Mindful May
Tomorrow sees the start of 'Mental Health Awareness Week' (9-15 May) with this year's theme being loneliness. Throughout my blog, I'm going to use the terms 'mind health' , 'mindfulness' and such words. Personally, I don't like the term 'mental health' . When my grandad was alive, he went through a period of depression and back in those days, 'mental health' had very negative connotations around it. Of course, we have come a very long way since then but it's still a term I'm not fully comfortable with. I'm not going going to talk about loneliness per se but I am going to touch on how important it is to feel part of something. In my role as a PA, you belong everywhere yet nowhere, you feel on the periphery yet central, you're part of everything yet nothing. When you have a very different role to everyone else, it's easy to fall into the trap of feeling like you are not part of the team. You couldn't be m...