Hope’s Garden for your mental wellbeing
Hope’s garden is a place to be. It’s a place to contemplate, to think and to take care of your mental wellbeing. It’s a place to dream about what might be.
Have a look around at some of the resources here which will help you with your mental wellbeing and help you to be still, to take time, to contemplate and to think.
Experience what being still feels like. Try a new creative approach to emotional and mental wellbeing……or simply watch the ducks!
Journal
Complete the drawing
Download and complete the pictures - any way you choose!
Things I like about me!
Download and complete a motivational stock-take of the things that are great about you.
Motivation
Download and complete a motivational stock-take of your achievement
Images for Inspiration and Contemplation
Wild Horses
You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you. - Isadora Duncan
Mountains
“Everybody wants to reach the peak, but there is no growth on the top of a mountain. It is in the valley that we slog through, the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life’s next peak.” – Andy Andrews
Sunset
“We ourselves feel what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” - Mother Teresa
Follow the path
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress. ― Barack Obama
Trees
Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish." ― Munia Khan
Meditate
Peaceful Piano
Need some space to dial down? Let the peaceful piano music speak to your soul.
Take Your Time
Slow down. Take time to be still. Let the music wash over you and bring you to a place of calm and peace.
Relaxation in 3 Minutes
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Using your Senses to Relax and Unwind
Our friends at COPE Scotland have produced these great videos to help with relaxation. Take a few minutes today to watch and try the techniques. Let us know how you get on!
Spiritual Space
Peaceful Piano
Need some space to dial down? Let the peaceful piano music speak to your soul.
Take Your Time
Slow down. Take time to be still. Let the music wash over you and bring you to a place of calm and peace.
A Guided Christian Mindfulness Practice
Looking for a space to just breathe and to experience God? Richard Johnson leads us in a Christian Mindfulness Practice
I’m not OK but Jesus is
How do we sit with our faith when we really don’t feel OK? What happens when we really don’t know what we feel anymore and when we just want ‘out’? In I’m not OK but Jesus is, Louis Giglio bravely explores the whole topic of suicide from his faith perspectiveLink to...
God, Pain and Suffering
Where is God in the middle of suffering? What does a theologian have to say about it? What’s the ‘Biblical’ view - if there even is one! NT Wright explores the theme in this podcast, talking in plain English which is accessible!Link to Talk on God, Pain and Suffering...
Suffer Strong
Where is God when everything seems to be falling apart? How do we get our heads around suffering? Jay + Katherine Wolf share their experience during a Sunday service at Passion Church, Atlanta.Suffering Strong Talk
