With the growth of the mental health sector comes a new and necessary conversation: the role of People with Lived Experience (PWLE). People with Lived Experience are individuals who have personally lived with a mental health condition, navigated recovery, cared for someone with mental illness or survived experiences… Read more: The Heartbeat July Edition

This is the first of many newsletters coming your way from and we are so grateful to begin this journey with you. Heart to Heart Spaces is dedicated to creating safe and compassionate spaces where individuals can heal, share their stories, and find hope through meaningful conversations about… Read more: Stories of Healing & Hope from Heart To Heart Spaces.

LAYING THE FOUNDATION. The brain is the brain, psychology is psychology and diagnosis is diagnosis, and yes, mental health is often presented as universal. But human beings do not exist outside culture. If anything, we suffer in cultural contexts. Across Africa, a concept once whispered is now stepping… Read more: AFRICANISING MENTAL HEALTH- AN EIGHT PART SERIES

Depression a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act. It causes feelings of sadness and/or a loss of interest in activities you once enjoyed and can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems and… Read more: Coping with depression

Oftentimes, our understanding of PTSD trickles down from War movies. And although these often provide insight, we do not get a full visual on the condition which then affects how we perceive and understand it. And one key factor to understanding mental health conditions is to relentlessly learn… Read more: PTSD: DIVERGING FACT FROM FICTION.