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Doing good does you good

Helping someone is not only a nice feeling, it is also good for your mental health. People are invited to carry out an act of kindness every day next week to mark Mental Health Awareness Week, from Monday 21 to Sunday 27 May. It could be as simple as making someone a cup of tea; [...]

Adult Learners Week

Adult Learners’ Week is the UK’s largest annual festival of learning; inspiring thousands of people each year to discover how learning can change their lives. There are lots of events in Kent and Medway for you to find out more about adult learning. Adult Learners’ Week gives you the opportunity to explore the many different [...]

Help to Support a work colleague

The Mental Health Foundation have produced some guidance on how to help support a work colleague if you think that they need some extra support or are showing signs of stress. The What Works for You booklet contains information on how you can spot possible signs that your colleague needs extra support and how you [...]

Rethink: Siblings Connect Free Event!

Rethink are holding their first ever event offering support and information for brothers and sisters of people with mental illness; Siblings Connect. On Saturday 12 May 2012 Rethink will be holding a day of talks and workshops for anyone who has a brother or sister affected by mental health problems, and best of all…it’s free!! This one-day [...]

Are you looking after a friend or relative?

Carewell UK have produced a new resource for relatives, friends and carers. Their short handbook can provide you with some helpful tips to give you more energy to help you care better. The handbook contains articles on less stress, eating well, moving more and better sleep. You can also order the handbook through Carewell on [...]

Live It Well – Simple Steps to Wellbeing

May 2012 – Better Mental Health for Kent and Medway

As we here at Live It Well look forward to the coming summer months with the Diamond Jubilee celebrations and the Olympics we are still aiming to continue to bring you the latest news and tips for maintaining your mental health and wellbeing as well as developing the information that is available to you on this website.

If you want to see what Diamond Jubilee events are happening near to you and you live in Kent click here (this will take you to the Visit Kent website) or if you live in Medway click here (this will take you to the whats on in Medway website).

We have also added information on housing which you can find by clicking here.

We are also now advertising Live It Well in the Gateways across Kent – look out for our Five Ways to Wellbeing poster which you can also download to print out to advertise our site by clicking here.

What are the Five Ways to Wellbeing?

We have also been looking at our social networking, as well as our existing facebook and twitter pages we now have our own YouTube channel which you can find by clicking here on this channel you will find lots of videos on maintaining your wellbeing and mental health. If you know of any other youtube videos that we should add to our channel or put on the Live It Well front page let us know by contacting us here.

You can keep in touch by subscribing to our monthly email by completing the newsletter box in the right hand column, or you can follow us on facebook by clicking here or twitter by clicking here.

Remember if you have any suggestions or ideas for the Live It Well website, if you want to publicise a wellbeing event or have any news or stories of experiences you want to share we always want to hear from you contact us by clicking here.

May 2012

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Live It Well – Simple Steps to Wellbeing

Welcome to the Live It Well website for Kent and Medway.

This website has been developed to support the five year Live It Well Strategy for Kent and Medway and has been designed to help you maintain your wellbeing and link you in to what is available to support you locally.

As well as ideas that can help everyone stay well, it has information for people who use mental health services, carers and mental health professionals.
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