How you going mate?

How you going mate? A mental health initiative that focuses on how we support people to manage their mental health. We call this Active Support for Mental Health.

When you recognise that someone needs support then offer and give it without waiting to be asked for it. We started How You Going Mate? in June of 2017 when I lost a friend of mine, Steve, to su***de. How you going mate? is built around the idea that good social connection and support is crucial to managing our mental health but at the times when we need that support, we don’t ask for it. In fact when our mental health is poor or we are feeling overwhelmed and unable to manage, we hide, we disconnect, we socially isolate or we do everything we can to make it look like everything's alright. But we won’t ask for support. So we need people to see this and offer us support to manage our mental health without waiting for us to ask for it or expecting us to ask for it. Something we call Active support for Mental Health. Active Support for mental health is about recognising when someone needs support, seeing an opportunity to give real, substantial and practical support to that person and giving that support without encouraging them to ask for it, waiting for them to ask for it or expecting them to ask for it first. Active Support is taking action to support someone to manage their mental health.

06/11/2025

I recently completed a course in Resilience First Aid with hellodriven.comI highly recommend it. I enjoyed it so much th...
24/08/2025

I recently completed a course in Resilience First Aid with hellodriven.com

I highly recommend it. I enjoyed it so much that I am now doing the training that will allow me to become a resilience coach and do resilience training. Watch this space.

In this episode I talk to April Abbott. April's story is one of mental health, addiction, recovery and moving through ha...
24/08/2025

In this episode I talk to April Abbott. April's story is one of mental health, addiction, recovery and moving through hard times. This really is one of the most incredible stories we have ever told.
Remember you can listen by tapping or clicking on this post or on your favourite podcasting platforms.

Listen to April's Story from How you going mate?. In this episode I talk to April Abbott. April's story is one of mental health, addiction, recovery and moving through hard times. This really is one of the most incredible stories we have ever told.

In this episode I talk with my old friend Kara Thornhill. Kara is a passionate mental health advocate who recently start...
05/07/2025

In this episode I talk with my old friend Kara Thornhill. Kara is a passionate mental health advocate who recently started her own Mental Health support service called Maverick Supports. We chat about a whole range of things including living with her own mental health conditions, recently being diagnosed with ADHD and losing friends because of our mental health. We also talk about why she started Maverick Supports an just how she hopes to change the game when supporting good mental health.

As always you can listen by clicking or tapping on the link in the post or via your favourite podcasting service.

https://open.acast.com/public/streams/6306bcf93072ab00129a5c1d/episodes/6869b65ba5162e9423c27400.mp3

This is a good one!! Make sure you tune in on Sunday!
30/06/2025

This is a good one!! Make sure you tune in on Sunday!

🎙🔥 It’s official! 🔥🎙

Kara recently sat down with Holstein from How you going mate? for an incredibly open, honest, and raw podcast episode.

They covered it all:
➡ Kara’s personal mental health journey
➡ The power of lived experience
➡ Why she founded Supports
➡ And how we’re building better support models for psychosocial and compounding mental health.

👉 The episode drops on 6th July, & we can’t wait for you to hear it.

Mark your calendar. Set your reminders. 💛

Today is a sombre yet significant day on our calendar. On this day 8 years ago, I received a phone call telling me that ...
30/06/2025

Today is a sombre yet significant day on our calendar. On this day 8 years ago, I received a phone call telling me that one of my oldest friends had taken his life by su***de.
A few days after this, I started the How you going mate? initiative. We had one purpose, to encourage people to reconnect with people that they thought needed support.
The message is still the same. Don’t keep waiting for people to ask for help.
Don’t say things like “I’m here here if you need me” or “Call me if you need me.”
If you think somebody needs support, pick up the phone send a message or make a call and ask them How you going mate?
That phone call or message could be all it takes to save their life.

29/06/2025

Sometimes it’s easier to accept support than it is to ask for it. Next time someone asks you if you need support, take i...
25/06/2025

Sometimes it’s easier to accept support than it is to ask for it. Next time someone asks you if you need support, take it.

What do you do?
23/06/2025

What do you do?

22/06/2025

In this episode I have a great chat with Tracey Kelly. Tracey is a mother, animal lover, published author, certified jou...
22/06/2025

In this episode I have a great chat with Tracey Kelly. Tracey is a mother, animal lover, published author, certified journal therapy coach, and a qualified personal trainer who is passionate about family, food, fitness and wellbeing. Tracey talks to me about her own experiences managing her mental health after a serious episode a few years ago when a number of things overwhelmed her all at once and how that has inspired her books, Running Thoughts and When The Magic's Gone but also how it has inspired her to help others. You can follow her FB page here Tracey Kelly, Author !

As always you can listen by tapping or clicking on the link in this post or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

https://open.acast.com/public/streams/6306bcf93072ab00129a5c1d/episodes/6857c2f873d44a0f7e0fa286.mp3

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