2020 Update!

Hello my friends!

It has been a while.

And I apologise for that. You see, through the end of 2019 up until now…things got a liiiiiiittle bit dark and gloomy my side!

I already suffer from quite bad season depression, but this bout was pretty intense. Things at home have been a struggle (REMINDER: I have a 3 year old and a 1 year old.) and that mixed with SAD and the usual Christmas stresses caused me to become quite isolated and lose all creative spark. I then tried to fake push it, and that didn’t work either.

But here we are. Its the 25th of January and its nearly 10pm. And I am writing to you to tell you about new things that we definitely truly have coming up!

Firstly, lets cover what we DID do at the end of 2019. I held my first two Mental Health events and even managed to raise over £100 for the Mental Health Foundation! YAY! Thank you to everyone who came to the events, donated, and a massive thank you to all the companies that donated prizes to the raffle we held!

And moving on from those events, I am going to be hosting a whole sleu of new shin-digs this year. The first of which I announced today over on the Lionminded Facebook Page. Its a monthly Mental Health Morning at Pearls Coffee Shop in Swansea. And its a MAAAAANS WORLD. Yup, its a little Mental Health Breakfast Club for Dudes. So all you wonderful Dudes and Dads with Depression can get together and help beat that Stigma that seems to be more prevalent in Men than Women.

I did try a similar thing for both Guys and Gals. But it didn’t do much numbers - so i am heading back to the drawing board with that one. So watch this space on that one.

I also have a load of new posts all saved in my Drafts. So expect those to pop up soon too!

My main goals for 2020 are

a) Less Thinking, More Doing.

b) Keep on with more local events and move into starting local Workshops.

The second part of those goals may start requiring a bit of money in the ol’ Lionminded jar. So to help with that - I will be opening the Lionminded Online Store very soon. I’ve got 2 t-shirts all ready to go, as well as some other little bits and pieces that I am working on!

So thank you all for sticking with me through this intense Season Depression. And Lets look forward to a brilliant 2020 and an even bigger Lionminded.

Keep on showing me that #LionStateOfMind and make sure y’all stay golden.

- Joel