Mental Health Awareness Week, hosted by the Mental Health Foundation, this year is 10-16th May. Its aim is to get people to start talking about mental health and issues encountered in our daily lives which can impact on us. This year the theme is connecting with nature. Studies have proven that connecting with [...]
We deliver a half-day Awareness course, a one-day Understanding of Mental Health in the Workplace, and a two-day L3 Mental Health First Aid in the Workplace. There is more information available on the website. Throughout our courses, we suggest mindfulness as a means of self-help for many mental health issues. However, mindfulness is not [...]
Last month we looked at stress and anxiety. The difference between them, causes, effects and help available. This month we are going to briefly look at depression. If you want to know more, please book one of our Mental Health courses. We deliver a half-day Awareness course, a one-day Understanding Mental Health in the [...]
Worry, why do I let myself worry? So asked Patsy Kline in 1961. Patsy’s plight was that of love and heartbreak but we all worry over life’s anomalies whether it be job security, relationships, children, targets, deadlines or countless other daily trials and tribulations. Most of us overcome these worries and either solve the [...]
SATURDAY 10th OCTOBER 2020 Has there ever been a more relevant time to promote the understanding of mental health? The coronavirus pandemic has had an impact on everyone no matter age, culture, socio-economic status or gender. We have all had to adapt our way of life in some way or another. None more so [...]
“Unprecedented times” and “the new normal” two phrases which have become cliched but understood by all. Whether we have been furloughed, working from home or self-isolating all our daily routines have changed. For some, this is a welcomed change, for others it is both confusing and anxiety-inducing. Many have had time to reflect on [...]
Working from home used to mean having a day to catch up in the garden or get that back bedroom decorated! For some though it was what it said on the tin and time to complete projects or work without interruption from work colleagues. Oh, how wistful for those interruptions have some of us [...]
The new normal in teaching? We have all had to make changes recently, most enforced and some to enable some form of normality in business. As a business that relies on face to face contact with our clients, we have had to adapt and look at new ways of giving them some means of [...]
