Mental Wellness

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.

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.

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

A group of lads in Wales is making conversations about men’s mental health more acceptable at their cafe headquarters and beyond.

London’s Freud Museum shares the legacy of the founder of psychoanalysis while giving the practice of therapy modern relevance.

Therapy has changed. We’ve rounded up some of the new places and platforms bringing this practice into our modern world.

A London based not-for-profit bringing the therapeutic benefits of gardening to young people and changing who gets to garden one project at a time.

The Psychology Fringe Festival is giving us some much needed alternatives for ways forward and ways of being. They are bringing to the fore increasingly urgent conversations created by the circumstances of our rapidly evolving world by the people who understand them most. That’s a new kind of festival that we all need to exist.

As MindFood’s motto goes, “Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.” The Ealing-based social enterprise has this idea at its core: it’s founded on nature and uses food as the framework for figuring out our mental health concerns.

Bryony Gordon launched Mental Health Mates as “a sort of walking/running group for the people for whom it is perfectly normal to feel weird”. Right from its start in London a few years ago people have consistently shown up, with outings now throughout the UK and abroad.

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.

Which cafes do more than get you started in the morning? Here we’re featuring a handful of cafes that go beyond coffee to our communities, our planet, even our minds.

Therapy has changed. We’ve rounded up some of the new places and platforms bringing this practice into our modern world.

From providing access to therapists who understand the experiences of Black Women to offering products and publications that destigmatize common mental health issues, Therapy for Black Girls is an online space dedicated to encouraging the mental wellness of Black women and girls.

Waking up in Joshua Tree was waking up in another world. Had I even seen the sun rise before? Had the light ever touched anything with such intention?? It hit me fairly quickly what people find appealing about this place. In the light of day, the landscape feels less like a barren wasteland and more like a waiting canvas, a palpable feeling of possibility filling the limitless space.

A birdwatching collective founded by and for people of colour that’s as much about mental health, creativity, ecology and community as ornithology.

Sidewalk Talk takes the psychotherapist’s couch outdoors, creating the space for anyone to be heard.

This International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating female-identifying space makers. Since we launched If Lost Start Here, we’ve found again and again that many of the places that are thinking about our mental wellbeing differently have been founded by women.

For Roos Stallinga riding a bike is both an art and therapy, making ourselves, and the world around us, a better place. Ride with Roos in Barcelona, Amsterdam and New York.

On cafes and why my love for them is maybe not just a personal one, but part of a wider universal longing.

Street Wisdom is prefacing a way of being that feels critical now. It’s untethering us from devices, it’s getting us back into our heads and bodies, it's making us sit with ideas again, and it’s offering us the space, time and tools to allow new perspectives in.

The distinct yellow pop of this life-managing brand has found infinite ways to weave itself into our lives. And this has all been done without ever really talking directly about our mental health - which is maybe the most genius thing of all.

We talked to the founder of the world’s first Poetry Pharmacy about why poetry still matters.

Two Chairs is doing therapy differently. We spoke to its Director of Brand Strategy about why the model of delivery has been so broken but also why therapy itself isn’t.

We talk to the British journalist Toni Jones, Founder of Shelf Help about the bookclub that became a global movement and why its her mission to make self-help accessible, collaborative and cool.

Discover how well-being and happiness overlap as well as seven practices that can help you cultivate eudaimonic well-being for a more fulfilling life.

Learn how to create an emotional and mental well-being plan tailored to you. Discover how our new online well-being course can help you feel better in your everyday life.

In the first in our Wellbeing Series, today we’re exploring the benefits of acceptance and how cultivating this practice can be a helpful tool in feeling better over all the days of 2024.

Discover the key to nurturing your mental health and enhancing your emotional wellbeing. Explore effective strategies and expert insights to support your mental health journey and cultivate a lasting sense of emotional balance and wellness.

How can we broaden out what nature can be for us: the micro gestures that have us listening for bird songs to the bigger-ask ones that have us hiking up mountains? Discover more of nature’s wellbeing benefits.

Curious about how to create the life you want without losing your way? Explore what better emotional well-being means to you with this 25-Day Reset. Join now.

We are hardwired to connect. Explore some of the benefits that simply being together can have for your emotional well-being and mental health.

We’re learning more about nature’s positive impacts on our emotional well-being and mental health. But how do you access its benefits in your everyday life? We have some ideas for you.

Why being lost is sometimes the thing that points the way.

How we’re reframing self-help as the collective together and how you can get involved.