Usually, in our mid-week email, we discuss ways to strengthen your mental health by sharing our own mental wellbeing journey. However, like most of you, we have had a wake-up call this week. A realisation that we haven't been doing enough to help put an end to the injustice faced by Black people all over the world. Sam and I promise to do better.

For many of us, the current pandemic has got us thinking...

What's really important? What do I need to make more time for in the 'new normal'? Do I need to implement further change to be the happiest version of me? Should I take that risk?

Hi everyone Mental Health Awareness Week is in full swing and the focus this year has been on kindness. We hope you have been able to get to some of our bonus classes - who knew you could combine boxing with yoga inspired moves?!

We each have our own super powers. We have something inside of us that nobody can take away. We have the power to spend our time as we wish. The power to use our energy on positive thoughts, or waste it on negative ones. We can decide to work that little bit harder, or to take some of that energy back and recover a little. We are all our own superhero.

It's almost 3 years since Sam and I created SMASH London and began sending weekly emails to inspire ways to strengthen your mental health! Over the coming weeks we will be revisiting some of our favourites where you can read about our own mental health journey and what our top tips are to be strong, happy and healthy... in body and mind.

It's been 5 weeks of lockdown now, longer for some people, and although most of us may have found more time on our hands in one way or another, are we making time to listen to our thoughts?

We understand that lockdown is having an effect on all of us, in one way or another. Some are embracing the stillness that has been forced on us, some are missing the interaction with other humans - something that's so important to us as a species.

We get asked how we are feeling a lot of the time and our response is usually a courteous 'fine' or 'good', or maybe even a 'great' if you are especially happy, but when we are specifically asked "How's your mental health?" we have to dive a little deeper in to our feelings to give an honest, sincere answer.

Positive affirmations are an important part of SMASH London and it's a shame that people don't use them more often! We get it though, for so long we have used negative words in those busy minds of ours, that it often feels odd to say something so positive

Before we say anything else, we want to thank you for all the support that has been sent to us online this week. It's been overwhelming for all of us, but our community has come together and the strength is felt through Zoom and Instagram workouts, kind emails, messages and YouTube follows!