Fine and Dandi was started with the intention of raising awareness around mental health, helping someone who maybe struggling and showing everyone, they don’t have to suffer alone. After the success over the past 18 months with Fine and Dandi there have been some talks about “what’s next”. One thing I have always wanted Fine…
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As New Year’s Resolutions go, one person is taking it to a whole, other level, and we’re not just talking about going beyond 31 January, although that is a good start. They do say that the great outdoors, sport and exercise, is good for the body and soul, wellbeing, and one’s mental health. In fact,…
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I facilitated the production of the film “Mental Health in Pictures – In Conversations with My Tribe”, to engage Time to Change Champions in Greenwich, South London for Time to Talk Day in February 2021; a national campaign fighting the stigma associated with mental health. Because the theme of the Time to Talk Day was “the…
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London fashion designer creates an immersive digital experience to coincide with national mental health campaign Time to Talk Day – 4 February 2021 Fashion designer and mental health activist, Sarah Hollebon, has created an immersive online exhibition to open up the conversation around mental ill health and challenge the stigma and discrimination through her sculptured…
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The year 2020 will long go down as the year of the global pandemic and for some, good has emerged from within the ensuing madness which ultimately beset the world. One of those individuals in question is new author, Dominic Stevenson, who, via Watkins Publishing in early December, released his first book – ‘Get Your…
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Former footballer, Richie Paxton, opens on a life in addiction as he continues turning his life around and offers his own, sporting chance There comes a time in one’s life where you just have to stop, look around, and make some necessary changes; when those changes needed are surrounding that of addiction and mental health,…
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I have suffered in silence for many years. As a teenager, I had no idea what was happening to me. Everybody always perceived me as a bit anti-social, very shy and a geek. I was a high achiever, and although it did not make me very likeable amongst my peers, it helped to overshadow my…
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So today is World Mental Health Day… here’s my story.. My personal journey has been ongoing for many years and many times I’ve almost lost the fight and have attempted suicide on more than one occasion and even today have those thoughts that make me contemplate my own life… But there only thoughts! I have…
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My name is Sarah. I am an emerging fashion designer with a mission to open up the conversation on social issues. I have suffered from anxiety since the age of 11 and have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from two separate incidents. The first incident happened when I was in my teens and the second one…
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Musicians often relate the music that they produce to real life situations, be they of a personal nature (experienced a situation themselves) or through a loved one, or it is written about someone they know or seen happen. That is the same with the new release from UK country artist, Chloe Chadwick who, with her…
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We all wear ‘The Mask’ Two halves of a life with differing outcomes, a life that has been locked away from the outside world with a façade, a mask, covering the true nature of the pain that comes from within. After leaving school, in my late teenage years, I was subjected to bullying in the…
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“The flow became a stream which soon turned into a river, and I’ve not looked back,” that’s how I look at battling away from depression, and into fitness, during a pandemic Expectations were quite high for 2020 since my first release with Fine & Dandi. Granted my mental health issues had been a constant thorn…
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