All Right? wellbeing campaign
All Right? He kaupapa hauora
All Right? is a campaign designed to help Cantabrians think about our mental health and wellbeing, and ways we can improve it.
We have all been through a lot in Canterbury and there are lots of things about the recovery that cause frustration and stress. All Right? seeks to let people know that it is normal to feel how they do and there are things they can do to boost their wellbeing.
All Right? messages are not rocket science – improving our wellbeing can be as simple as:
- a moment stargazing
- a trip to the park with the kids
- a coffee and catch-up with mates
- a little boogie round the kitchen.
This is not intended to trivialise the real pain that many people are experiencing. It is intended to remind people that we can and already do take care of ourselves and each other in very simple ways.
The All Right? campaign is a Healthy Christchurch project led by the Mental Health Foundation and Te Whatu Ora Waitaha. Along the way we have received support from many organisations. These include the Red Cross, Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA), the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Social Development and Strategies with Kids – Information for Parents (SKIP).
You can share your ideas on what makes you feel all right at www.allright.org.nz.
If you want to contact someone at All Right?, email hello@allright.org.nz.
Written by HealthInfo clinical advisers. Last reviewed November 2023.
Sources
The information in this section comes from the following sources, some of which may be clinically complex or not available to the general public
BMC Medicine – Mediterranean Dietary Pattern and Depression: The PREDIMED Randomized Trial, retrieved December 2019.
BMC Psychiatry – A Randomised, Controlled Trial of a Dietary Intervention for Adults with Major Depression (The SMILES Trial): Study Protocol, retrieved December 2019.
Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience – The Gut-Brain Axis: The Missing Link in Depression, retrieved December 2019.
Healthify He Puna Wairoa – Food and mood, retrieved December 2019.
Molecular Psychiatry – Healthy Dietary Indices and Risk of Depressive Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Observational Studies, retrieved December 2019.
Image and embedded video sources
Double continua image from the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand. January 2021.
Five ways to wellbeing image from the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand. January 2021.
How to manage your mood with feed video from Mind, the mental health charity on YouTube.
Image of healthy food from Shutterstock (image ID 540997561). January 2020.
Image of three women laughing on a beach from FreeDigitalPhotos. July 2015.
Image of two happy women from mychillybin (image ID 100093_3579). October 2018.
Te Whare Tapa Whā image from the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand. January 2021.
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