{"id":744282,"date":"2026-07-05T08:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T08:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/744282\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T08:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T08:37:08","slug":"how-northamptonshire-car-meets-help-men-discuss-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/744282\/","title":{"rendered":"How Northamptonshire car meets help men discuss mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A motor enthusiast said he has been organising car meets to encourage other men to talk &#8220;openly and honestly&#8221; about their mental health and challenge any stigma. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lewis Warren, 33, from Brixworth, Northamptonshire, hosts the events around the UK on the second Sunday of each month, including at Gasoline Juice in Weedon Bec. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Regular attendee Craig Abbott, from Duston, Northampton, said the car meets have had a &#8220;positive effect&#8221; on him and helped him feel &#8220;listened to as a person&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think blokes have a difficult time talking openly and honestly because we kind of put these barriers around ourselves,&#8221; Warren said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Asking somebody how they really feel quite upfront, almost puts those protective shields up almost immediately. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Whereas going into it softly by talking about something you&#8217;re both interested in gets the conversation started,&#8221; he added.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warren said up to 30 to 100 cars attend the Coffee and Cars meet-ups. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motor enthusiast said he has been organising car meets to encourage other men to talk &#8220;openly and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":["post-744282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}