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Improving the mental health of haulage drivers is one of the most pressing and yet widely ignored issues in Britain today. The United Kingdom relies on no other group of workers as much to provide us with the lives we want. They deliver 98 percent of all food and agricultural products in the UK, according […]
Haulage Drivers are Suffering in Silence Read More »
Words By: Diane Waldron Follow the Battling Suicide Tour and help us make a difference on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter ! Yesterday was not an ordinary day. Not by a long shot. Over the last few months I’ve been helping 5asideCHESS put together a Battling Suicide Bus UK tour. I’ve planned, written press releases, listened to Ross and Ryan’s stories
Guest Post: Chess, mates and ham and cheese sandwiches…. Read More »
Follow the Battling Suicide Tour and help us make a difference on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter ! Brand new rain falling on old dirty summer follows me on a run through Durham. That fresh smell of earth and gravel and England. After a nine days on the Battling Suicide Tour my brain is cotton wool. We have met so many
#4 Is the Death of Gods Killing Us? Read More »
Follow the Battling Suicide Tour and help us make a difference on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter ! I’m standing in the sun crying. I don’t do this often. It’s not something I regularly take part in. Usually I like to gently smirk in these conditions. “Look,” I smirk. “It’s sunny again in England.” But today
#2 Crying in a Field in Sheffield Read More »
I’ve just been standing over there, next to the little silver bin in the kitchen, biting my nails down one by one. Fingers, not toes, don’t worry. It’s time to try and make this blog make sense with my new litter of naked mole rats at the end of my palms. Flecked green paint skirts
Ryan’s Blog: Lost in A Bookshop Read More »
We are all submerged, even now the clocks have turned, in the liquid ideas of after-dark. Away from anything solid or true, blowing hot air at ourselves. Rushing on worries about our social media lives and the jobs we do to make other people rich. Am I doing well enough? Moving fast enough? Is it
The Selfishness of Helping Read More »
At 5asideCHESS we believe strongly in the art of conversation as a prevention and cure, short or long term, to poor mental health in all of its capacities. As part of our Handling Headspace Series, we asked three people to offer their best tips on dealing with Anxiety. Here is the first by a young
Tips to Beat Anxiety – Your Anxiety is Not in Control Read More »
Ally looks into the beginnings of social media and how it’s turned us all into self serving what-ya-call-its, devoid of emotional attachment and unable to shake an obsession with creating new personalities and lives online. And, of course, with that problem we are offering our solution, the very excellent 5asideCHESS Pack ! Buy one and
Ally Explores our Narcissistic, Social Media Driven World – 5asideChess can help ! Read More »
