If Lost Start Here is a guide for the anxious, curious, lonely and lost. Featuring everyday places and at-home prompts designed to help you live a life that feels good.
Before the impacts of the current pandemic began to be so keenly felt, we were lucky to talk to one of the original pioneers of the self-care movement, Jennifer Louden. Posting this now, we’re finding that Jen’s wisdom here and in her forthcoming book Why Bother can be a helpful guide for approaching our current situation.
Comedians are performing, children’s authors are reading their books, musicians are putting on concerts in their living rooms (!!) people are CONNECTING in any way that they can, all in the name of banding together to protect the most vulnerable members of our communities. (I know it’s the internet, and social media at that, but there is a real beauty here and I hope it is not lost on us.)
Share how we can come together to support community spaces and independent businesses through this unprecedented time, and help them keep the lights on.
We’ve reworked our editorial guidelines to help you best meet evolving mental health needs in this time of uncertainty. We’d love you to write for us, contribute an idea or support our work however you can. Collectively we’ve got this.
My friends keep asking me: “How do you homeschool ALL the time?! I am going crazy!! What’s your secret?!”
To which I keep responding:“You do realize that ‘homeschooling’ is much harder in the midst of a global pandemic when we are all panicked and locked indoors, right? Have you considered just doing a completely mediocre job??”
We’ve put together a quick guide for how to maintain your mental wellbeing while social-distancing.
At a moment when many of us are turning to nature, guest writer Kat Vellos finds her calm at Tilden Regional Park
Emotional Intelligence isn’t just for us grown-ups. Agata Dela Cruz talks to the owners of Tomato, a consciously designed toddler space in London about how it’s also for our little ones.
Illustrator Michaela Hobson revisits an old favorite, London’s Natural History Museum, and finds a place for inspiration, knowledge and respite.
This International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating female-identifying space makers. Since we launched If Lost Start Here, we’ve found again and again that many of the places that are thinking about our mental wellbeing differently have been founded by women.
Tatiana Backlund writes about a new active listening service in Montreal that you can seek out when you are in need of a good ole chat.
Writer Tiffany Francis-Baker takes us both back in time and brings us into the moment on the South Downs.
Ellie Grout finds her community of introverts at Bristol’s Creative Space and her equilibrium through Mindful Doing.
Zabby Allen, and her dog, find a world away from London as we know it, and a place to make her world just a little less isolated.
Illustrator Chelsea Ragan captures how past, present and future creative minds sit comfortably together at Eureka Hall.
The Good Life is one of those stores we’d love to have in our neighborhood. We chatted to its founder on why local matters more than ever.
What does one of the most popular visitor attractions in the UK have to do with wellbeing? A lot it would seem.
A seemingly hidden away creative escape, ready to be discovered again and again.
For Roos Stallinga riding a bike is both an art and therapy, making ourselves, and the world around us, a better place. Ride with Roos in Barcelona, Amsterdam and New York.
In the unlikeliest of places — outside a small village, on a working farm — sits one of the most well-regarded galleries of contemporary art in the world.
