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Last week the Walking With The Wounded team in Manchester were presented with ‘The High Sheriff Special Recognition Award’ for their outstanding contribution to the community during the Coronavirus pandemic

“Use your voice for kindness, your ears for compassion, your hands for charity, your mind for truth and your heart for love” -Buddha This is all very appropriate and true. But just to look at the kindness part for a minute.

Despite the disruption many of us are facing, WWTW are still here to support those who served. As part of our ongoing support, we've set up regular live Twitter Q+A sessions with our mental health therapists. This offers you the chance to ask any mental health question you might have.

When we feel at our most vulnerable, we tend to expect the worst as our fears bubble up, but when we are met with kindness and care from others, it has the capacity to restore our hope and overcome our fears and we all need it to survive.

“We couldn’t just switch the lights off” - This was the cornerstone of Walking With The Wounded CEO Ed Parker’s video update delivered to teams who would normally have been taking part in Grasmere, Cumbria, at the charity’s biggest in-person fundraising event of the year.

Kindness is a quality, or value, and is seen in our social behaviours towards others. To be kind is to act in a way that shows genuine thought for, and a feeling of compassion towards, another person.

Being kind to ourselves and others is now a common refrain. Sounds obvious doesn’t it? But for many of us, it is hard to do regularly, consistently and without dismissing our acts of kindness as something of little value.

In her latest video, hear from WWTW's Clinical Lead, Carolyn as she shares her thoughts about the benefits of being kind and the importance of kindness during the period of #lockdown.

Next week marks Mental Health Awareness Week and as part of this, we're hosting a mental health Twitter takeover on Monday May 18th.

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