With the new year comes the barrage of self-help gurus and ideas. One that caught my eye was manifesting. Apparently, google searches for this were up 700% over the last year, with many well viewed Youtube videos and several books. What is...
I recently started working with several clients who were bothered by work stress - one of them signed off work for 2 weeks. All hold significant roles and are finding delivering against expectations ‘too much’. ...
Is there a post pandemic Freedom Day? Will it ever be pre-March 2019 ‘normal’ again? The answer seems to be no. Some aspects of our lives are returning…and along with this the pressure to ‘do’ and get back to the way it was before. But is...
It’s Mental Health Awareness week from 10-16 May. Mark Rowland the Chief Executive of the Mental Health Foundation, the hosts of Mental Health Awareness week, said the Foundation chose nature as the 2021 theme because, ‘During long months of the pandemic, millions of us turned to...
These last months – and perhaps for several more to come – we have lived with restrictions and changes to our lives we didn’t anticipate and, in most cases, didn’t want. We have been thrown into a state of uncertainty pervading our lives bombarded with...
The beginning of this story started late summer, 2020, a request came in from a client asking for support for their Senior Leadership Team with a series of short learning bites, entitled ‘Time To…..’ . These sessions were to be no more than hour encompassing...
Fortitude. An old-fashioned word we don’t use much anymore, but perhaps one whose time has come again? Fortitude. It means courage and determination through pain or adversity and speaks of having to ‘grin and bear it’, to be with discomfort –...
Gratitude is the quality of being thankful, being ready to show appreciation for and to return kindness. The definition speaks of ‘getting outside’ oneself and challenging us to recognise goodness, simple joys and others....
As we experience these extraordinary times and live in this period of uncertainty, constant change and discomfort, it is more important than ever to dig deep into our resilience reserves, to be connected, adaptive and emotionally agile....
The costs of poor wellbeing in the workplace are colossal. If we isolate mental wellbeing, we find the total annual cost of mental ill health to UK employers was £26bn – £1035 per employee – in 2007....