Supporting our mental and emotional wellbeing
 

Mental Wellness

You’ve chosen the Mental Wellness Pathway.

Anxiety and depression are rapidly rising, and our ability to talk about and treat these conditions is changing. What’s available to us is also shifting. Beyond the usual suspects, medication, and talk therapy, there’s more, much more – initiatives, spaces and people that can help us in new and creative ways. If you feel any of these conditions, others feel it too, and people are doing great, non-stigmatizing things about it.⁠⁠

Many of these draw from people’s own frustrating experiences finding the help they need. Whether in the case of Ciaran Biggins of MindFood talking to people and realizing that the day centers that they attended weren’t giving them the sense of purpose and connection they were looking for.

Or Ali Strick, founder of Arts Sisterhood, who tried to find art therapy groups in London, but found instead “programs within medium-security mental hospitals that needed a doctor’s referral, art therapy for children or the mentally/physically disabled or extremely expensive one-on-one art therapy.”

Or with Bryony Gordon of Mental Health Mates who wanted “a kind of regular meet-up that other organizations have, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, but aimed at people with mental health issues, and for that to be combined with getting out the house and doing some gentle exercise: in our case, walking.”⁠⁠

Below are some suggested places to head when you’re wobbling, struggling, plummeting, or just drowning and not really waving at all.

We’ll be shining a light on the ones that now exist to get you more comfortable with the world and with yourself.⁠


Check out some of our featured places to seek better mental well-being

Here we’re roaming across the expanded field of therapy. Finding places that teach emotional intelligence, that promote happiness, that have your back in new ways. We’re looking for consciously designed spaces that put you and your mental well-being at the center of what they do.


UK Places


US Places


Worldwide Places


Conversations with Space-makers


Mental Wellness Journal


Found your way around our Mental Wellness Pathway? Ready to head somewhere else? Where do you want to go next?


There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
— Willa Cather