Poetry How It Might Become An Unexpected Part Of Your Mental Health Toolkit

This Meaningful Conversation brings together someone who found poetry was a way through severe depression, and a distinguished poet and filmmaker, to talk about why and how poetry can help our emotional well-being. Rachel Kelly (author, ambassador for SANE and Rethink Mental Illness) and Pele Cox (writer, filmmaker, and former poet in residence at the Royal Academy) will talk about their experiences, and about how reading and sharing poetry (Rachel) and writing it (Pele) can unlock and explore feelings in deep and meaningful ways. This one-hour conversation follows Rachel’s book about the therapeutic power of poetry ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone: Poems for Life’s Ups and Downs They discuss the poems that can help and why, as well as sharing thoughts on how to write poetry, how to read it, how to memorise it, and practical ways to make verse an unexpected part of your mental health toolkit and your everyday life - helping with everything from insomnia to a broken heart, from feeling worthless to amplifying feelings of joy. This Meaningful Conversation is hosted by the Speakers Collective. Find out more about the Speakers Collective at https://www.speakerscollective.org/ You can find out more about Rachel and Pele via the following links; https://www.rachel-kelly.net/books

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You'll Never Walk Alone: Poems for life's ups and downs by Rachel Kelly https://www.amazon.co.uk/Youll-Never-Walk-Alone-Poems/dp/1529395348/