Kate Birch-Scanlan

Climbing Out of a Well with Wellies On Kate Birch-Scanlan

If you want to improve your mental health or support someone else who is struggling with theirs, read this book! The essential guide to mental wellbeing, a fourteen step guide which brings together over 25 years of lived experience of mental health conditions. Whether you live with a mental health condition yourself (no matter how big or small you feel it is), know or live with somebody who is struggling with thier mental health, or wish to improve the quality of your own life, 'Climbing Out of a Well With Wellies On' will help you on the journey to recovery. As the name suggests having a mental illness can feel like climbing out of a well with wellies on and when tough times arise on top of struggling with mental ill health, it can then feel like rain has fallen, creating slippery sides to the well making it even more difficult to climb out and into daylight. Kate has used this analogy to create fourteen easy steps that can be incorpated gradually over time into daily life. Each of the steps acts like adding another set of grips to the soles of the wellies which enables you to successfully, over time as more grips (steps) are added to climb out of the well or at least be in less darkness. About the Author - When her own health began to fail and mainstream menthods of treatment were missing something Kate Birch-Scanlan knew that she needed to do something to promote her own healing and recovery. Using her education in Biochemistry, Nutritional Therapy and Energy Therapies combined with extensive lived experience on both sides of the fence, she put together fourteen steps that can be incorporated into everyday life to enable individuals to live positively with and heal from mental illness. Discover how a multi-disiplined approach to recovery is the best way forward. The significance of the breath on the nervous system. How diet can reduce anxiety, depression and balance mood. Easy meals that promote brain health. The significance of the gut microbiome. How negative self-talk can be managed. The importance of exercise, socialising and sleep and how you can effectively improve these areas. How logging your progress will keep you on track. That you have more power than you know!