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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

28th January 2021

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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Author, Dominic Stevenson, discusses his mental health book, ‘Get Your Head In The Game’

27th January 2021

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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Richie Paxton, opens on a life in addiction as he continues turning his life around

14th January 2021

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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Art my Medicine

12th January 2021

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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Sarah Hollebon – Living with Anxiety and PTSD

3rd September 2020

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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Devil’s Game by Chloe Chadwick

11th August 2020

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’

18th June 2020

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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Battling away from depression and into fitness during a pandemic

15th June 2020

“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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Talking about my struggles had a negative effect on my mental health

11th June 2020

***WARNING – THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS DETAIL AND DESCRIPTIONS THAT MAY CAUSE UPSET*** When I was sixteen, I was sexually assaulted by someone that I knew from school. This was the start of my struggles with mental health as this played on my mind for years and led me to struggle to trust anyone. I then…
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How people treat you, is on them. What I choose to accept is on me

3rd June 2020

How people treat you, is on them. What I choose to accept is on me Where do I start with my journey and my battles with mental health? It’s been such a long journey and one I didn’t even know I was on, until it became too much. I never talk openly about my journey…
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Recent interview with NE Online Magazine

29th April 2020

I’ve recently discussed my time and a photographer and how that developed over a number of years and how it has now turned into Fine and Dandi with Peter Mann. Peter is someone I’ve worked with over the last decade and the time was right for us both to get together for a catch up…
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Time to Change Pledge

28th March 2020

I’ve recently signed the pledge with Time to Change on behalf of Fine and Dandi. This is to continue to help tackle the stigma around mental health and show that it okay to talk and seek help. Time to Change is a national initiative launched by two charities, Mind and Rethink Mental Illness and they…
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