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The Self Esteem Team

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Nationality
  
British

Website
  
selfesteemteam.org

Years active
  
2013–present

Notable work
  
The Self-Esteem Team's Guide to Sex, Drugs and WTFs?!!


The Self-Esteem Team is an organisation which was formed in 2013, co-founded by Grace Barrett, Natasha Devon, and Nadia Mendoza. They deliver workshops in schools and colleges on mental health, body image and exam stress.

Contents

The Self-Esteem Team released their debut book The Self-Esteem Team's Guide to… Sex, Drugs & WTFs?!! in 2015, with a foreword by Zoella. The book is on The Reading Agency's Reading Well Books on Prescription scheme.

The group's Switch On The Light campaign, which was released for Mental Health Week 2015, featured Stephen Fry, Professor Green, Clarke Carlisle, and Charlie McConnell. It is dedicated to James Mabbett, who took his own life aged 24.

Follow-up campaign New Years ReVolution, released in December 2015, featured Charlotte Crosby, Rachel Riley, Jamal Edwards, and Michelle Lewin.

Members

Grace Barrett is a singer/songwriter who has toured the world with artists Brother, Little Boots, and Deaf Havana. She was raised in Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire. Grace had severe eczema as a child, and is now a nutrition expert on how the diet plays a role in mental and physical health.

Natasha Devon is a writer and TV pundit, who has a bi-monthly paper review slot on Sky News. In August 2015, she became the British government's first Mental Health Champion. In April 2016, the role was controversially rendered obsolete. She grew up in Ugley in Essex. After overcoming bulimia nervosa, Natasha co-founded charity Body Gossip in 2006. She later re-branded with Grace and Nadia to form The Self-Esteem Team.

Nadia Mendoza is the Digital Showbiz Editor at Daily Star Online. She began her career at The Sun. She was raised in London before moving to Los Angeles while working for Mail Online. Nadia fought a long battle with self-harm before joining The Self-Esteem Team.

Press Coverage

The Self-Esteem Team were first mentioned in the press in 2014, when The Sun on Sunday's Fabulous magazine featured them in an article about their work.

The group have also been covered in The Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, Daily Star, OK!, The Guardian, as well as Lorraine and The Wright Stuff.

Awards

In 2014, The Self-Esteem Team won a Body Confidence Award at the House of Commons for their services to education

Books

The Self-Esteem Team's Guide to Sex, Drugs and WTFs?!! (6 August 2015). John Blake Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1784186425.

References

The Self-Esteem Team Wikipedia