From the best advice you’ll ever get to the joy of crisps, the 101 brilliant contributors to The Book of Hope will help you to find hope whenever you need it most. Award-winning mental health campaigner Jonny Benjamin, MBE, and co-editor Britt Pflüger bring together people from all walks of life – actors, musicians, athletes, psychologists and activists – to share what gives them hope.
Read MoreTopshop, Topman and long-term charity partner, the Campaign Against Living Miserably, launch the Care Sewn In initiative and 13-piece capsule collection to coincide with World Mental Health Day and their Let What’s Inside Out campaign.
Read MoreI wrote about my experience with failure and disappointment, where it took me, and what I learned from it for Issue 46 of The Essential Journal in association with The Campaign Against Living Miserably.
Read MoreIn an editorial centred around the menswear industry, I wrote about dressing well and the impact it has on mental well-being. @photographybymiles shot some of London’s most prominent tailors, brands, writers, bloggers and content makers, and I spoke to them all about their individual stories. From struggles and experiences with depression, anxiety, body dysmorphia to why dressing well has helped them in an otherwise cutthroat industry.
Read MoreAs part of #MoreThanABarber, Murdock have trained some of their staff in Mental Health First Aid, and are selling an exclusive CALM grooming kit. Decent. I went down to Murdock, camera in hand, to find out more and to recount my experiences of the barbershop environment. Featured in the shoot are Anthony Komodikis and Singh Gentry.
Read MoreBoys get sad, too. They get quiet. They allow themselves to become alienated. They isolate themselves. They say they hate themselves. They question their existence. They brush it off. They pick themselves up. They carry on.
Read MoreWhat purpose does depression serve? What good does it do? Why does it have this particular effect? Why does it exist? What, ultimately, is depression anyway? Is it a personal experience that only you and you alone can truly understand? Or is it a blanket term for anyone going through a difficult time? I discuss why the conversation around depression is imperative to find our purpose.
Read MoreFor the final shoot of 2017, I styled two outfits around my Turnbull & Asser check blazer as well as took a look back at the year.
Read MoreFollowing discussion around World Mental Health Day, I wrote a few words sharing my thoughts on how we can progress through the struggle of depression. It's good to be reminded now and then.
Read MoreHaving been diagnosed with depression in 2012, I wanted to know more about it all. Why people felt depressed, what made them feel depressed and ultimately how I could fix it.
Read MoreAt this point in time I am almost certainly the busiest I’ve ever been, and I’ve almost definitely got the least to show for it. Whereas in the past, my work was very much tangible, recently I’ve found myself running around like a headless chicken for 90% of my day and still have a full to-do list at the end of it.
So, what’s the scenario?
Read MoreAs time goes by, it’s understandable to forget how much you’ve changed over the years. I never thought I’d get to the day where my first place to write, vent and exhale would be here—online—as opposed to my notepad. The added irony being, I opened the pad and wrote, “Sometimes you just need to write things down” and then immediately jumped on my laptop. There’s never enough time for writing these days, even though there’s no real time cap. We’re caught up in this perpetual rush fuelled by absolutely nothing but ourselves.
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