When did you last sit in complete quietness outside, and focus on the natural world around you? No technology, no distractions, no scrolling headlines, beeping notifications, phones ringing, and no screen? When did you last step away from the media and current global events to...
If we have had a poor night’s sleep, we can struggle to concentrate at work, make mistakes, have poorer exam or test results, and our response times can be slower. Insomnia problems are medically proven to have a significant effect on our mental and physical health, and...
Every day we seem to have a new political headline around the ominous date of Brexit. The number of Cabinet Ministers and MPs who have resigned, changed party, or their long-held values is mind boggling. But it is also worrying because of the impact on...
"Life is the sum of all your choices." - Albert Camus When you are on a social media site or app, do you click to the suggested images and accounts to follow? Do you scroll through endless similar images, worded tweets, repeated regrams, retweets, and reblogs and wonder...
The term Self Care or Self Compassion has become a trend on social media and in self help media. What does the term Self-Compassion mean, and how does it benefit us professionally? In her excellent introduction to Self-Compassion, Dr Kristin Neff explains that having compassion is essentially being...
When the Daily and Sunday Telegraph journalist Bryony Gordon was invited to join a gathering at Kensington Palace in 2016, she never expected this would be the catalyst to inspire her to run her first marathon. But after asking The Duchess of Cambridge whether SHE...
As Matt Haig explains in his new book, this is a world of nerves. Everyone is connected on a global scale within a nanosecond, and yet we are daily battling the rise of loneliness and disconnection within our own communities and even families. Notes on a Nervous...
All of us need someone to listen to us occasionally. Whether it’s just to let off steam or it’s a genuine concern in our private or work life - as the saying goes ‘It’s good to talk’. As MIND reports on its website at least...
We know there are numerous mental and physical benefits of taking a daily walk and partaking in regular exercise such as running. New research from Chih-Hsiang Yang at Penn State University, published in the journal of Psychology of Sport and Exercise, has discovered being mindful of your...
The recent news of the suicide of Kate Spade a prominent Fashion designer and businesswoman, and in 2013 Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the cofounder of Diaspora, a ‘presumed’ Facebook rival sparks even more interest into Mental health issues especially concerning prominent leaders in business. Kate’s friends were amazed...