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.
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.
Marie’s Story
People come to their first Grow meeting for many reasons. Marie’s story is her own, but might sound familiar to so many. Read here how Grow Mental Helath helped Marie to feel connected and strong after a very difficult time in her lfe.
War Zone
by Maria Living with mental illness is a lot like living in a firing range. There are bullets, in the form of mood swings, anxiety, and fear being fired around and above you. Sometimes the noise of the bullets becomes dull and barely discernable. This is the ceasefire we longed, hoped and prayed for. The […]
You Must Pass
By Seamus Sharkey Kelly Ireland: You must pass your leaving cert, you must get the Points, you must, you must. Oh and sorry there’s no place for you in college?? But here’s another reality: it’s not the end of the world if you don’t pass, I know only too well. I don’t have a group cert I […]
September 2021 Newsletter
Positive Living
By James Corcoran, Claremorris Group When I came to live in Limerick in August 1979, I found it hard to settle in, Up to that time I did things on impulse and this was not a good way to solve problems. Then I began to go to Grow meetings and people there helped me […]
August 2021 Newsletter
Step 11 – 12 Steps of Recovery & Growth
Relationship Breakups
By Caroline Crotty We enter romantic relationships giving our trust and our hearts to another with the hope that neither will be broken. The reality is that most of us know how it feels to have our hearts broken or at least scarred or dented! People of every age attend counselling or psychotherapy following the […]
Step 11 – Growing daily closer to maturity
By Maria As a child of the sixties. large classrooms were commonplace. There were fifty-four pupils in my class and one teacher. It was easy to feel invisible, and as a quiet child voiceless and unimportant. The louder children drowned out my attempts to speak, and I lost confidence in who I was. I came […]