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Day 16 #ElfieAdvent – Coping with Bereavement at Christmas

Action Mental Health’s Elfie Advent Calendar has been filled with fun, entertaining and amusing anecdotes and information to help you wade through Christmas 2020 –a year with a difference. But


Day 15 #ElfieAdvent – A real-life ‘elf’ is out on the loose in Lisburn!

To raise money for Action Mental Health We all know and love the cheeky elves-on-the-shelves that cause endless fun and mayhem in people’s homes in the run-up to Christmas. But


Day 14 #ElfieAdvent – Merry Christmas from AMH everyBODY

Day 14 #ElfieAdvent – Merry Christmas from AMH everyBODY

AMH everyBODY project workers, Deborah & Erin today share with us some of the things they are grateful for and most looking forward to this Christmas. After a difficult year,


Day 13 #ElfieAdvent Art Benefits

For AMH everyBODY’s Project Worker Deborah McCready, drawing is her happy place. It eases the stresses and strains of the day and helps her switch off for a while. Like


Day 12 #ElfieAdvent – Comb the beach for untold treats and treasures

Physical activity is often an effective, tangible way you can help to support your mental health. Science has proven its benefits, and from stress-busting and tension control to boosting your


Day 10 #ElfieAdvent – introducing Walshy McWalshface, the Good Mental Elf!

If you can’t do something whimsical at Christmas, when can you? Especially this Christmas, which comes at a time when the world has been gripped by worries related to the


Day 9 #ElfieAdvent Spreading some cheer!

Festive mementos mark year’s highlights Every year, AMH New Life Counselling’s Elaine Gormley buys a Christmas tree decoration or bauble that marks something important that has taken place that year.


Day 8 #ElfieAdvent – Let’s go to the Movies!

Today some of our staff have been recommending their favourite Christmas Movies Elaine Gormley, a counsellor in AMH New Life Counselling:- I love Christmas but understand it is also a