A Founder Blog Hey PIN Family! These last few months have been the most busy we have ever been. We have launched our one-hour mental health workshops and have been providing these free of charge for keyworkers – (we have space 1st July 11am if you want a slot!) We Continue Reading
In light of the current global health pandemic, many of you are now working from home which can be a shock to the system. Before the current circumstances came into action, Team PoetsIN have always worked remotely from home unless we were out delivering our Creative Mental Health Programme™. We’re Continue Reading
Part One Eighteen months ago I made a startling discovery that changed my life. Not only my future life but also my past life. Or at least the past eighteen or nineteen years of it. I’ll tell you about that shortly but first I want to say that this is Continue Reading
A while back I wrote an article about writer’s block called “Writing and the Dead Bedroom Phenomena”. In it, I discussed practical ways to alleviate this particular condition. I likened it to a relationship which needed spicing up and discussed specific habits by which to do this. Now I’d like Continue Reading
Welcome back to our blog series “Have You Watched a Good Book Lately?” The series’ intention is to track a number of books’ progression from the printed page to the silver screen and assess how well or how badly the filmmakers accomplished each of the adaptations. Today we’re going to Continue Reading
The idea of life being a celebration of the ‘journey’ and not the ‘destination’ is not a particularly new concept, I see it bounced around in quotes on Pinterest and on the web in various forms, but it can so easily be overused and its meaning lost and diluted. I Continue Reading
In the UK, men are three times as likely to take their own lives than women. Whilst the number is starting to decrease through the erosion of the stigma attached to talking about our mental health; men are still accounting for 75% of suicides. PoetsIN are on a mission to Continue Reading
Everyone has a story to tell; each one of us a writer of poetry – some, without even realising. That stream of consciousness that runs in our veins? It’s poetry waiting to be written. We believe in the power of words, and that power is what urged us to set Continue Reading
For today’s Mental Health Monday we have a guest blog on writer’s block from the unique and truly wonderful person that is Harlequin Grim. Writing and the Dead Bedroom Phenomena Unfortunately I am not here to propose a solution to your marital woes through the power of writing. If Continue Reading
Sadness is not the same feeling as being depressed. At one point or the other, everyone gets depressed like when you don’t pass an interview for your dream job, or when a friend dies. Depression, however, is like a sort of fog that hangs over you. It’s a cloud that Continue Reading
