I hope you are well – it is Friday. I have said a couple of times already, but I’ve been a little quieter than normal the last two weeks. I started a new job and have also been under taking the Mental Health first aider course, which I am happy to say I completed this…
Category: Gratitude
Gratitude Letter
Practicing gratitude is really good for our mental health and our overall wellbeing. It can help us to become less materialistic and to calm ourselves by focusing on the here and now, reducing worry about the unknowns of the future. Not only practicing gratitude for our own lives is important, paying forward thanks to others…
Midweek Blog and Round Up: 10 March
Happy Wednesday to you all. Things have been quiet around here for the last few days, as I have been busy with the Mental Health First Aid course, as well as being unwell over the weekend, so I’ve had to very much focus my attentions on just getting through the last few days. Life is…
Get ready to have a good day by making a few smart moves the night before
If you feel different than you did 12 months ago (and not in the best of ways), you’re not the only one. When it hasn’t been an acute tragedy, this pandemic has been a slow grind, and the loss of regular movement and human contact is hard on the mind and body, period. But there are some…
Better Days Blog: My Pandemic Journey
When we think of 2020, many of us will immediately think of words like lockdown, pandemic, covid-19, coronavirus, My personal pandemic journey began a year ago on 4 March 2020, that is when the old “normal life” came to an end for me. I flew to Gran Canaria for a five night holiday, and returned…
Midweek Blog and Round Up
Hello All I hope you are having a good week. It a very busy week for me, a lot is going off in and out of work at the moment. I’ve been spending a lot of time planning of late. Planning out work in my new job, planning out training and work for the positivity…
Don’t Waste Your Rock Bottom
On August 1st, 1976, Formula One racing legend Niki Lauda crashed at the Nürburgring. In an instant, his car burst into flames, his helm flew off, and he was trapped in the wreckage. Other drivers were able to pull him from the car, but because of the burns he suffered and toxic fumes he inhaled,…
Better days blog: Knowledge
Hello I hope you had a great weekend. It was a nice change of pace for me this weekend. I ventured just a little further away from my village to a local country park where I have not been for a run previously. There was so much sunshine, spring flowers and a beautiful lake to…
What it means to be a man today
The world we live in is full of stereotypes. When it comes to being a man, it seems we have a stereotype that we must all be masculine, macho alpha males. If a man is anything that is different to this stereotype he is viewed by many to be weak or less than. These stereotypes…
MIDWEEK: Blog and Round Up
Yes, its actually Thursday. Its been a busy week, starting a new job and quite a few factors have meant I have had to carefully manage my time. The clock keeps ticking, and I’ve been trying not to work too many extra hours 😊 Time management is a skill, but it is also a good…
Better Days Wellbeing 