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Support Systems in Winter
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Support Systems in Winter

Emma explores the types of support individuals wish to receive during winter, including accessible information about local activities. Shehighlights the importance of reducing barriers to participation in community events.

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Being in tune with yourself, and on that note, what kind of support do you find helpful or wish you had to get through the winter healthily? I mean, this could include support from professionals, community, or peers, or circle of friends, etc. Yeah, I think it's important to note as well that I mean I don't have any kind of like long-term health conditions or I don't feel that I'm a point in my life where I'm very reliant on professionals I would, I wouldn't look to GPs or nurses or kind of like those sorts of like medical people as kind of influences on my day to day which I think is obviously very different for different people. But I think the support that I would want is kind of information about things that are going on constantly. I think I'd really like a timetable of dropping things that I could go to. So say, things that you don't have to book, things that you don't really have to worry about, but oh this is going on on a Tuesday and you could just drop in, pop along. Things that you can kind of go to. I think for me, I keep talking about this, but I think for me, it's very much getting yourself out of the house. I think that's the sort of thing that I struggle with and need that real intrinsic motivation to kind of get to. So I think if professionals and people in that capacity that are kind of organizing things, if they could make that as easy as possible and make that information really easily accessible, I think for me personally, that would be great. It's kind of removing that admin side of things. you know, all of the things that we might put off, like, oh, I can't be bothered to look things up, or, oh, I can't be bothered to get there. But if you know that there's something on your doorstep, you can pop along, you don't need to even ring anyone. Because I mean, I'm quite guilty of the fact that I'll put something off if I have to make a phone call. So I think if just making those sorts of things accessible and easy as possible, I think that's very much coming from a social prescribing hat as well. I know that whenever we organise activities and just removed as many barriers as possible, we got way more footfall and way more uptake. And I think I would be the exact same as that. I think I just want things that I know that are running on my doorstep that I could just pop along to. It gets me out the house. It gets me moving. So I think as well, we create these mountains with exercise. When we talk about exercise and being physically active, I think you think of like some sort of CrossFit or this really intense exercise and it just doesn't have to be like that. I think it's really important to frame it in your mind as something really fun and organic almost in winter. that removes that kind of internal struggle of like oh this is going to be really hard and I can't be bothered and as much as you can tell yourself oh you're going to feel great afterwards like I just don't think that that's enough sometimes so I think having those sorts of things really accessible really easy really fun that's the information that I would want shared with me by professionals during those months. Absolutely thank you very much and I know I've ask this question in relation to Autumn. Do you set yourselves any personal...

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