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Encanto & Mental Health

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So I was very late to the Encanto party and only watched it last weekend (April 2nd) with my 6 year old son. Fortunately for me, he has ensured we have made up for lost time by watching it every day since then (three days on the trot!), with the soundtrack on repeat on every car journey, on Alexa in the house & even played on phones at bathtime. There is no escape from not talking about Bruno it seems. Whilst watching the film & enjoying the soundtrack, it made me think of the recent training I completed as a mental health first aider . So I thought I'd write about mental health, the thing people don't talk about in the same way ' we don't talk about Bruno' as the film's title hit espouses, and how Encanto's characters reflect us & people we know who might be struggling. It turns out I wasn't the first one to think of this as a quick google search shows . Even if you haven't seen the film, you can see in the picture below that on the sur