Supporting your mental wellbeing whilst promoting the latest in rock and metal!
Mindfulness is a great tool to have as it helps people to cope with high levels of anxiety and stress. Mindfulness, as a mental health tool, was developed in 1979 by Jon Kabat-Zinn who created the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program. This program draws on Hindu and Buddhist ideas that have been practiced for years … Continue reading MENTAL HEALTH TOOLS: Mindfulness
You maybe aware that May is Mental Health Awareness Month and this is hugely important to us at Rock Out Stand Out. This edition of album of the month is honouring this. Some of our team members have chosen albums that either describe lyrically and/or musically what living with mental illness and/or aspects of it, … Continue reading ROCK OUT STAND OUT ALBUMS OF THE MONTH – MAY 2021
Most of you may know that May is Mental Health Awareness Month and this edition of the playlist honours this. There are songs that depict lyrically and/or musically what it's like living with a mental illness, songs that lift them us during troubled times and by artists who have lost their lives to mental illness. … Continue reading ROCK OUT STAND PLAYLIST – 29.05.2021
Warning: This article contains film spoilers. It tends to be a tradition of mine to change my mind about what I write about for Mental Health Awareness week at the last minute. Watching a video from YouTube Channel Cinema Therapy gave me inspiration for this piece. For those who don't know Cinema Therapy is a … Continue reading WORDS FROM THE TEAM: A Look Into Inside Out With Cinema Therapy and How The Film Helped Me
Last year Lotty, Martin and I were discussing a game that had come out. The game had won a BAFTA award and was generally pretty well received by mental health advocates. The designer Emily Mitchell showed you six different chapters each meant to represent some aspect of mental illness. I hated it. In the moment … Continue reading WORDS FROM THE TEAM: Fractured Minds and How We Show Mental Illness
Note from the author: The following article was written at the peak of my worst ever mental collapse. It had been building for many years, and the wave that I’d been riding came crashing down, taking me with it. Since writing this, I have truly accepted that it’s ok to not be ok, and that … Continue reading YOUR STORIES: My View – Looking Out From The Inside
SEPULTURA are dedicating this week's 'SepulQuarta’ session to mental health awareness, and will be welcoming the famous artist Derek Hess alongside America Paredes from Mental Health America for a chat. Derek Hess made his mark by creating an own unique style of work, making strong connections in the music world, whereas Mental Health America is the United States' leading community-based non-profit dedicated to addressing the needs of … Continue reading NEWS: SEPULTURA – To Host SepulQuarta Mental Health Special Today
Matt Mitchell & The Coldhearts released the powerful radio remix track ‘Unavailable’ in conjunction to help raise awareness of World Mental Health Day 2020 (Saturday 10th October). Originally featured on Matt Mitchell & The Coldhearts 2019 eponymous debut album, 'Unavailable' tells a story of someone who is trying to find themselves in a world of … Continue reading NEWS: MATT MITCHELL & THE COLDHEARTS – Releases Powerful New Video To Help Raise Awareness For World Mental Health Day
Most of you may know it's World Mental Health Awareness Day. During these times, it's more important than ever to speak about our mental health and be honest with how things are. Big or small, each struggle and fight is important. To honour this day, some of the Rock Out Stand Out team have placed … Continue reading ROCK OUT STAND OUT PLAYLIST: WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY 2020
For this article, Rock Out Stand Out's Jacob takes a look at depictions of mental health problems in rock and metal music. In particular, he looks at Devin Townsend song Why? and classic PINK FLOYD album The Wall. This Saturday the 10th is World Mental Health Day. So I thought it would be interesting to … Continue reading YOUR STORIES: WHY? & THE WALL – A Look At Two Depictions Of Living With Mental Health Problems In Music