https://www.scmp.com/rss/501238/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com When 17-year-old student Gowri Kolal started giving talks to fellow high school students on depression and strategies for coping with stress, few came forward with questions. Later, though, several reached out to her through Instagram messages asking for advice. “I realised that people needed a medium that would allow them to learn about mental health and wellness without having to put themselves in the spotlight,” says Bangalore-based Kolal. She was always drawn towards psychology and once she... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/3025814/mental-health-zines-helping-stressed-depressed-students?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/3025814/mental-health-zines-helping-stressed-depressed-students?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 05 Sep 2019 12:00:08 +0000 On a balmy Sunday morning in Bangalore, in southern India, a score of women have gathered to play five-a-side soccer. The Sisters in Sweat community, which started as a one-off weekend event for fun in November 2017 with 17 women, now meets once a week and boasts 130 members. The average age of the women involved is 35. Only half of them played sport at school or in college, while a quarter have never played sports in their lives. Of the group, less than 20 per cent had played soccer before... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/3017807/former-tottenham-hotspur-player-uses-soccer-empower-women?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/3017807/former-tottenham-hotspur-player-uses-soccer-empower-women?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Jul 2019 06:30:08 +0000