Introduction
Many of you may know Dan Vandenburg as the club's Mental Health Champion, which is a scheme sponsored by England Athletics. He does various talks and things related to looking after your mental health.
As such, Dan wanted to do something for the club during what is probably a testing time mentally for many of us. Towards this, he will be posting on facebook every weekday around 3pm with a tip on how to look after your mental health during lockdown.
Tips for week 1 are also set out in this article Mental Wellbeing during Covid 19 Week1
Tips for week 2 are also set out in this article Mental Wellbeing during Covid 19 Week2
Tips for week 3 are also set out in this article Mental Wellbeing during Covid 19 Week 3
Tips for week 4 are also set out in this article Mental Wellbeing during Covid 19 Week 4
Welcome to week 5 of Dan’s tips from facebook on how to look after your mental health during lockdown. The text of these posts is repeated below in his words.
These tips are based on a tried and tested 5 point wellbeing model. Each weekday will be linked to one point in the model. The points and days related to each one are (click on the link to go straight to the that tip for this week):
1: Connect with people around you - Monday
2: Be active (hopefully an easier one for Eagles!) - Tuesday
4: Give back to the community - Thursday
5: Take notice of your feelings and the world around you - Friday
If you ever want to talk to Dan in private, he is a trained Mental health First Aider and you can reach him on wellbeing@ealingeagles.com.
In the immortal words of Jerry Springer "Look after eachother and yourselves".
Monday - Connect with People
As Monday 25th May was the bank holiday, there was no daily tip.
Hope you were able to connect with people around you!!!
Tuesday - Be active
It's day 21 of my wellbeing at home tips. Today is Tuesday so we are talking about being active.
One for the parents today about keeping you kids active. The link below has strategies to get your kids to stay active during lockdown.
Joe Wicks got a lot of kudos for his morning PE classes but there is much more you can do.
The article also has tips for encouraging teens to stay active. I hope you find it useful
https://patient.info/news-and-features/covid-19-how-to-keep-kids-active-during-coronavirus-lockdown
Wednesday - Keep learning
It's day 22 of my wellbeing at home tips. Today is Wednesday so our tip is about Keeping on Learning.
Do you know about TED Talks? These are short talks by someone who knows what they are talking about on almost anything under the sun. My favourate one is only 8 mins long by Ruby Wax talking about mental health. Here's the link, do watch it its very moving!
https://www.ted.com/talks/ruby_wax_what_s_so_funny_about_mental_illness?language=en
Reason I mention them is that in response to COVID-19 the TED Foundation have created TED Ed, a learning portal for those affected by COVID-19 i.e. everyone.
The structure seems to be focussed around the American schooling system but may be a good resource for a parent looking to (having to) educate their kids at home or someone with a curious mind.
https://ed.ted.com/daily_newsletter
You need to sign up but all content is free.
Thats all for today see you tomorrow
Thursday - Give back to the community
Hello all. It's day 23 of my wellbeing at home tips. It's Thursday today which means we are talking about Giving back to the community.
At a high level this pillar of wellbeing is linked to the fact that feeling part of something bigger is good for our human instincts, pscyhe and wellbeing. Even though from the news it may not seem it, humans are a collaborative bunch and is a big part of why the species was/is dominant.
So what better time for the Eagles taking on the Phillias Fogg challenge of going round the world?
https://www.ealingeagles.com/news/2020/5/26/eagles-around-the-world-in-80-days-challenge
I'd like to encourage those who can run, walk or a mixture of both to take part in this. It starts on the 1st June I believe.
For those who can't do that at the moment for a variety of reasons why not take part in an Around the World Game?
https://icebreakerideas.com/around-the-world-game/
I'll start a thread on this on the 1st and Eagles can join in that. The Mallet's Mallet thread has been going on for 3 or 4 years!
Also since my boardgame related post got a lot of chatter, there are several Round the World boardgames such as this one:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/244951/round-world
You can buy it cheaply online but it's not super well rated :/
thats all for today. See you tomorrow!
You can email me on any mental health related topics at wellbeing@ealingeagles.com
Friday - Take notice
Hello Eagles
It's day 24 of my welbeing at home tips. Today is Fridaaaaay and that means we are talking about Taking notice of your feelings and the world around you.
I know we have lots of avid readers in the group, so I wanted to share this list by Goodreads their best self help / self motivation books. I had heard of many of these but a few were new to me.
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/self-help
How many of the list ahve you read or heard of? If you have read one what did you think of it?
many thanks, hope you have a good weekend
Daniel