{"id":219824,"date":"2026-01-06T15:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/219824\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:40:08","slug":"group-for-men-to-talk-about-mental-health-starts-in-peterborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/219824\/","title":{"rendered":"Group for men to talk about mental health starts in Peterborough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Johannes, who runs the private Inspired To Change mental health service across Peterborough, said he regularly saw men who were not at crisis point, but were feeling burdened, isolated or overwhelmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A lot of men feel that if they open up about their big problems, it might make them look more vulnerable. They feel they will be judged,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s no therapy here [club] or judgement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not about fixing anyone or getting better. It&#8217;s about connection. You can have a tea or coffee, chat if you want, or just sit and observe. That&#8217;s enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re not broken, but they&#8217;re carrying a lot. We want to offer support before things reach crisis level.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johannes, who runs the private Inspired To Change mental health service across Peterborough, said he regularly saw men&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-219824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}