Positive messages have been placed on billboards around the city to help people through 'Blue Monday'.
On this Blue Monday (January 16), the ‘Feel Good Club’ in partnership with Jack Arts, is sharing positive messages on billboards in Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield and Birmingham, giving you the chance to send a loved one a free motivational message. These messages will remain live for two weeks.
Blue Monday has been said to be the ‘most depressing day of the year’ by experts. With the combination of dark winter nights, cold weather and the end of Christmas festivities, January can often feel pretty bleak with the third Monday in January commonly known as Blue Monday or one of the most depressing days of the year.
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The strong and uplifting messages will let people know they are not alone in this gloomiest of seasons, and each poster has a QR code directing to the Feel Good Club website where those scanning can send a free postcard to a friend or loved one with the same message, with the aim to spread to cheer across the UK.
Loud Speaker, an organisation that provides confidence boosting workshops to young people in Liverpool and throughout the UK, has provided some free tips on fighting the Blue Monday blues that can help everyone change their mindset.
Loud Speaker empowers young people - predominantly aged 14-19 - to speak up and speak their best. Their top tips for attacking Blue Monday with a positive and confident attitude are:
1. The key to resilience isn’t seeking out a company like us at Loud Speaker to make yourself more resilient; it is coming to the realisation that you are already resilient and figuring out/reflecting on where your personal resilience comes from.
2. Without knowing you, we know that you have endured difficulty. But by definition of you now sitting here reading these words - you are resilient. You are trying to win!
3. You need to figure out what brought you to the party… Who/what has helped you bounce back from adversity in the past. At Loud Speaker, we believe that the tools we use to bounce back largely fall into a few key areas.
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