• 7 Steps to Release and Handle Anxiety with Sherianna Boyle

    #18. Sherianna Boyle shares with me how her experiences have emphasised the importance of understanding, and handling anxiety. She has written 7 books including one on mastering anxiety for young people...

  • Easy and Affordable Ways to Make Self-Care Part of Your Everyday Life

    Today we have a guest blog from John Foster who has done an excellent job of writing about the value of self care...

  • What is your relationship with food?

  • It’s 2019, so why is mental health still a workplace taboo?

    The economic cost of poor mental health in the workplace is between £33bn-£42bn each year...

  • Imposter Syndrome – what it is and how to overcome it!

    Impostor syndrome is a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their accomplishments...

  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

    PTSD is a serious illness. It’s characterized by symptoms of avoidance and nervous system arousal...

  • Time to Talk About Education and Mental Health

    Mental health at school and university is less talked about but as important as mental health anywhere else...

  • Maternal Mental Health

    Good mental health is hard to establish and maintain today without children, let alone throwing a newborn baby into the mix...

  • Stop Thinking, Start Living: Book review

    My associate Georgina, has written a critique of the book covering the main points and what she recommends we put in to practice...

  • Do you think too much?

    The essence of the book is that Richard believes those of us prone to thinking a lot may be at risk of encouraging mild to moderate depression...

  • Handling Negative Emotions is a Life Skill

    Feelings of sadness, frustration, anger, and disappointment all serve a purpose, but often their purpose is lost...

  • Self-worth and why it’s still worth it!

    Self-worth is an attitude towards yourself; a belief that you place a value on what you do, and who you are. It matters because without it, or if it’s low...

  • Learning from Failure

    People always say, “the best way to learn is through the mistakes that you make.”  But what if we don’t learn from our mistakes, our misdemeanours, our failures? 

  • Men have Eating Disorders Too!

    Men are now reported by the NHS to represent 25% of cases of eating disorders...

  • Men and Mental Health; are men more emotional than women?

    Many boys encounter what Dr William Pollack termed in his book, ‘The Boy Code’, a set of expectations on how boys and men should think, feel and act: “be tough, don’t cry, go it alone...

  • Building Resilience For Adults

    Following on from the last blog I wanted to concentrate on how to build resilience for adults...

  • How to Use Self Talk to Improve Your Life

    Have you ever noticed the kind of language you use in your day-to-day life? Do the following statements...

  • Your Gut & Mental Health

    Approximately 500 species of bacteria, as well as many species of yeast and other organisms, live in the human gastrointestinal tract and...

  • What’s Eating You?

    At some point in all of our lives we turn to a solution we hope will make us feel better; to cope with or to distract us temporarily from our problems...

  • Family: how to work out when to forgive and when to let something go

    Some of us are lucky enough to have supportive, loving families that help us, either to come home to, or to feel we’ve come from...

  • Monday blues or just plain SAD?

    Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) – also known as “winter depression” – affects around two million people in the UK...