Under the watchful eye of Snowdon
On World Mental Health Day, Monday October the 10th 2016, 6 Designs in Mind folk take on the wild swimming challenge. This challenge started off with the title ‘Wild Swimming’ and now, thanks to the wonderful people at Gone Swimming, we are taking the ‘Wild’ to another level. This film, DIP, is made in Shropshire and is about how swimming in wild water has a healing quality for mental health. We got in touch with Gabby, at Gone Swimming, featured in the film and she jumped at
Meet Amy
Before I came here I very rarely left the house. Everything I did was a challenge. Doctors appointments, going to the shops- someone always had to come with me. Part of my condition meant that my speech was affected, I was anxious and nervous and I couldn’t talk. The only person I could speak to was my son. It made life very difficult for me. My illness was putting pressure on the family as they were trying really hard to help me. Trying to make me do things, get me out of th
Being in water feels good
From my earliest memories, I have an awareness that being in water felt good. I don’t mean being in the bathtub, but rather in open water be it at the seaside, by a lake (or, in my case, more likely a loch) or a stream. My dad was an incorrigible swimmer, and on family trips and holidays to the seaside, his first action was to don his swimming trunks and leg it to the sea – no inching in to the waves for him, with the usually bracing water creeping upwards. No, dad would ta
