Mental health
My role in helping people go from hospital to back to the community
Today we hear from Jo who has recently joined our Next Steps team a volunteer Peer Support Worker. She tells…
Read MoreCreate & Recover – how creativity can promote recovery
Creativity has an important role in recovery but maybe one that’s not recognised as fully as it could be, especially…
Read MoreThinking in a trauma-informed way
Jemma, one of our Recovery Coaches, tells us about joining our Step Together service during a pandemic and how our trauma-informed approach helps her and the people she supports.
Read MoreIt’s the creativity that saved me: Create & Recover
For April’s Stress Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness of the detrimental impact of stress and to help people…
Read MoreBristol GPs mental health learning pilot extended
GPs from East and inner city Bristol have been offering their patients a chance to enrol on wellbeing sessions to…
Read More“Just knowing the Safe Haven is there to support me is such a relief!” – Vicky’s story
A new crisis centre called the Safe Haven has opened in Weston-super-Mare providing a safe space for people in acute…
Read MoreWhy Meghan’s words mean so much to me
Like so many, we’ve been absorbed by the appalling revelations shared by Meghan in her recent interview with Oprah Winfrey.…
Read MoreSafe Haven Centre opens its doors to clients for face to face support for the first time
A new crisis support service run by mental health organisation Second Step and launched by Bristol, North Somerset and South…
Read MoreClimbing Snowden for the homeless
On the 13 of September 2021, one of our fabulous Recovery Coaches, Natasha, will be travelling to Snowdonia to reach…
Read MoreSTARs In Our Eyes
Twenty-twenty. Frustrating, bewildering, anxiety-ridden. And yet it offered space and time for reflection, renewal and self-improvement. As we tread tentatively…
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