Mental Health Awareness Week- Let’s Talk Wellbeing

“At Chocolate PR we’re HUGE advocates of sharing is caring. We help our clients speak out on a daily basis about their struggles and challenges so that they can inspire and motivate others who may still be stuck in darker times. Mental Health HAS become more spoken about, and more represented in the media – but we’ve still got to keep opening the conversations, as there is definitely more work to do.”

Coronavirus and associated lockdowns have had a negative impact on the mental health of many of us. Mental health UK reported significant increases in anxiety, stress, fear, loneliness and feelings of hopelessness within the UK population throughout the pandemic.

The theme for this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week is Nature and the power of it and we’ve come together with 5 of our fabulous clients to look at this from a different perspective. 

Here, our Mastermind clients, have collaborated to bring you some FABULOUS FREE resources all around how being in control of your environment can aid your mental health – be it managing your mindset, to creating a serene home. 

Have a delve into the hugely valuable resources they have pulled together for you  – and if you like them, all we ask is you consider making a donation to the incredible Fly Anyway Foundation, run by the equally amazing Dani Wallace. This foundation, of which we are an Ambassador supports those who’ve overcome domestic violence and mental health challenges as a result and are now striving to move forward with confidence to become thriving business owners.

Diana Spellman, The Realistic Home Organising Expert and Founder of Serenely Sorted (https://serenelysorted.com/)

Diana is on a mission to reduce the nation’s mess stress and as someone naturally messy herself who suffered anxiety from working from home and not having a serene space to fully relax, her business was born from her own frustrations and struggles. She is also passionate about helping us to reclaim our time – so   we can spend MORE time on the things we love, like our family, our businesses, ourselves – not tidying

Diana’s Serenely Sorted System helps us to get out of the mess stress cycle and save time every day with smarter ways to get sorted and more serene – it’s her mission now to share this system with busy, people everywhere – starting with this fabulous flipbook and she’s also offering her Ten Surprising Ways to Feel Serene at Home Everyday, as part of Mental Health Awareness Week, to further help us get our homes back to our havens.

Having a cluttered and disorganised home is proven to lead to stress. Let Diana help you create a sense of calm to combat the stresses of the day. 

She said:

“82% of us have experienced ‘mess stress’, with nearly half of us feeling it weekly. It could feel like a nagging voice in your head or be just a tiny niggle because you can see your work laptop ping with an email in your evening. Mess stress prevents us from relaxing and truly unwinding and this is more important than ever now we are in our homes more than ever with hybrid working set to continue for the long term.”

> Get Diana’s FREE E-Book

to further help us get our homes back to our havens.

Clair McKenzie,  Weight Loss Mindset & Life Coach, aka ‘The Weight loss Whisperer’ (https://www.thebestyou.coach/)

Clair helps female professionals and entrepreneurs to create a relationship with food, themselves, and their lives that they love, having battled her own journey for years, struggling time and time again to lose weight, until finally, she realised she had to tap into her mindset, habits and beliefs to enable change.

Clair said:

“When I turned 40 I was fat, frustrated and morbidly obese. And then after 3 decades of struggling with my own weight, emotional eating, diet deprivation and self-sabotage, I realised that the answer to happiness with weight and health did not lie with the next fad diet but instead with learning how to change my mindset and nurture my emotions. Through this realisation I lost six stone for the last time”

Watch as she talks you through the concepts in this video:

Helen Adams (https://www.facebook.com/helenadamscoach) 

knows what it feels like to give up on your dreams due to your environment, circumstances and downtrodden confidence – BUT she also knows how it feels to recalibrate, to recreate new goals and to reset.

Now a fearless entrepreneur in her 50s, International Best Selling Author and leader of the Female Business Revolution Helen has created the environment for herself she needs to succeed and champions and coaches other midlife entrepreneurs to create more freedom through creating businesses they love, whilst having fun doing it!

As part of her commitment during Mental Health Awareness Week, she is here to help you raise a smile, and realise the power of loving yourself first. Helen is stepping into her true self and is now not afraid to show it! Enjoy! 🙂

And there’s more –  Here is her 10 step guide to Self Love.

Salwa Abdul Ali is a woman on a mission to prove that the environment you grew up in doesn’t need to be the one you end up in. An empowerment and leadership coach who helps women step up to be the leaders they were born to be, she is especially passionate about supporting women from Muslim communities and other upbringings where they have been challenged by a patriarchal society, to help them take their place at the table.

Having escaped her place of birth and overcome severe anxiety and a breakdown as a result of a past that saw her trapped, to run her own business coaching female leaders, Salwa now helps others who are keen to forge their own path but have been held back. She works with them to help them build up their self-worth, with a strong mindset for success, so they can see what is possible for them too.

Louisa Herridge, Reinvention & Empowerment Coach, Speaker & Author and Founder of Mamas Ignited (https://www.facebook.com/mamasignited)

Louisa has recently shared her mental health battles which culminated in a breakdown, just 18 months ago, following years of narcissistic abuse and self-sabotage. She has learnt how to build herself back up, from the ground up and is now inspiring other women, particularly mums, to find their own spark and ignite their passion, whatever stage in their life they are at. 

She teaches how by connecting to our 5 elements and our true nature we can find the fire within us to create the life we really desire.