Guest Blogs ✍🏻

Park Lane Stables: A Very Personal Story of How Horses Have Helped Naomi’s Struggles With Mental Health. In this piece, I shared candidly my experiences with poor mental health over the years and the various struggles that come with being autistic, and how horses have been a constant source of happiness (and a lifelong special interest) for me. I’m a strong advocate for equine therapy and volunteered for Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) back in 2018. I remain an ambassador for the charity and continue to champion the great work they do, and ride with the team in Richmond weekly.

Spark Support - Dealing with Overload. In this article written in the early days of lockdown in 2020, I touched on the different ways that covid could impact our mental health and talked about issues such as loneliness and anxiety, and shared a few handy coping mechanisms that helped her get through isolation. I went on to volunteer for Spark Support as Social Media Executive for nearly twelve months and ran the social media element of the charity.