Poems to have by your side as the days shorten and leaves begin to fall
Has the arrival of autumn made you feel anxious? For many of us, it’s a return to a more stressful life after the summer holidays when...
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Rachel Kelly
- Jun 29
- 5 min
The Poetic Power of Nature to Heal our Minds
A hot June day that finds me visiting the Japanese garden in our local park. Enclosed within the grounds, the garden abounds with...
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Rachel Kelly
- Apr 26
- 6 min
Thinking About Spring Poetry
With Spring comes hope. After the gloom of Winter, the days lengthen; the daffodils bloom; the sun reappears. Yet for some,...
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Rachel Kelly
- Mar 21
- 5 min
How poetry can bring people together, and practical ways to do so
Phew. I’m not alone, it seems, in my enthusiasm for poetry’s healing power. No less an organisation than UNESCO (the United Nations...
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Rachel Kelly
- Feb 7
- 4 min
Poems for the Winter of Our Minds
Odd as it might sound, often the most comforting poetry is the darkest. I know this from personal experience, as a mental health advocate...
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Rachel Kelly
- Jan 26
- 4 min
The Therapeutic Power of Poetry: What's the Evidence?
Can poetry help our mental health? In my last piece, I spoke about my personal experiences with poetry, and the life-changing impact it...
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Rachel Kelly
- Dec 8, 2022
- 4 min
The Therapeutic Power of Poetry: My Personal Reflections
Can poetry help our mental health? While I’m convinced of this, so much so that I’ve written a new book on the links between verse and...
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Rachel Kelly
- Jan 7, 2022
- 4 min
How to keep your resolutions this year
How do we make meaningful lifestyle changes that stick and are more than a blink in January’s eye? We know it’s not easy. Studies show...
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Rachel Kelly
- Nov 11, 2020
- 4 min
How words can heal: my journey through depression with the help of poetry
As we adjust to a second lockdown, one musical voice keeps playing in my head: that of Rumi, the thirteenth-century Persian poet and...
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Rachel Kelly
- Apr 24, 2020
- 5 min
TOP TIPS FOR SUSTAINING YOUR MENTAL WELLNESS THROUGH THE CORONA VIRUS
1. Make your bed first thing Every morning, make your bed to your own satisfaction, the duvet nice and straight and the pillows plumped....
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Rachel Kelly
- Jan 29, 2020
- 3 min
Ditch the diets this January, says Rachel Kelly
A New year, and a time when publishers traditionally promote January diet books urging self-restraint after the season of merrymaking....
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Rachel Kelly
- Jun 5, 2019
- 3 min
BEING HAPPY NOT PERFECT
I have spent much of the morning trying to find the right sentence with which to start an article. I am playing with the phrase ‘it is a...
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Rachel Kelly
- May 22, 2019
- 4 min
ESCAPING YOUR COMFORT ZONE
A coldish evening and I am back from a class on how to give a presentation, cradling a mug of celebratory hot chocolate. Even the thought...
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Rachel Kelly
- May 15, 2019
- 4 min
RELAXING PHYSICALLY
A tense body means a tense mind. Equally, if you are physically relaxed, it is impossible to be anything other than mentally relaxed....
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