If you’re a communicator or marketer, you have most likely written about mental health and its importance. You may have shared mental health resources, run internal or external surveys to assess the mental health of your stakeholders, run self-care campaigns, or have written articles on “How to take care of your mental health during lockdown”. The constant worry to ensure that mental health is communicated properly can be exhausting, and the irony is not lost on me that those who are writing about how vital mental health is may also be struggling with their own.

We don’t need reminding of how emotionally challenging this year has been. For everyone, in employment or not, many changes had to be made to ensure the safety and health of ourselves and those around us. Lockdown brought the loss of the work life/home life barrier. With this, conversations of burnout and mental health picked up pace. Advice on how to manage you