#137

Whether you’ve been reading this newsletter for 4 years or you’ve just signed up, you hopefully know that our vision with Sanctus has always been to put the world’s first mental health gym on the high street. 

This picture, this dream has always been our North Star.

It really paints a picture of the world we want to live in, one where mental health is valued by us all and rightfully earns it’s place on the high street. 

It also symbolises something vivid about connection and community. 

A sanctuary, a safe space on the high street where we can find some quiet in the noise, where we can connect to how we feel and where we can feel a sense of real belonging.

That vibrant, real dream has been our fuel for Sanctus since the start and it still is today. 

We don’t have a Sanctus mental health gym on the high street right now and in the last few years we decided it wasn’t the right time for us to go down that route and we’ve focused on partnering with employers to make Sanctus Coaching available to employees. 

The world does need mental health gyms on the high street though, I am sure of that, yet right now we can’t open one!

What we can do though, is to open up the mental health gym, online. 

We can virtually open our doors to all people to get involved and get working on their mental health, virtually for now. 

Access to mental health support is expensive, disjointed and confusing and it doesn’t have to be. 

You can work on your mental health and it can cost you absolutely nothing and it can be fun too. That’s what we want to make happen. 

We want mental health to feel as easy to get involved with as physical health and that’s what we are going to do. 

in the next few weeks we’ll be opening the doors to the mental health gym online and we’d love as many people as possible to get involved with us and really give working on your mental health a try, 

We’ve started already and we’ve begun by marrying the mental health and the physical.

• We’ve got online HIIT classes every Tuesday with GB 🏋🏾‍♀️

• We’ve got a 5k run, any time, any pace next Monday with me 🏃🏻‍♂️

• We’ve got free online connection groups that you can sign up to here 🗣📲

• We’ve got meditation classes coming 🧘🏼‍♀️ 

• We’ve got sleep stories coming 😴 

• We’ve got journaling classes coming ✍🏼

It’s happening, the mental health gym is opening and we’re going to get people talking, really talking about their mental health. 

Let’s make working on your mental health fun, accessible and rewarding.

I’m so glad to be writing to you again, I hope it continues. 

I hope to see some of you working on your mental health with us, everything is free for now until I figure out how this all works. 

See you at Sanctus ;-)

James x

p.s I've also been doing a daily Sanctus Radio show. Your daily dose of good vibes, connection and all things mental health :)