{"id":24712,"date":"2020-05-23T23:25:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T23:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24712"},"modified":"2020-05-23T23:25:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T23:25:20","slug":"mental-health-awareness-week-st-ethelwolds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24712","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health Awareness Week &#8211; St Ethelwolds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20052214.jpg\" alt=\"Mental Health Awareness Week - St Ethelwolds\" \/><br \/>\nMental Health Awareness Week was from 18-24th May 2020. The Mind centre in Abingdon is currently closed but Mind in Oxfordshire has online advice about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordshiremind.org.uk\/coronavirus-and-your-wellbeing-2\/\">coronavirus and your wellbeing<\/a>. They also had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordshiremind.org.uk\/virtual-walk-santorini\/\">virtual tour in Santorini<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is my own virtual tour of St Ethelwolds House in East St Helen Street.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20052208.jpg\" alt=\"Mental Health Awareness Week - St Ethelwolds\" \/><br \/>\nThere were five other people there: a mother and child playing on the lawn; two ladies talking at a table, and somebody working on some repairs. Nobody was making much noise and the birds were singing.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20052209.jpg\" alt=\"Mental Health Awareness Week - St Ethelwolds\" \/><br \/>\nMany people are affected emotionally and psychologically by the everyday challenges and worries that the pandemic brings, whether the illness itself, financial worries, living in lockdown, or being asked to go back to work. The Citizen&#8217;s Advice at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizensadvice.org.uk\/health\/coronavirus-what-it-means-for-you\/\">Coronavirus &#8211; what it means for you\/<\/a> includes advice for people worried about going back to work.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20052217.jpg\" alt=\"Mental Health Awareness Week - St Ethelwolds\" \/><br \/>\nMark&#8217;s wildflower meadow at St Ethelwold&#8217;s is named after a young man with Mental Health problems who died tragically after having his benefits cut. Mark loved nature and the garden.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20052212.jpg\" alt=\"Mental Health Awareness Week - St Ethelwolds\" \/><br \/>\nSome of us have found during the lockdown that being in nature can boost our mental wellbeing and ease stress.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20052215.jpg\" alt=\"Mental Health Awareness Week - St Ethelwolds\" \/><br \/>\nSt Ethelwold\u2019s House is a welcoming spiritual centre offering a place of sanctuary and quiet to all.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20052216.jpg\" alt=\"Mental Health Awareness Week - St Ethelwolds\" \/><br \/>\nThere is also a sanctuary room used by a variety of groups. In this virtual tour you could imagine going in there and being still.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mental Health Awareness Week was from 18-24th May 2020. The Mind centre in Abingdon is currently closed but Mind in Oxfordshire has online advice about coronavirus and your wellbeing. They also had a virtual tour in Santorini Here is my own virtual tour of St Ethelwolds House in East St Helen Street. There were five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}