AfroelleJuly 2020 Edition

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Mental Health Sharnade George is a celebrity wellness coach and founder of an online platform called Culture mindstv. Her goal is to encourage healthy conversations about mental health for ethnic minorities and offer support to those who need it.

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s a therapist and wellness coach, Sharnade supports individuals with mental health difficulties such as depression and anxiety. She uses positive psychology by encouraging her clients to use their inherent strengths to manage how they think, feel and act.

It varies. I work with clients with mild to moderate emotional and psychological difficulties. Many suffer from anxiety or low self-esteem. One thing most of my clients have in common is the lack of self-belief and self-worth, not feeling like they’re good enough and letting this affect their life.

This is very meaningful work, how I had one celebrity client who was you get into it? struggling with anxiety. Their worries were getting the better of them and I’ve always loved mental health and because they were in the public eye, psychology. I started when studying this was affecting their career. They would also feel anxious about their at university and in the working environment. Working in private health, job, work life, family life and this was having a noticeable impact schools and psychiatric hospitals grew my passion and helped me love on their daily functioning, mainly within their profession. They were this line of work even more. always feeling sick, nervous, not What are the common mental wanting to perform at gigs when they health issues people who come to saw the crowd, cancelling events, you suffer from? worldwide trips and many other amazing job opportunities. 23


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