Community Spirit ezine June 2019

DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS
ACTUALLY A DAY DEDICATED TO
MEN?
a CBT therapist, Occupational Therapist and Mindfulness teacher, who has significant experience of working with people with
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variety of physical and mental health conditions. She is English speaking and lives in Valencia city. She has over 17 years
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of working within the NHS and more recently private practice.She works work with a range of treatment models –
experience
Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Compassion focused therapy and Mindfulness based interventions. Typical mental health
CBT,
she works with include, depression, generalised anxiety, panic disorder, social anxiety, body dysmorphic disorder, selfesteem
issues
issues, OCD, phobias, eating disorders and psychosis.
INTERNATIONAL MEN’S DAY…
I was rather surprised to find that whilst researching this blog, that International Men’s day is
celebrated annually on November 19th and has been since 1999. So why is so little press and social
media coverage given to our fabulous husbands, partners, boyfriends, friends, and children? We are
aware that every March there is a huge celebration of women but the amount of social media
comments referring to the existence of a day to celebrate men, highlights the lack of awareness. Every
year on International Women’s Day, comedian Richard Herring makes it his mission to educate on the
existence of International Men’s Day.
Celebrating men is a great way to take part in a global
conversation about men’s issues, masculinity, and manhood.
International Men’s Day is designed to promote positive role
models in society and develop wholesome individuals.
W H A T D O E S I T C E L E B R A T E ?
It aims to highlight some of the social issues that men and boys
face.
1. Unrealistic stereotypes and portrayals of men in the
media. Men are portrayed often as misogynistic, think
about sex, beer and football with few other redeeming
qualities. On the other hand, there is the financially
successful man, who goes to the gym, rich, handsome and
brilliant an almost impossible ideal. “Where are the
portrayals of the many men who are complex, kind,
communicative, nurturing? The men who are able to be
both warriors and poets as needed, able to love deeply and
for the long-term, with multi-dimensional abilities about a
whole host of things?” (The Good men project).
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