Footballers’ Mental Health: Stories of Strength, Struggle, and Recovery
When discussing Footballers’ Mental Health, we often imagine strong athletes who seem unaffected by pressure. However, behind every football match, there are real human stories that include anxiety, grief, stress, and emotional struggle. When we watch a football match, what we often see are victories, spectacular goals, and celebrations on the pitch. Players appear strong, […]
What Does It Mean to Be a Strong Man? Reflections for Men’s Mental Health Month
Men’s mental health is deeply influenced by society’s expectations of masculinity and strength. Many boys grow up hearing messages such as: “A strong man is someone who carries everything on his own.” For generations, men have been taught to be resilient, self-reliant, and emotionally controlled. They are often encouraged not to cry, not to complain, […]
GROW Batch #1: Celebrate Your Journey and Honor Growth
Over the past six weeks, participants of GROW Batch #1 have embarked on a journey that was not always easy. Together, they explored grief, reflected on personal experiences, and created space for emotions that are often difficult to express. Through creative activities, guided reflections, movement, and shared conversations, participants were invited to approach their experiences […]
Recap of the Zine Workshop: Holding Memories, Holding Grief Together
The Zine Workshop hosted by Talk Mental Health Indonesia on Friday evening, May 15th, invited ten participants to bring three photographs that held special meaning in their lives. Not just ordinary photographs, but fragments of memory that carried emotions, stories, and pieces of people they once were. One photo represented someone or something they had […]
GROW Session 5 Recap: Finding My Compass Through Reflection
In GROW Session 5, there was no new material introduced. No additional theories, no pressure to “fix” anything within ourselves. Instead, we simply sat together with everything that had already been carried throughout the journey and slowly began asking: Out of all of this, what actually matters most to you? Session 5 became one of […]
GROW Session 4: Rooting Back to Nature at Kebon Tamantirto
GROW Session 4 invited participants to step outside their usual space in Nitiprayan and reconnect with nature, reflection, and community at Kebon Tamantirto. In this fourth gathering of GROW Batch 1, participants explored healing through nature-based reflection, River Cards, storytelling, and collective care in a warm and grounding environment. This session became a journey of […]
GROW Session 3: When the Body Also Holds the Story
GROW Session 3 invited participants to slowly reconnect with the body and recognize that grief, stress, and emotional experiences are not only carried in the mind, but often held within the body as well. Sometimes, loss, overwhelm, or unresolved experiences stay with us through tension in the shoulders, tightness in the chest, exhaustion, numbness, restlessness, […]
Relationship Check-Up: Is Your Relationship Still Healthy or Becoming Toxic?
Relationship Check-Up is important because relationships are a big part of our mental health, especially during university years. This is often the phase where many people begin forming long-term patterns in communication, boundaries, conflict, and trust. At the same time, university life can also be emotionally complex. Many young adults are navigating academic pressure, identity […]
GROW Session 2 Recap: Why Releasing Emotions Can Feel Awkward
In GROW Session 2, we explored the theme of releasing emotions without shame—an experience that may sound simple, but can feel confusing, awkward, or even heavy in practice. At first, “emotional release” may sound like something that should feel relieving, freeing, or natural. But in reality, many of us do not experience it that way […]
When a Daycare Becomes a Place of Harm
A daycare child should always be surrounded by safety, care, and protection. Yet in some cases, a place that is meant to provide safety can instead become, for many children, a space associated with fear and distress. What happened in a daycare setting reminds us that harm does not always occur in places we expect. […]