Blogs

Welcome to the fourth in our new series of short blogs to help you stay safe, sane and supported during the current crisis. A key resilience skill that we talk about in our resilience training programmes is mindfulness. Mindfulness has been successfully used by people...

Welcome to the third in our new series of short blogs to help you stay safe, sane and supported during the current crisis. With the move into full lockdown we face a host of new challenges:  being unable to see or help family members and friends, spending increased...

Welcome to the second in our new series of short blogs to help you stay safe, sane and supported during the current crisis. As we move rapidly into a new era in working practice, we thought it would be useful to consider some of the challenges of working remotely and...

We want to use our psychological knowledge to help as many people as we can during the current global health crisis. In this new series of short blogs we will be giving you some top tips to cope and carry on, as well as bringing you innovative ideas, links to...

What is the International Day of Happiness? It’s a day to be happy, of course! Easier said than done at a time when we are all faced with the personal, professional and community challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. This unique global situation has potential to...

Whether you are bored of hearing about it, anxiously checking for symptoms, worrying about relatives or obsessively following news accounts about it, the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic is affecting us all. In fact, the World Health Organisation has...

Have you noticed that the media seems to be awash with reports of work-induced mental health issues across a whole range of professions? Teachers, members of the Police Force, and doctors have all had their headline. As these reports of burnout, work-related anxiety...

Regardless of whether you celebrate Christmas, chances are you’ll be taking a break away from work over the festive period. This means you have a great opportunity to take stock and refocus on your own wellbeing. Over the course of the busy year, you may have lost...

According to the PDSA, forty-nine percent of UK adults own a pet. That’s almost half of us! If you are one of the forty-nine percent you will already have an idea why the company of an animal can be such a pleasure. You’ll know that sometimes nothing beats spending...

Purpose is a word we hear little of but it has an important role to play in keeping us mentally healthy, motivated and engaged. It's linked to our values and drives us forward to persevere when the going gets tough. And, also helps us to find ways of being flexible...