With the recent announcements by Simone Biles, Ben Stokes and others in the sporting world that they are taking time out to look after their mental health, we all feel a bit more empowered to think about whether our lives really support us maintaining good mental health. Our wellbeing is affected by so many aspects …
Working part-time in a front-line job recently has allowed me to reflect on the dynamics of previously senior people working alongside ‘unskilled’ workers and others just entering the workforce. With so much flux and uncertainty in the economy this has become a growing reality for people from sectors affected by the coronavirus pandemic, as well …
Why are so many of us so anxious? At first sight it seems a rhetorical question, after all we are living in seemingly one of the most turbulent times in modern history: In the UK Brexit created the type of knife-edge mentality that tore friends and family members apart. For many people this ignited a …
The pressure to go ‘all-in’ to conform is fuelling anxiety Read More »
We’ve never known anything like it and we were totally blindsided: Covid19 has defined 2020 in truly historic ways. We are now starting to emerge, blinking into the sunlight of a roadmap to normality: furloughing will end after October. With this defined date in play we can surmise that soonish (perhaps late summer) many more …