Welcome to my blog
There is a lot of information around on the importance of looking after our health, like maintaining a healthy diet and plenty of exercise. This is all well and good if your aim is just to keep your body healthy. But what about your brain?
From chocolate to coffee and sleep, to sharper smarter thinking, join me for an article or three as I share insights, tips and ideas on what it takes to keep your brain operating at full speed, so you can wake up feeling refreshed, happier and healthier every day.
Welcome to my blog
There is a lot of information around on the importance of looking after our health, like maintaining a healthy diet and plenty of exercise. This is all well and good if your aim is just to keep your body healthy. But what about your brain?
From chocolate to coffee and sleep, to sharper smarter thinking, join me for an article or three as I share insights, tips and ideas on what it takes to keep your brain operating at full speed, so you can wake up feeling refreshed, happier and healthier every day.
Why acceptance is vital to optimising your mental wellbeing and helps you deal with those bad hair days
Oh no! You’ve stuffed up. Again.
If you’re now deriding yourself for being such a clot, stop!
All that self-flagellation with birch twigs is completely unnecessary, as is wearing that horrible hair shirt.
It’s time for some self-compassion and acceptance that you’re human and as such prone to acts of stupidity and mindless behaviour on a regular basis, like everyone else.
Are You Always Looking at Your Stress with The Wrong Glasses On?
Stress is one of those things that can cause a lot of angst when we feel we’ve reached the limit of our coping skills. Tipping over into the danger zone of too much stress, whether short or long, triggers the stress response that is primarily designed to keep us safe.
But what if you could hack your stress to make it more useful to you?
Discover the Key to Our Future Economic and Social Recovery
As we move into our third year of co-existence with this novel virus, many businesses, organisations, and individuals are asking – “What’s next?” and “What do we need for recovery?”
The answer is simple.
We have a massive opportunity to change for the better, especially when it comes to mental wellbeing.
• It’s going to take time – but hopefully less time than you think.
• It’s going to take effort – but there is a massive desire to make this happen.
• It’s going to require a new vision – but there’s a mass of new ideas and science backed research to help.
• It’s going to be an ongoing work in progress – because change, disruption and stress will always be our companions in this messy process we call life.
The four key areas include self-care, emotional wisdom, connection and clarity of thought and there are four steps to get you there.
Why Adding More Gratitude to Your Mental Well-being Toolbox can Supercharge your Health and Happiness
Feeling good, enjoying great health and happiness isn’t something we can take for granted.
But it IS something you can build using one small thing.
It’s called gratitude.
And while it may seem small, that spoken or written thank-you can have a significant positive impact on your overall mental wellbeing.
Beyond your good intentions, what does self-care really look like to you this Christmas?
What are you looking forward to as the Christmas festivities draw nearer? Are you hanging out for some time off? Looking forward to being on holiday? Perhaps you’re going to treat yourself to some nice things you don’t normally allow yourself to enjoy?
My question is – why don’t we enable our self-care activities to be part and parcel of our every day?
We can’t take every day off, but we can do so much better in addressing how we look after ourselves without the guilt and shame that comes from not getting any further than having that good intention.
Self-care doesn’t have to be hard or onerous, unless we make it so.
How to Identify the Top Five Essentials to Focus on for a More Humanised, Positive and Successful Workplace
What is going to be your primary focus in 2022?
Whatever your focus, you will have chosen it for a reason and for many, workplace wellbeing is taking top place.
Workplace wellbeing is now seen, not as a nice to have, but an imperative to the creation of healthy and positive workplaces that are attractive to work in.
