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At If Lost, we’re crafting a unique guidebook to help you find support in all aspects of life. Discover resources that help you embrace nature, creativity, spirituality, the joy of tech-free moments, and more.

We're exploring the US and UK to uncover independent, innovative initiatives that inspire more good days. From charming local shops to breathtaking landscapes and enriching meet-ups, our guidebook brings together everything you need to enhance your well-being and find meaningful connections wherever you live. Where will your adventure lead you?

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42 Acres

Explore 42 Acres, a 173-acre regenerative estate and nature reserve in Somerset offering transformative retreats and nature-based experiences. Swim in the lake, meditate in the treehouse, or nourish yourself with farm-to-table food grown on-site.

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Where to stop on the way to Devon & Cornwall

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Here's our curated list of the best places to stop en route to Devon or Cornwall.

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Mood & Moves Dance Co.

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Explore your mood through dance at Mood & Moves, a creative studio in San Francisco. Founded in 2020 by Marcella Palazzo, the studio promotes creativity, self-expression, and well-being through empowering and fun dance experiences.

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Studio Pottery

Reconnect with the practice of making in this light-filled and spacious pottery workshop located in the heart of Belgravia.

Turning Earth Ceramics

"Like a gym membership for potters", discover four pioneering London studios cultivating craft both as an accessible hobby and as a viable career.

Vallis Farm

Seek out this farm in Somerset centered on learning and creativity, exchanging skills and ideas, while connecting you with the healing properties of nature. It’s truly a place to grow.

Women Outdoors

Discover a community of friendly and fun-loving women of all ages, backgrounds and fitness levels based in the UK. With Women Outdoors, founder Emma Winters has created an environment where you can be your authentic self, develop outdoor skills, connect with like-minded women and go home with a big smile on your face.

Our Guide to Small Businesses We Love

This Colour Friday we’re celebrating the independent shops that we love. Find the perfect Holiday Gift from one of our favourite places.

Shop Small Special: The Bristol Artisan

A home for local craftsmanship and creativity, The Bristol Artisan embodies the spirit of community and sustainability of the city.

Shop Small Special: The Department of Hope, Joy and Wonder

An uplifting place to browse and meet friends that spreads joy and wonder in Cheltenham and beyond

Shop Small Special: Find Ubiety

Discover a haven for your wellbeing in Bath that gives back to others too

(Save) Mental Health Swims

Discover why we’re supporting Mental Healh Swims, the multi-award-winning mental health peer support community.

Present and Correct

A beloved stationary shop to quiet the mind and spark your creativity

Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh

Discover the well-being benefits of a world-class botanical garden beloved by locals and visitors alike

The Frome Kindness Festival

How a small town in Somerset is trying to be kinder

VERVE Festival | A conversation with co-founder Anna Hayward

One of Conde Nast Traveller’s “Woodstocks of Wellness”, we interviewed co-founder Anna Hayward about how doing what you love is at the heart of any well-being practice

The Wave

Discover a wave garden focused on bringing the benefits of blue spaces to everyone.

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Okay Humans

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With Okay Humans, founder and LMFT Christy Desai is modernizing and destigmatizing therapy to help more people feel better, stronger, and more alive.

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Tribe Porty

Tribe Porty makes good things happen for its community and beyond. Find out how this Edinburgh coworking space thinks differently about how we gather together to work.

Gather Round

Discover a family of creative workspaces in Bristol built by creatives for creatives. Now we’ve experienced life without each other, Gather Round restores real-life interactions that no amount of Zoom can replace.

Beyond Books

This independent Bookshop Week, escape into the Imaginary with some of our favourite independent bookshops.

Work + Play - A New Local Coworking Concept

Looking for a new way to work? Co-founder of London’s Work + Play Freddie Scobey talks to us about how he’s creating a coworking space that’s reclaiming how we balance our lives.

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Queer LifeSpace

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Discover San Francisco’s Queer LifeSpace which offers safe, affordable and accessible support for the queer community. We invited them to tell us about their approach and how people can access their services from wherever they are.

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All in the Mind Festival

Discover an annual festival that uses creativity to explore mental well-being, and that’s finding ways to use performance to make happier brains.

Knockout

We find out about London's Premier LGBTQ+ Boxing Club and the role that both the mind and community can play in physical wellbeing.

Talk Club

Talk Club is creating the space for much-needed conversations about men’s mental health. Meet Ben Akers, its inspirational founder, who is leading the change in how men think about mental fitness and emotional strength.

Red Rocks Ampitheatre

With sounds bouncing off the rocks in every direction, the venue, and surrounding 700 acres, offer an immersive and awe-inspiring setting for your favorite musical acts. On our trip, we photographed deer and birds (and one random feral cat) as we awaited entry to Phoebe Bridgers show. For lovers of nature and music, there simply could not be a more beautiful place to lose yourself. (Spoiler alert: I cried twice.)

Mental Health Swims

We talk to Rachel Ashe about the social enterprise she founded that offers mental health peer support through cold water dips.

Five of our Favourite Museums for Finding Awe and Wonder

A visit to a museum can be one of those everyday adventures that helps inspire us in our daily lives, feeds our curiosity, and brings a sense of awe and wonder into our days. Here’s a round-up of five museums in London that recently offered the life pick-me-up that we needed.

The Generator Hub

Discover a coworking space in Exeter that has become a place where people can come and escape their own four walls, and meet other like-minded individuals (maybe even friends for life).

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