It said it was important to provide “accessible, uplifting support” during the winter months.<\/p>\n
In a recent study of Sport in Mind participants, 55% said that darker evenings negatively impact their mental health.<\/p>\n
While 67% reported shorter days reduced their motivation and ability to be physically active.<\/p>\n
Chief executive Neil Harris said: “Christmas can be a good amazing time for some people but for a lot of people it creates a lot of anxiety.<\/p>\n
“A lot of people feel quite lonely and quite isolated so it’s really important to reach out to people and connect with them.”<\/p>\n
The Soles of the Season campaign also encourages workplaces to support the charity by setting up a Christmas tree with trainer laces and tree tags for messages to be tied to the tree.<\/p>\n
It is also asking people to decorate their trainers with seasonal touches like tinsel, glitter and baubles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It said it was important to provide “accessible, uplifting support” during the winter months. In a recent study…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":["post-165975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}