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Who would have guessed just how big our Health Packs would get? Certainly, not us.
Last April, HMHB decided they wanted to be part of the mental health intervention, but we wanted to do something different to anyone else. We like to forge our own path. So we decided to come up with a weekly health pack, focusing on promoting a growth mind-set mentality, guiding people on nutritional information to keep the body functioning properly, describing various ways people could be active and exercise, and provide health information on many subjects that are relevant to well being and overall good health. We also mixed it up with recipes, quizzes, online classes, and much more.
From an original 10 pages, it grew to a weekly 26 pages pack, that went around the world, was shared with multiple organisations, companies, and individuals. It was posted to people, delivered to people and emailed to people. In the end there were over 200 email addresses, and we know we reached over 2000 people weekly due to the sharing of other organisations.
Feedback was stunning. The resident psychologist for a mental health charity in Islington told us the packs were terrific, for example. Above is a photo of one of our amazing walkers and exercise users, Angela, who is in her 80s, reading a copy in her front garden!!!
Eventually, we did 50 weekly packs, and felt that was pretty good. We were soon contacted by various people asking for us to continue to provide something, so we decided to launch a Monthly Health Pack instead, the first issue coming out three days ago for May - 36 pages of our unique assistance. We are not psychiatrists, psychologists, or case workers. But we do have history of overcoming some huge mental obstacles, and people seem to love the way we share our knowledge.
All 50 of the weekly packs are in PDF form on our website. www.hmhb2016.org.uk
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