Uproute takes a look at Laughing Yoga and some of it’s practitioners.
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‘Take grief by the reins’: Q&A with a Bereavement and Grief Counsellor
Photo credit: Kylli Kittus via Unsplash Grief is unavoidable; sooner or later it touches us all, sometimes in small, quiet ways and sometimes in ways that split our lives into 'before' and 'after.' Uproute sat down with Yasmin O’Keeffe a Grief and Bereavement...
Can a weekly run replace traditional therapy spaces for mental health?
In recent years, community-based initiatives have increasingly been explored as alternative forms of mental health support. One of them, Run Talk Run, is a volunteer-led running and walking group designed to create safe, inclusive spaces where people can connect while...
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder and why does it affect millions?
Uproute explores the complex issue of Seasonal Affective Disorder, looking at some of the symptoms behind the depression and ways to overcome it.
5 reasons why meditation can help break harmful mental patterns
Discover the five precise, clinical ways a deliberate meditation practice shrinks your brain’s stress centre, silences your internal worry loop, and allows you to physically rewrite your own mental software.
How heat affects mental health and how best to manage it
Learn how excessive heat contributes to poor mental health and what can be done to manage it on a societal and individual level.
Five things people are quitting to become happier
Here’s five things people are giving up in order to boost their mental wellbeing.
Five reasons why cooking can help rebuild your life
Backed by clinical neuroscience and occupational therapy models, here is how the quiet ritual of cooking provides the ultimate blueprint for psychological recovery and cognitive reconstruction.
More than a meal: How food co-ops can help you beat rising food costs
As supermarket costs climb across the UK food co-ops are providing a new way for communities to access affordable food.
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Three ways of managing stigma effectively
photo: Charles River Recovery One of the most significant barriers to effective recovery from any kind of challenge is that of stigma. Stigma has a profound effect on how systems of any kind organise themselves. What is considered unacceptable or shameful will always...
Charity CEO’s advice for building a life after prison
In the age of the internet, employers often search up candidates online. What do you do if the first thing that comes up is a news article featuring your mugshot? Uproute asked Unlock’s CEO Paula Harriott to help answer questions like this.
Five myths about social exclusion, and what it really means in Britain
Social exclusion is often reduced to poverty, homelessness or personal failure. But in Britain today, it is a wider process of being cut off from work, housing, healthcare, digital access, relationships and public life.