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What is Mental Health?
It’s Mental Health Awareness Week. You probably don’t need me to tell you that; you may well have seen posts on social media and even on television news programmes. Our mental health underpins how we think and feel about ourselves Read more…
Burnout – Human Beings or Human Doings?
It’s important to remember that burnout is a human condition. Other animals aren’t affected by it because they don’t experience the world in the way that we do. Our cognitive processes have a large part to play in burnout as Read more…
Mental Health First Aid – What, why and who?
Mental Health First Aid Okay you’ve decided that you want to have mental health first aiders in your workplace…what next? From a single Google search there are so many options available to employers so, how do you choose the best Read more…
Good Thing Bad Thing, Who Knows?
Let me tell you about a young therapy client I saw recently. They play academy football and, at ten years old, the fear of failure has started to make them anxious. They are terrified that they will let their team Read more…
What Can I Do to Help Me Sleep Better?
If you’re not sleeping well, it will likely have started to stress and frustrate you. The extra stress just sends you spinning further on a runaway wheel of anxiety. The more you focus on something the more it happens. I Read more…
Pain Management: The link between stress and physical pain
Those people who live with chronic pain will tell you that on top of the pain itself, they feel exhausted. Constant pain debilitates you to the point where you may have days, weeks, or even months, at a time when Read more…
