🔹Mental Health & Well-being Weekly

Letting Go

This guide, How to Let Go and Why It Is Important, explores the emotional and psychological benefits of releasing unhelpful attachments, offering practical strategies to foster peace, resilience, and overall well-being.

Letting go is important because it directly supports our mental and emotional well-being. When we cling to past experiences, painful emotions, or unrealistic expectations, we carry a burden that can weigh us down, creating stress, anxiety, and even burnout. These attachments — whether to resentment, guilt, or a desire for control — often limit our ability to move forward, keeping us stuck in cycles of rumination or frustration. Letting go isn’t about forgetting or dismissing what has happened; it’s about choosing peace over pressure, and growth over stagnation.

By learning to release what no longer serves us, we create space for clarity, calm, and self-compassion. Letting go allows us to focus more fully on the present, respond to life’s changes with greater flexibility, and relate to others with empathy rather than conflict. It helps us accept what we cannot control and shift our energy toward what we can — our actions, our mindset, and our responses. In doing so, we free ourselves from emotional strain and open the door to greater resilience and well-being.

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Weekly Affirmation

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Events

 

Well-being Week: Book your places

Running from Monday 30 June to Friday 4 July

Book Here

 

Come Along to a Free Fun-Filled Family Event

⏰ Saturday 14 June 10am to 2pm 📍 La Moye School

💡You can enjoy exciting sports and games, arts and crafts, practise first aid and hear advice from experts on wellbeing and emotional regulation. It’s an opportunity to try something new, connect with charities, community organisations and government services all in one place with free parking.

🚗Parking is available at Les Creux near the old bowls club, with blue badge spaces by the school and nursery.

For more information and to view the full list of participating agencies, please visit 🔗gov.je/CloserToHome
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