Advice from the Listen Up! Reporters – Listen Up! Hub

At August’s reporter meeting, we had an icebreaker of “what advice would you give to everyone here”. It was so good, we wanted to share our advice with everyone…

• Listen
• Don’t sweat the small stuff
• Learn how to speak up for yourself
• Be honest where you can, if you don’t understand be honest and find the bravery to ask for help
• Find something every day that will make you laugh
• Follow your instincts, it can often tell us a lot
• Be kind to yourself. If you find that hard, think how would speak to a friend
• Drink water and get a good night sleep
• Embrace the work Groundswell is doing- it’s been a fantastic journey
• Ask if you don’t understand something, go with gut feeling and have a go
• Think about how you would like to be spoken to, focus on how would like to be treated, take a breath and try and be the best version of yourself
• Celebrate successes- “somewhere there is a past you overflowing with so much pride looking at how far you’ve come”

Hi I’m Tess, I work for Groundswell and have a long history of mental illness. During a particularly bad patch I sofa surfed for a while. I have a very opinionated cat and live near Manchester, although I’m formerly from Stoke-on-Trent.

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