How gratitude rewires your brain

Gratitude and focusing on it can help to boost the positivity in your life. Its good for your wellbeing, as well as your overall wellbeing. There is a great TedTalk on this topic, which explore this further. Here is a blurb for the video “When a psychologist who studies well-being ends up with a brain…

Habits That Secretly Make You Feel Bad About Yourself

These traps can lead to poor self-esteem, guilt, anger and more. Here’s what to look for and how to fix them. Another great article from the team at Huff Post. “This is one of several behaviours that can cause us to be mad at (or even hate) ourselves. Here are some other sneaky actions impeding…

Dealing With Difficult Work Relationships

Jobs feel harder than ever, but this popular therapist has some great advice. There is a great article over on Huff Post that gives some hints and tips from Esther Perel. “You are not alone, in other words, if you are feeling stuck at your job or at a dead end with your colleagues and…

Blog: Loneliness

Hello Happy Monday, I hope everyone is well and you. had a great weekend. I had a good weekend with a mix of great workouts, at little socialising and some good me time. Hope whatever you did was great. Today is the 14th of February. For some people this day is celebrated as Valentine’s Day,…

Always Too Hard on Yourself?

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…

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…