Mental Health Awareness week is coming up during the first week of term 4.

The Theme this year is 'Top up Together'  I have included the links below, these websites have a fantastic range of resources and information for us to support our wellbeing.

I do hope that the holiday period gives an opportunity for some time to relax amongst work and study.  I am making my way through reading Jonathan Haidt's 'The Anxious Generation'  How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. It is an enlightening read about the decline of play based childhood and the rise of the phone based childhood. A recent chapter talks about the well-being benefits of awe and natural beauty "As for our children, if we want awe and natural beauty to play a larger role in their lives, we need to make deliberate efforts to bring them or send them to beautiful natural areas. Without phones (pg.215)."  Easier said than done once they are teenagers! We are fortunate to have an abundance of natural areas in the Clutha district. 

https://mhaw.nz/

https://mentalhealth.org.nz/

ngā mihi nui

Cath Bloxham

Guidance Counsellor