polar scientists to keep mentally healthy in this time of lockdown.
It’s okay to be broken
(6 minute read)
Lizzie Wakeling offers practical advice on learning to cope with anxiety and depression and explains how singing badly and sewing well can help put you back together again.
Mental health in an age of pandemic: three strategies for staying well in a crisis
(7 minute read)
Clinical Psychologist Dr Michael Ross analyses the challenges of staying well, and offers some strategies for good mental health
The sounds of silence
(3 minute read)
In his second reflection on self-isolation Richard Bauckham finds that forgotten sounds can be our best friends.
Pretty Hurts: The cult of (physical) beauty in Brazil
(9 minute read)
When bodily beauty matters as much as it does in a country like Brazil, the cost can be not only financial but also personal. Bianca Costa Sales explains.
Retreating to victory, and how silence takes us forward
In this second article in his Travelling where I am series, Joseph Evans explores silence’s hidden power and how it is necessary to make any journey meaningful.
“A state of perpetual panic”: the lost art of pressing the Pause button
Soul gym is just as essential as body gym, and sometimes it’s the time spent in stillness that makes the time spent in activity truly fruitful. Bianca Costa Sales invites us to draw breath.
