Join Plants & Mind on Monday 9th February for their next Growing Communities Networking at Cherry Tree Nursery – It’s FREE to attend and there will be CAKE!! But please do remember to register your places so that we make sure there is enough for everybody!

As we will be heading into Emotional Health Week, 19th to 23rd February, Lorraine from SWAD (Sex With A Difference – https://www.swaddorset.org/ ) will be talking about how Emotional Health is shaped – not only by how we think and cope, but by how we connect. Intimacy and sexuality play a meaningful role in helping people feel seen, soothed, and emotionally regulated—yet they are often left out of conversations about wellbeing.

“Depression and anxiety can profoundly affect how we experience connection—changing our desire for closeness, our comfort with touch, and our relationship with our own bodies.”

This talk explores how intimacy and sex can support emotional health by fostering connection, reducing loneliness, enhancing self-worth, and supporting nervous system regulation. It also acknowledges that emotional health is not dependent on sexual activity, and that experiences of desire, closeness, and touch naturally change with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and life circumstances.

Lorraine from SWAD’s down-to-earth approach towards a topic that’s often treated as taboo, will move you from dreading opening a “can of worms” to “embracing the squelch!”