“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become” - Carl Gustav Jung
This year Mind has chosen to focus our World Mental Health Day celebrations on the unique capabilities that people with lived experience bring to mental health and wellbeing recovery.
By Cassi Strauss – Mind Australia peer practitioner.
To mark Mental Health Week (9-16 October) members of Mind Australia’s Lived Experience Advisory Team are sharing their wellbeing tips based on their own personal experiences.
The Mind Australia-managed headspace service in Greensborough encouraged young people to slow down and take time to prioritise their mental health at their recent National headspace Day celebration.
Mind Australia will continue to support people who experienced homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic thanks to a funding extension for the From Homelessness to a Home program, announced by the Victorian government.
Mind Australia will lead the development of an innovative new residential mental health recovery support service in Victoria in which people with lived experience will play a central role.