Ever get the feeling people think you’re a fraud? Or worse, that you don’t deserve to be where you are? Don’t worry, it turns out we all feel like a charlatan sometimes How to describe imposter syndrome? Let’s take two friends of mine. I have one…
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20 greatest mental health songs
Music may be the food of love, but sometimes a sad song is all we need. When things look bleak on the horizon, listening to a beautiful song about inner strife can do wonders for the soul. In this totally subjective list, Happiful selects 20 incredible songs that let us know we are not alone.…
The Flying Seagull Project: The Charity Putting Smiles Back on the Faces of Refugee Children
Play is such a vital part of children’s development, but for kids living in refugee camps, it’s merely a memory. That is, until Ash Perrin created his charitable circus troupe to tour the world and bring back the laughter Ash Perrin When most of us think back to…
The Mind Media Awards 2017
Monday 13 November marked a special occasion in our calendars, as hundreds of people championing mental health flocked to the Odeon in Leicester Square to celebrate the Mind Media Awards [https://www.mind.org.uk/news-campaigns/mind-media-awards/virgin-money-giving-mind-media-awards-2017-shortlist/] . Stephen Fry speaking at the Mind Media Awards With Mind ambassador Fearne…
Pioneering The Positivity Movement: The woman making wholesome memes
Whether it’s websites dedicated to ‘good news’, viral motivational TedTalks, or giant inflatable unicorns, positivity and escapism is the ‘thing’ of 2017. And wholesome memes are bang on trend Elle McGann 2017 has not, by any account, been an entirely smooth ride. And yet, more than ever before, digital…
The Fashion Brand Giving Back to Mental Health Charities
There are few industries as merciless as fashion, but Unfiltered Society is making a change for the better Following the birth of her first child, Jessica Ellis suffered with severe postnatal depression [https://mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/postnatal-depression-and-perinatal-mental-health/#.WgRQ9BO0Oi4] and PTSD [https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/]. Postnatal depression…
Who Are SANE?
A closer look at one of the UK's leading mental health charities Marjorie Wallace. Photography | Jesper Mattias SANE is a leading mental health charity established by Marjorie Wallace in 1986. It has three core objectives: 1. Raise awareness and combat stigma 2. Provide care and emotional support 3.…
The Big Interview: Marjorie Wallace, Founder of SANE - Part Two
Marjorie Wallace CBE was a celebrated journalist involved in some of the greatest scoops in British journalism. It was never her intention to found the independent mental health charity, SANE. Rather, the charity founded her. In part one [https://happiful-magazine.ghost.io/the-big-interview-marjorie-wallace-founder-of-sane/] of Ms Wallace’s interview with Happiful,…
Childline Unveil New App to Combat Sexting
A free anti-sexting app from Childline is using humour to help teenagers deal with unwanted requests for sexual images of themselves. Zipit The app arrives as the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC [https://www.nspcc.org.uk/]) reveal they dealt with 2,634 calls about…