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VLOG: The First Step To Recovery Is To Let People In

For World Mental Health Day and as part of our Men’s Wellbeing Matters campaign, MFT Supporter Sefik created a video blog (vlog) for us. He shares how your mental health recovery journey always starts by opening up, letting people in to how you’re feeling and having the courage to ask for help. He also encourages all of us to start conversations with loved ones who are showing signs that they might be struggling.

Sefik is an empowerment coach with lived experience of mental health issues. He is the survivor of two suicide attempts and has suffered depression and anxiety, he is also a mental health speaker and author. You can read up about his journey on the blog he wrote for us for World Suicide Prevention Day. He was also a guest on our September 2021 radio show, The Wellbeing Hour, where he shared his story of hope.

Want to blog for us?

We’re always keen to share mental health stories or give a platform to anyone wanting to share thoughts and educate others about mental health or wellbeing. If you’d like to write a blog or create a video blog for us, you don’t have to be an expert at it, we can coach you through it! Just get in touch at connie@maryfrancestrust.org.uk

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Megan

Delivery and Strategy Lead: Co-Production and Community Engagement (Leatherhead)

Portrait of Megan, Co-Production Lead, MFT

Megan joined MFT in January 2025 and looks after the development of our strategic priority for MFT to live and breathe co-production. She also facilitates our Advisory Group, and champions those with lived experience of mental health challenges to improve the way mental health support is developed, reviewed, and delivered.

Megan first learnt about co-production as a Lived Experience Advisor with the Independent Mental Health Network based at Surrey Coalition of Disabled People, contributing her own lived experience to mental health projects in Surrey and North East Hampshire after graduating university.

She has since worked on a range of development projects for Surrey’s mental health and wellbeing support, immersing community engagement and lived experience into research and decision-making. Additionally, she is an alumna for The King’s Fund after completing their Advanced Organisational Development Practitioner programme.

To maintain her wellbeing, Megan is an avid reader, journals, and practices Yoga.