Relationships and social connections are crucial to meaningful lives.

Too often we lead our lives as individuals, where each person is on a mission to steer their own ship of happiness to shore. This is unrealistic as we are social animals and are hard-wired to bond and depend on fellow humans.

Whenever we get so upset that we say or do something we later regret (and who doesn’t now and then?), that’s a sure sign that our amygdala - the brains radar for danger and the trigger for fight-or-flight response - has hijacked the brain’s executive centres in the prefrontal cortex. The neural key to resilience lies in how quickly we recover from that hijacked state.

Next Monday we are kicking off our nature themed Mental Wellbeing Festival to mark Mental Health Awareness Week with a specially curated ‘houseplants care’ webinar in association with the lovely team at Jar & Fern. 🦋

Be More You was formed around World Mental Health Day in October 2018, after founding members Rob Ellis and Sha Hussain had a conversation about their mental wellbeing one Thursday evening after a track session at Mile End stadium. They both run with the bustling Track East running community in East London, and it is tradition to end up at the Rusty Bike pub in Mile End for drinks and a meal after track session.