{"id":548958,"date":"2026-03-20T12:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548958\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T12:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:21:08","slug":"staffordshire-mental-health-group-take-up-cold-water-swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548958\/","title":{"rendered":"Staffordshire mental health group take up cold water swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hughes said the sessions, which also include time in the saunas followed by coffee and cake at the caf\u00e9, have been attended by upwards of 20 men, despite water temperatures plunging to as low as 2C during January and February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the events had been received well, adding some members had even purchased cold-water plunge pools for their gardens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hughes founded Men Rebuilding Men in November after he sought help five years ago when he was struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 1,500 men joined the Facebook group within two weeks, with the first coffee and walk event taking place at Westport Lake in Stoke-on-Trent in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hughes, who went through counselling and got sober after he sought help, said the group was going really well, adding: &#8220;It&#8217;s going from strength to strength.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hughes said the sessions, which also include time in the saunas followed by coffee and cake at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-548958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}