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Janine Ward

Janine Ward

CEO and Mental Health Practitioner at Together We CIC, a mental health and wellbeing charity in West Cumbria founded in 2017.

Jun 19, 2026

9:24
What was that for you?
9:26
So one in particular where I'd kind of hit rock bottom, it's when I moved away.
9:31
So I moved away for a long time down to Southampton really and my other half at the time.
9:36
um left me for somebody much older than me um and basically left me financially unable to look after the house and everything like that right so I was in a really bad place um and feeling really poorly with my mental health and I'm a psychological therapist right so that's pretty hard work being mentally unwell when you're in that kind of profession don't get me wrong I've been unwell quite a few times in my life but I think that was the point where I started to notice that actually maybe this wasn't just a like a low mood that actually maybe it was something more than a low mood and actually possibly a mental health, like a severe mental health problem.
10:16
And I think the biggest moment was, and it's quite a sad thing to kind of speak about really, But I'd got to the point where things were just really, really bad.
10:25
And I decided that that was it and the life was going to come to an end.
10:31
And I'd planned it quite significantly.

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40:26
What would together we be doing this week, for instance, in terms of your focus?

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