Are the rates of mental health conditions increasing in your school? Are you starting to feel overwhelmed and at a loss as to how to manage or reverse this trend?
Many schools are experiencing these issues across the country and it is making it very difficult for teachers to focus on delivering outstanding teaching and learning. Staff are also showing increasing signs of burnout and drop out from teaching partly due to the difficult conditions but also due to their own mental health issues.
Working to improve mental wellbeing is a central part of the Lifestyle First programme. Building awareness of the way humans are adapted to cope with stress and highlighting how our modern environments are problematic not our biology is a game changer! Once people get this they approach their mental health condition in a completely different light.
Mental and physical health are both just physiology and we cannot separate them into different root causes anymore! Metabolic dysfunction and inflammation (neuroinflammation) are an underlying factor in 90% of our chronic health conditions including anxiety, depression, diabetes and neurodivergent symptoms and we need to start looking much more holistically if we are going to redress the balance and improve the mental wellbeing of our communities.
If you would like to understand more about how Lifestyle First can support improved mental health in your school please click here.
Click here to get a sample of some resources and some suggested reading to improve wellbeing. – leads to a page with resources or better to have the resources underneath? Would be a selection of books/ podcasts and Lifestyle First resources