Brew Monday

Episode 1. Brew Monday

Feeling down or having low mood doesn’t just happen on Mondays in January. Our mental health can be tested at any time during the year.

In this edition of When Life Gives You Lemons hosts Joanna Young and the Rev Ian Dewar hear more about what mental health actually means.

Gemma Wright, Practice Development Nurse and Professional Nurse Advocate for the Bay area, works for Lancashire and South Cumbria Foundation Trust and offers an insight into mental health services as well as five practical tips for better mental health.

We’re also joined by members of Citizens Advice North Lancashire’s specialist mental health team. Dave, Maria and Gully tell us more about the wide variety of people who come for help and reveal how they’ve managed to get debt worth £1.2m written off in less than a year.

This edition is one of a mini-series of three we’ve produced for you covering the subject of mental health. Check out Help is Close and Joanna’s conversation with her musician brother Frank who has written about his own experiences of mental health.

Also Gemma features in this podcast produced for The Bay HealthFestivals:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4dewNRq62babaJtTQH95CP?si=r7LSdIgDStuf-UGUjQprIw

If you live in Furness you may also enjoy this Bay Health Festival podcast about Mind In Furness who are developing an allotment on Walney as part of a scheme to promote better mental health:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/42LkhcWY2QnR79e1e7w09D?si=MpsddT9jQZSu5qP-gYSmqw

If you or someone you know needs urgent mental health support call 0800 0130710.

Show notes:

1 min 55” Is this podcast for me?

4 mins Meet Gemma Wright

6 mins How do mental health staff look after themselves?

11 mins The five steps to mental wellbeing

15 mins Meet Citizens Advice North Lancashire Mental Health Matters

team: https://www.northlancashirecab.org.uk/news/where-can-i-get-

help-with-my-mental-health

19 mins How patience pays off, we hear how one client managed to find a

new lease of life after months of support.

33 mins Joanna and Ian consider how the Bay area has a wide range of

support on offer.