Taking Steps on Your Wellbeing Journey
Mental Health Month is a chance to promote activities and ideas that can have a positive impact on our daily lives and the lives of others. These events and messages are tied together with a specific theme, and this year’s is
“Taking Steps on Your Wellbeing Journey”.
Mental Health Month 2025
What’s Your Journey?
Building on last year’s Mental Health Month theme, “Let’s Talk About It,” which emphasised the importance of open dialogue, this year we are shifting our focus to building strength and encouraging individuals to take actionable steps to support their wellbeing.After gathering feedback from various discussions, it became clear that there was a strong desire to explore how individuals can strengthen their wellbeing through coping strategies.
This led to the theme for this year: “Taking Steps on Your Wellbeing Journey.”
Our goal is to support individuals in identifying the steps they can take to improve their mental health and wellbeing, while recognising that progress isn’t always straightforward. The journey may include side steps or steps back, and that’s okay.
This year’s theme encourages help-seeking behaviours and fosters a supportive environment where people feel empowered to ask for help when needed, with awareness that setbacks are a natural part of the process and can lead to greater compassion and strength.
Incorporating research into this theme, we’ve integrated the 5 Ways of Wellbeing, which are evidence-based actions to improve mental health, alongside a framework called Mauri. This framework has helped shape the recommended steps and actions, ensuring that they are both practical and effective in building strength and promoting overall wellbeing.
Mental Health Month 2025 Ambassadors
Meet our 2025 Mental Health Month Ambassadors who share their personal stories and experiences.
Julie Goodwin
‘Looking after your mental health isn’t a one-and-done deal — it’s a journey.’
Mental Health Month Ambassador Julie Goodwin knows this firsthand. After experiencing a difficult period with her mental health, Julie learnt the hard way how vital it is to listen to yourself and the signs your body and mind are telling you.
In her story, she shares why it’s so important to notice the early signs of stress, recognise when you’re not coping, and remember that taking that very first step towards help can be the most important one.
Kennedy Cherrington
Meet our Mental Health Month Ambassador Kennedy Cherrington, NRLW Athlete for the Parramatta Eels
Listen to Kennedy share why it’s so important to focus on yourself before you can help others, and her tips on setting yourself a wellbeing routine you can actually stick to.
Matty Mills
‘World is hard enough — we have to be kind to ourselves.’
We couldn’t agree more with Matty Mills, TV presenter, actor and host, and one of our Mental Health Month Ambassadors this year.
Matty left home at just 14 and grew up feeling isolated as the only First Nations kid at his boarding school. For years, he kept his feelings close to his chest. Now, those experiences have shaped his belief in the power of community — and how the people around us can transform our wellbeing.
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