Mental Health needs more sunlight, more candour and more unashamed conversation!! World Mental Health Day takes place on October 10th, with this year’s theme being “mental health in an unequal world“. 2020 has been a year like no other, and one hopefully not repeated! It has been a landmark year in terms of wellbeing. Most of …
It’s time to use your wonderful imagination for a moment…. imagine you’re with a close friend and they say “I really like you as my best friend, then pauses and says……but…” What happens in your mind, even before they say anything else? Ideally your very sensible, logical, and rational conscious mind is thinking… “I’ll wait …
Do you know our brain is constantly changing? As you gain a new skill you create new neurological pathways in the brain and once you have used that new pathway often enough it becomes a neurological superhighway! Athletes refer to this as muscle memory – they are essentially referring to the phenomenon where, after an …
Life is a matter of choice, and every choice you make makes you – John C Maxwell So while you’re pondering this, let me ask you a question….how flexible are you? And I don’t mean this in a gymnastic kind of way! In other words, if we only have one choice how to react to …
Men’s Health Week (14th – 21st June) raises awareness of the health issues that affect men disproportionately. It focuses on getting men to become more aware of health problems they may have or could develop and gain the courage to do something about it. Traditional ideas of masculinity mean that some people have set notions …
While the winter is often associated with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), a good bit of literature on SAD neglects to mention that SAD can occur in any season, including spring. The arrival of spring often heralds a new lease of life and energy for most people, but for those suffering from depression the effect can be drastically different. SAD is a type …
Do you want to be more successful? Of course, you do. I’m sure there will be some areas in your life that you’d like to improve. We ALL have them. Personally, I can think of several areas where I’d like to be more successful…….for instance, leaving the house in one swift move, remembering the bags …
It is time to create a more positive perception about what it means to be different, to think differently, to be neurodiverse. Neurodiversity is an idea that’s been around for a while. In brief, it means that brain differences are just that: differences. So conditions like ADHD and autism aren’t “abnormal”, instead they’re simply variations of …
So, can good come from situations that make us feel bad? Absolutely!
Emotions have no gender. This is a small sentence with such a huge impact. Just stop and think about this for a moment….. Emotions have NO gender! So, why do women and men often ask for help differently? And more importantly, stay silent and avoid asking? In this age of oversharing on social media, when …
