Queen Máxima kicked off Blue Monday, considered the most depressing of the year, with a brisk walk. The Queen went out early on Monday with Mambo, as can be seen in a photo that the royal family has shared via Instagram.
“Exercise is good for your physical but also for your mental health, especially if you can do it outside,” the queen writes with a selfie in the woods. ‘Today, on Blue Monday, I’m going for a long walk. You too?’
Blue Monday always falls on the Monday of the last full week of January. The idea is that the weather is often still dark, the first day of the working week, for many people holidays are still far away and good intentions have often already failed.
In June, the Queen said she wants to make an extra effort for projects dealing with mental health over the next ten years. In honor of Máxima’s fiftieth birthday, the Oranje Fonds, of which Máxima and King Willem-Alexander are the patrons, has started a collaboration with MIND. In the joint recovery program, eighty self-management and recovery initiatives will receive support for three years, so that everyone who needs it can receive help close to home to participate in society again.
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