Our Mental Health Awareness Week 2025 Theme: Physical Wellbeing

In some instances, physical wellbeing can mean helping people to engage with healthcare services through things like physical health checks. This can be especially challenging for people experiencing mental distress, which can make it harder for them to prioritise their own health. It might also mean they have had negative experiences accessing health services in the past, so support with making appointments, referrals or understanding test results can be invaluable. Our overarching theme of physical wellbeing will also incorporate the impact living with a long-term physical health condition can have on a person’s mental wellbeing.

Within the broad parameters of the theme, we will also look at activities people can choose to take part in, that support good physical wellbeing. We will discuss the full range of benefits that activities such as gardening and walking can bring, through to team sports, running and perhaps less familiar pastimes, such as wild swimming. We will be sensitive to the fact that not all will appeal, and that different pursuits will feel appropriate and comfortable to different people. We will also look at the positive impact people can feel from learning more about what goes into what we eat and how nutrition can benefit overall wellbeing.

The focus of the week will be led by the people who use our services at Together and we will hear what physical wellbeing means to them. During the week we will share their stories of how hobbies, lifestyle choices and activities or changes relating to physical wellbeing have supported their mental health and wellbeing.