Self deprecation achieves nothing but making yourself feel rubbish, yet it is something many people do on a regularly in life. Some people are hard on themselves even when receiving praise and feedback. If this sounds familiar you might find the following article to be useful. Here is an extract from the course “If your…
Category: mental health
How to Celebrate Small Wins to Achieve Big Goals
We learn to celebrate our big wins and achievements in life – as we should do, but we often skip over the small successes. Small successes can be components of every day life, but they can actually be the events that add a lot of meaning to our lives. Learning how to focus on small…
Video Games and Depression
I recently read a fantastic blog on they ways depression can hit and impact our lives. This particular blog explores the mental health journey of a video game player who recognised something did not feel right when depression led to their loss of enjoyment of gaming. I would encourage you to read this blog as…
Blog: recovery part two
Hello everyone I hope everyone is well. In my last lock I wrote about my recent injury and how I am recovering from this. This blog is pretty much an update on how this is going. Mental health is really important, and just as important as our physical health. Our mental health is less visible…
Time to talk day 2022
3 February 2022 is Time to Talk day. So this blog is simply to highlight that day and talk about talking. I want to include a quote from the home page “A small conversation about mental health has the power to make a big difference. We know that the more conversations we have, the more myths…
Happiness Calendar: February 2022
The Action for Happiness charity have released their wellbeing calendar for February 2022 The theme for February 2022 is “Friendly February” – which is aimed to give you a focus on reaching out to connect with others and doing our best to be a good friend. One action to try each day of the month…
Blog: Recovery
Recently I’ve been recovering from an injury, which has prevented me from running since the middle of December last year. Having an injury can be very annoying, not just for our physical health but also for our mental health. Exercise is a great way to positively boost our mental health and our overall well being….
Blog: the clock will stop ticking
The clock keeps ticking and time goes on. But at some point life will end. You never quite know how or when that will be. Life is short. Our journey on this planet is not limitless. What would you do if you knew this was your last day to be alive? That’s quite scary to…
Blue Monday is a massive lie!!!
Do not fall for the bullshit that is blue Monday. The mainstream media will peddle this shit to you. Blue Monday has its origins as a marketing campaign for a holiday company to sell holidays. The mainstream media has since started telling people it is the most depressing day of the year They are lying…
Brew Monday
Hi everyone, today is supposedly ‘Blue Monday’, the most difficult day of the year etc etc etc. This is a myth, a fad made up by a holiday company in order to sell holidays. James wrote a blog last year that covers it: https://betterdayswellbeing.com/2021/01/18/blue-monday/ We all have good and bad days, it is not just…
Better Days Wellbeing 