FORTH is an in depth resource to bring reality back to the wellness industry and simplify sustainable access to skills and expertise. We wanted to create a practical alternative to a wellbeing magazine that specifically created activities to progress every individual’s recovery or better their current mental health.
Every person should have the ability to seek and receive subsequent therapy skills, professional expertise and multidisciplinary access, but in the world we live in - this is not always possible for the majority of people.
FORTH is for people wanting to improve their mental health created by people that care and understand. Each quarterly edition features articles of multitude of perspectives, professional & inspirational, as they share relevant skills and knowledge surrounding progressing topics. Readers have the opportunity to work and discover at their own pace as well as consider new styles of therapy or services/products available that consider all aspects of life.
Every person deserves to feel well, to feel joy and to live a life where mental health is well managed. We hope that what we have created provides some momentum to find recovery and move continuously forth to your future.
the purpose;
our founder;
I’m Ella and I’m twenty-one from Perth, Western Australia. I am the grateful founder & editor of FORTH and I have the privilege of bringing to you a resource inspired directly by my own experiences & story.
Mental health is, and has always been, a huge part of who I am. I have always felt connected deeply to my thoughts and emotions, struggling from anxiety as long as i can remember and always striving to improve my mental wellness & keep a sense of balance.
After a traumatic experience in 2019, the stability i had upheld seemed to unravel & I spent majority of the following three years within inpatient care. I battled tirelessly with the demands of post-traumatic disorder and depression, continuously striving to recover and get back to having a quality of life. As the hospital stays grew more frequent and longer, my world became narrowly refined to hopelessness and despair.
The cycle of crisis and hospitalisation was exhausting not only for me but the people around me as we pushed every single day to keep me in this world. There was so many times that the mental health care system failed me and if i didn’t have the people around me, this system would have lost me completely. This confronted me constantly of the dire reality of my fight even in the most privileged of circumstance. I developed an intense fire of frustration and anger over the gaps i was facing, nothing ever changing even though i was working so hard and doing “all the right things”.
I craved a resource that built sustainability in my transition from the hospital setting, an affordable way of trying a variety therapies and approaches, something that was realistic amongst wellness trends and considered a multidisciplinary approach to suit more genuinely to my life as a whole.
FORTH is an image of my passion and soul, it reminds me of what it means to be human, and how lucky i am to be here, unlike many. FORTH is my responsibility as a survivor to make an impact, and i really hope that this will mean something to just one person.
I give you - FORTH, a ripple of my story, ongoing, to hopefully encourage a sense of peace or hope in yours.
photography;
FORTH Magazine is proudly captured by the phenomenal Perth based photographer - Stephanie Jayne Photos. Steph’s passion lies in her love for curious observation in all the world has to offer. Her dedication to detail and wonder crafts beauty in every page she graces and her work paints the stories of FORTH’s essence.
