Grow Mental Health Podcast: Gratitude
Join Jenny and Grow member Christine for a discussion on gratitude. Why is it important? How can it help you on your journey to wellness? What does a gratitude practice look like to you?
Looking to the Future for Recovery
When we look forward, instead of back, are we better poised for recovery and growth? Some inteesting opintions on the future of psychology including our own National Program Coordinator, Andrea Best.
Grow Mental Health Podcast: Letting Go
Join Jenny, Emily, and Thomas for a raw and honest look at letting go for mental health. We talk about how to identify the things that are no longer healthy for us, how our Grow groups help us in the process of letting go, and what the world can look like when you are able to shed those habits, relationships, resentments that are holding your back from your own growth and recovery.
Grow Mental Health Podcast: Truth
Join Jenny, Grow Member Myles and member and Area Coordinator Michelle as they discuss truth as the key to change, connection, integrity, and so much more. Myles and Michelle share their difficult journeys to living their truth. This one is not to be missed!
Grow Mental Health Podcast: Leadership
Join Jenny and Grow Member John and Grow National Volunteer Coordinator Mary for a discussion about the barriers to leadership and the role leadershiop plays in the Grow Program. In Grow, we see everyone as a leader with both the capability and responsibility to take on leadership roles.
John’s Story
After a childhood where he experienced loss and bullying, John struggled with his mental health later in life. In finding his way out of anxiety and depression, John found Grow. Thank you, John for this honest, generous, and heartfelt story of your life so far.
Grow Mental Health Podcast: Inclusion
Join Jenny and Grow Member John O’L as they discuss exclusion, the power of including everyone, and how to teach ourselves to be even more inclusive. Each person’s recovery or growth aids the transformation of the world. No exceptions.
Grow Mental Health Podcast: Integrity
Join Jenny, Treasa and Andy as we discuss integrity in the context of Grow Mental Health. Growing is finding and keeing your truest self. Why is this so challenging sometimes?
The Glow of Grow
A poem that beautifully captures Philomena’s journey in Grow Mental Health.
Grow Mental Health Podcast: Support
Join Jenny, Patricia and Gearoid as we discuss support in the context of Grow Mental Health. Support both given and received is the glue that holds our groups together and paves the way to recovery.
Mental Health Recovery Outcomes in Mental Health National Report (Ireland) 2020
Created by Fiona Daly and Seyi Akinleye.
There are some positive findings for GMH in relation to longer term Members reporting more positive recovery outcomes for four indicators. In particular, Members who were attending Grow for one year or more were significantly more likely to report the following (compared to Members for less than one year):
being less severely affected by their mental health symptoms
better coping with their emotional or mental health well-being
not to have experienced a relapse of mental health symptoms in the last year
Finally, Members attending Grow for more than 5 years were significantly more likely to report not being hospitalised in the last year compared to Members attending for less than one year and between one and five years (page 33).
Grow Mental Health Podcast: Change
Our first podcast of 2022 examines the concept of Change within to context of the Grow Porgram. We are joined by Michael, a Grow member from the Cavan/Monaghan area and Kate – one of our Grow Area Coordinators, and Grow member.