New Choices

Personalisation means choice and control

Renewed motivation to reach my goal

Individual budgets the vital key

Now I’m empowered happy and free

Direct payments have helped me

With the life that I live

Now I feel I have far more to give

A reason to get out of bed each day

Our needs all differ but that’s ok

New choices flexibility

Places to go and people to see

A PA whose a friend to share my days

Providing help and support in so many ways

I look to the future with new found hope

A new quality of life has helped me to cope

There’s no more need to keep raising our voices

The future is bright we’ve been given NEW CHOICES

Criteria

 

 

 

Criteria:

With good mental health I have…

Our aim is for people to share and gain ideas of how to achieve good mental health through creativity. The website also signposts organisations that can support and save lives.

 

  • Imagine yourself with good mental health, what would you have in your life?
  • If you currently have good mental health, what helps you to maintain it?

 

The rethinkyourmind project is aimed at both children and adults. We aim to encourage everyone to discuss mental health issues openly while focusing on positive ways forward.

 

Register and Submit click here:

 

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Here are some words from the SISO toolkit that could help you meet the project criteria:

 

Transformational Language

  • Active
  • Affectionate
  • Appreciative
  • Articulate
  • Artistic
  • Balanced
  • Blissful
  • Calm
  • Capable
  • Caring
  • Clever
  • Compassionate
  • Confident
  • Confident
  • Considerate
  • Creative
  • Deserving
  • Dynamic
  • Ecstatic
  • Enthusiastic
  • Euphoric
  • Exciting
  • Fair
  • Flexible
  • Fulfilled
  • Funny
  • Gentle
  • Happy
  • Intelligent
  • Interesting
  • Intuitive
  • Joyful
  • Kind
  • Lighthearted
  • Likeable
  • Loveable
  • Loving
  • Passionate
  • Patient
  • Peaceful
  • Positive
  • Proud
  • Relaxed
  • Responsible
  • Responsive
  • Self-aware
  • Sensitive
  • Serene
  • Strong
  • Supportive
  • Tactful
  • Tender
  • Thoughtful
  • Tolerant
  • Trusting
  • Understanding
  • Unique
  • Warm

See the flowers beneath your feet – BOOK SELECTION

 

Cut out the sickness

Take out the pain

Make positive the memories

Don’t let it happen again

 

Bask in the day

Move forward in the sunlight

Raise your head above the clouds

Taste the raindrops, don’t cry

 

Reach forward and dream

Hold on

Recognise

See the love

Be thankful

 

See what’s beneath you

Touch what goes past you

Feel at home

Long for what’s your own

 

Feel hope

Make dreams and plans

Wishes and make believes to escape

Not looking for answers there already here

Holiday in happiness, don’t run away in fear

 

You understand already

Peal away the skin

Scrub away the dirt

Accept and feel real

 

Agree to try again

Stand still, accept

Stop running, breathe

Make do and mend

 

 

MishMash2 collects a handmade hardback book

She will be presented with this at the House of Lords on the 1st May 2013

 

Congratulations from all of us at !!

wrethinkyourmind logo

 

Her work will feature in The Yellow Book going nationwide

 

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Selected Poetry Entries for The Yellow Book please click the titles to view:

 

 

  1. I Feel Life – Ella Zellaby – Rochester Kent
  2. This World – Stephanie Rose – Bo’ness Scotland
  3. Lift Your Voice – David Holloway – Bedford
  4. Mirror – Saiqa Parveen – Halifax
  5. With Good Mental Health – Anne Broadbent – West Yorkshire
  6. Meadering – Peter McGrath – Essex
  7. Senses – Jade Tullet – Berkshire
  8. The Wren – Ian Curtress – Cheltenham
  9. Recovery – Lesley Burt – Dorset
  10. A Home in my Head – Karen Mason – Surrey
  11. Freedom is Ours – Gemma Rose – East Sussex
  12. Beauty – Debee Ebeneezer – Nottingham
  13. It is Ok – Suzanne Bate – Liverpool
  14. Happiness is Gratitude – Lisa Barry – Rhondda Cynon Taft
  15. I’ve Changed – Louise Gillett – Christchurch Dorset
  16. Sunny Side Up – Karim Harvey – London
  17. Proud to be me – Denise Claxton – Essex
  18. Daylight after Rain – John Campbell – London
  19. I Can See The Colour and I Can Feel The Sun – Elizabeth Aldous – Luton
  20. Free To Be Me – Diana Hayes – Abergavenny
  21. Bus Journey – Safoora Masood – Halifax
  22. There Once Was a Young Girl From Wales – Katy Young – Flintshire
  23. See the Flowers Beneath Your Feet – Anonymous
  24. I Know – Kauser Parveen – Halifax

 

Congratulations from all of us at !!

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Proud To Be Me – BOOK SELECTION

Sat amongst the pigeons

In old Londons Trafalgar Square

I’m the 1 in 4 in the crowd

With the breeze in my hair

 

Old Lord Nelson watches over me

Stands tall and proud

He looks down on me

As I stand out in a crowd

But I’m proud to be me

 

I’m forever chasing pavements

It keeps the voices from my head

Wandering through the streets of London

Beats being at home stuck in bed

And I’m proud to be me

 

I mustn’t grumble

I mustn’t moan

I’m a free spirit

As I walk alone

I’ve beaten the demons

Accepted who I am

I’m standing tall and proud

I’m proud to be me

 

And when Old Lord Nelson looks down on me

I raise my hat and smile

With a clear mind

I’ll walk that extra mile

As I’m proud to be me

 

 

Denise collects a handmade hardback book

She will be presented with this at the House of Lords on the 1st May 2013

 

Congratulations from all of us at !!

wrethinkyourmind logo

 

Her work will feature in The Yellow Book going nationwide

 

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Selected Poetry Entries for The Yellow Book please click the titles to view:

 

 

  1. I Feel Life – Ella Zellaby – Rochester Kent
  2. This World – Stephanie Rose – Bo’ness Scotland
  3. Lift Your Voice – David Holloway – Bedford
  4. Mirror – Saiqa Parveen – Halifax
  5. With Good Mental Health – Anne Broadbent – West Yorkshire
  6. Meadering – Peter McGrath – Essex
  7. Senses – Jade Tullet – Berkshire
  8. The Wren – Ian Curtress – Cheltenham
  9. Recovery – Lesley Burt – Dorset
  10. A Home in my Head – Karen Mason – Surrey
  11. Freedom is Ours – Gemma Rose – East Sussex
  12. Beauty – Debee Ebeneezer – Nottingham
  13. It is Ok – Suzanne Bate – Liverpool
  14. Happiness is Gratitude – Lisa Barry – Rhondda Cynon Taft
  15. I’ve Changed – Louise Gillett – Christchurch Dorset
  16. Sunny Side Up – Karim Harvey – London
  17. Proud to be me – Denise Claxton – Essex
  18. Daylight after Rain – John Campbell – London
  19. I Can See The Colour and I Can Feel The Sun – Elizabeth Aldous – Luton
  20. Free To Be Me – Diana Hayes – Abergavenny
  21. Bus Journey – Safoora Masood – Halifax
  22. There Once Was a Young Girl From Wales – Katy Young – Flintshire
  23. See the Flowers Beneath Your Feet – Anonymous
  24. I Know – Kauser Parveen – Halifax

 

Congratulations from all of us at !!

wrethinkyourmind logo

 

survivor

My flesh is grass,

Trapped by dismissal,

Held under force by the blocks of convention.

But my roots are deep-set

In artisitic subversion

And I will thrust through

With the songs of dissension.

My spears will disrupt

The simple, the brutal

For I hold the seeds of

The complex, the fruitful.

Positive After Mental Illness

Wide awake and positive
Bring on my day
I don’t need sunshine
To keep the storm at bay

The worlds my oyster
I’ve got a new day to breathe
I’ll embrace lifes riches
In me I’ll believe

I’ll greet each and every day
Thinking I too have survived
Reflect of the miracle that I am
Thinking it’s good to be alive

‘Alive’

‘Alive’

by Daniel Hunter

 

With good mental health I have got up at a reasonable hour.

left my bedroom. talked to my family faced the world With good mental health I have got on a bus gone to the shops gone swimming and to the cinema

With good mental health I have Stood on my two feet Lived in my own place.

Made nice friends. Made the right choices.

With good mental health I have completed diplomas joined groups and clubs worked in a charity shop secured paid work

With good mental health I have looked out for others the dad that did so much for me the friend that supported me and found a fragile peace

With good mental health I have quietened the voices in my head soothed the paranoia eased the anxiety stilled a restless mind. With good mental health I have accepted my limitations overcome expectations found my path And myself With good mental health I have woken from my death sleep. And finally come ALIVE.

anti-mask

…prayed for the spirit to make amends…

then in the silences,we spoke

of you, the loved and lovely ones

who’d known the heights

through depths unsounded

and knowing strength,

in weakness foundered;

who knew yourselves

through a world unbounded.

You knew of life in deathly tones:

-how in resilience, you broke

the anti-mask that never ends…

stasis

we

calm

no word

together

in no place

filling in a space

that time would jump

no word about the world

that talks about the weather

in the cafe by the rubbish dump

a serentan refuge where we’re curled

breathes softly in the ripples of the sea

I am sure you’d start to think this is absurd

and I am quite convinced we never did do any harm

but then you’d say that this doesn’t have to come from me

Awakening

Awakening I can carry a thought through thick and thin.

Stop by choice, not only when falling.

Hear my heart beat to see new beauty.

Speak out, that I may be more than dusty darkness or a gap between others.

Now I hold my inner light; Lift it high and bring myself outward.

I carry treasure revealed in unexpected places.

Glitters and gold? Yes, I have plenty; Both the stars, (which always hung in the night sky) and the sun, (which persisted in rising, though I would rather sleep).

Yes, I have reason to move forward. I have life within and life around I have colour, texture, and the ground is not so steep now.