‘The sessions were little short of miraculous.’ Photo: by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash

‘I was able to lay down a burden I’d been carrying for decades.’

Taking care: Mary Woodward on the Mental Health Fund

‘I was able to lay down a burden I’d been carrying for decades.’

by Mary Woodward 3rd November 2023

During lockdown, a very dear friend of mine experienced serious mental health difficulties. I knew about the Quaker Mental Health Fund’s short-term grants, which would pay for six free sessions with a therapist from The Retreat in York, and encouraged him to apply. He found the online sessions invaluable for helping him cope with his isolation during this difficult period.

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Wayfaring: A Guide To Guidance

"If you truly want to be led you must put yourself in a position that allows following" (PYM)

Though written within a Quaker and Christian context, this book can be used by anyone of any religious faith or secular inclination. The only requirement is a desire to follow, to be guided by, to align with the richness of the ineffable, which this book calls "the Way". This book seeks nothing less than to aid readers in aligning their lives with the same power and richness that animated the life of Jesus of Nazareth.

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