Are you struggling to feel motivated?

There are 5 steps you can take to improve your mental health and wellbeing. Trying these things could help you feel more positive.

Connect

• MeetUp: Join or start a new group in your local area

• Time to Change: Lived experience of mental health? Join local Champions tackling mental health stigma and discrimination

Be Active

• NHS Fitness Studio

• Keeping Fit during Covid-19 with many at home exercise options for all the family, including older adults and pre and postnatal women.

Be Curious

• Good Thinking: Mindfulness and meditation apps to help reduce stress and boost mental resilience

• NHS advice on Mindfulness

• Citizen Zoo (newsletters)

• Kingston Mindfulness Meditation Group

• Easy Things to Do Online for people with Learning Disabilities

Keep Learning

• Kingston Library: Online Book Club, Story telling and reviews of books via their Facebook group

• National support to help learn English online

• Upgrade your CV with E-learning opportunities at FutureLearn

• National Career Service

• Kingston Adult Education has a wide range of courses running online

Give

• Volunteering Kingston for local opportunities

• Proud to Care are looking for a range of support workers

If you would like or need more support:

• Kingston iCope: psychological therapy

• Samaritans helpline: Call 116 123

• SHOUT crisis text line: Text 85258

• Feeling isolated or alone

• Worried about a young person

• Feeling worried or anxious