'A delivery van arrived with a large buzzing box with the cautionary label: 'Live Bees'. Inside was the nucleus — the start — of my colony: 1,000 Buckfast bees.'
Since then, James has maintained his beehives, and has even planted a wildflower meadow close to the hives with flowers the bees love. All in all, it's had a powerful effect on his mental health. 'I see it as an active form of meditation, a chance to escape from mental tumult. When I’m with my bees it’s as if someone’s pressed the mute button on everything that’s worrying me,' Kate's brother explains in his essay.
James goes on to explain that the calmer he is, the calmer the bees are - which is an important means of keeping his mental health in check. 'When you’re suited up and immersed in the task, the cares of the world recede completely,' he writes.But bees aren't the only animal he uses to balance his mental health; his dogs have also played a major role in helping him through some of his darkest times.
And Kate, Pippa and their parents have also done all they can to support James through his mental health problems. 'I think the way the therapy helped me was that I didn’t need my family to say,"What can we do?" The only thing they could do was just come to some of the therapy sessions to start to understand,' he revealed in an interview with theThis content is imported from Instagram.
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