Journal
The Running Late Club 🏃🏻♀️ 🏃🏾♂️⏱
In the lead up to our DIY Culture Challenge to mark World Mental Health Day, we are speaking to some of the communities that are joining the initiative and add some flavour to proceedings.
Be More You - Surrey Three Peaks
This has been a tough year or two for people around the world, and we’re coming up to World Mental Health Day on the 10th of October.
One thing that helps us deal with this pressure is the support of others, that helps us approach the challenges that life gives us. Last year Be More You and Love Trails put on a Virtual Race & Wellbeing Festival with lululemon. This year, the aim is for different groups, crews and individuals to challenge themselves and celebrate the values that are important to them.
Defining Mental Health
The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines mental health as: ‘A state of well-being in which every individual realises his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully and is able to make a contribution to her or his community’.
The Power of Community
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.
Mindfulness
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.
Houseplants Care 🌱
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. 🦋
World Mental Health Day - 2020
On World Mental Health Day, Saturday 10th October 2020, Be More You x Love Trails collaborated to host a Virtual Run and Wellbeing Festival.
It had been a tough year for us all due to the pandemic, many races had been cancelled and we have had a lot to contend with both personally and professionally. So, we thought it would be a good idea to create a truly global event that would unite us all.
The Be More You Story
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.