Of the more than 100 books that Jonny Zucker had written, Striker Boy was always his and his family's favourite. Now, Striker Boy has been republished in aid of the mental health charity, Mind [https://www.mind.org.uk/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIw5jHtP622QIVGV8ZCh3j0gBxEAAYASAAEgK48fD_BwE] . We spoke to the manager of…
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Kathryn Wheeler
Kathryn is the Acting Editor at Happiful magazine.
Unsung Hero: The eating disorder survivor changing the lives of others
Nominated by her partner, Adam McWeeney, Laura Phelan has dedicated her life to supporting those living with eating disorders Laura Phelan In the UK, there are an estimated 1.25 million people living with an eating disorder. Ten years ago, Laura Phelan was one of them. But now, after battling…
MQ: The mental health research charity
For every person diagnosed with cancer, £178 is spent on research per year. For mental illness, the figure is just £8. MQ [https://www.mqmentalhealth.org/] wants to change that "It’s hard to define when mental health research, as we would understand it, emerged,” says Sophie Dix, Director…
What is Compassion Fatigue?
Is exposure to a 24-hour news cycle doing more harm than good? There’s no escaping the 24/7 news cycle. Television, radio, push-notifications, live billboards, trending hashtags and Twitter moments; in 2018, we’re getting bad news faster than ever before. But, surely, there’s a limit…
Romantic Activities For a Non-Commercial Valentine's Day
Love hearts and roses aren’t for everyone. This Valentine’s Day, do things your way With every other shop window decked out in anything red and heart-shaped, and radio stations playing love songs on repeat, it’s hard to escape the materialistic monster that Valentine’s Day has…
Happiful Partners with the Mindful Living Show 2018
With more than 50 workshops, seminars, and teachings, the second annual Mindful Living Show is set to be a day to remember For the second year running, Happiful magazine is delighted to announced its partnership with the Mindful Living Show [http://www.mindfullivingshow.com/mindfulliving2018/en/page/home]. The show,…
Charity Urges Us to Talk Mental Health at Work
We’d rather talk to colleagues about sex than our mental health – survey A Time to Change [https://www.time-to-change.org.uk/] survey of 2,000 British workers asked participants to select topics they would be comfortable talking about with colleagues, from a list provided. Results revealed that…
The Clean Kilo: The supermarket with zero waste
We produce nearly 300 million tons of plastic every year, and over half of that is for single-use products - something’s got to change Blue Planet II brought attention to the devastating effect that our plastic addiction is having on the oceans, but back on dry land, plastic buried…
Caffeine-Free Energy Drinks: Can they replace a morning coffee?
80% of the world’s population consumes a caffeinated product each day, so what would it take to give it up? Caffeine is a natural brain and central nervous system stimulant found in tea, coffee, and cocoa plants. While it’s relatively harmless, those with anxiety [https://www.anxietyuk.org.…