As we head into December, many of us are looking forward to Christmas and many find it a struggle. The team at Charlie Waller have developed a kindness calendar with some ideas to spread kindness and self care in the run up to the festive season that I wanted to share with you: https://charliewaller.org/media/xssddy3g/0039-advent-of-kindness-2022-adult.pdf
Boost Your Mood
We all have times whereby we need a positive to boost a low mood. Our mental health is just as important as our physical health, so it’s vital that we do what we can to take care of it. The following article from Mr Porter gives us many ways that we can give ourselves a…
Blog: Mass Effect Therapy
A couple of years ago I wrote a blog about how video games helped me manage my wellbeing. I now find myself thinking about this topic again. Here is a short quote from the blog that sets the scene for my blog today: “I have always been a fan of science fiction since being a…
Blog: Go with gratitude
In the USA, today (24 November) is known as thanksgiving. To anyone who is celebrating, I hope you enjoy your day. I am British, so it’s not an event I celebrate. However, I do think expressing gratitude and the things we are thankful for is a rewarding exercise to do on any day of the…
Winter Self Check in tool
I’d like to share a quick check in tool – ask yourself 10 question to see how you are getting in. This is a “holiday” edition of this tool from IDONTMIND.
Blog: Unavailable
This age of always on Internet connection means we are often always reachable. Notifications seem to have become a major feature of our lives. A phone call, a message, social media, random apps… there’s a notification for that. Digitally, we always seem to in demand. That can be exhausting and time consuming. It happens in…
Blog: Oh My Word
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” You might be familiar with that saying, it is one I often heard teachers say at school to reassure me/others when people were being nasty. I think the idea is we were supposed to use that as a comeback when we were…
Blog: Urgent Action
** This blog was written on 2 November – which was also world stress day ** I was presenting a training course today and one element of the session was looking at bad coping techniques for stress. The section of the training course I was delivering used an example not to overwork as a coping…
Pets and your Wellbeing
Pets have always been part of my life. We’ve had many animals that have all been part of the family. We recently moved overseas and out of the blue we got asked if we wanted to take in a tortoise. Of course we had to accept. NiH states that interacting with animals has been shown…
Blog: What is normal?
I remember a conversation I had with my dad more than 10 years ago, my Mum was in the hospital just for a day routine surgery. I called my dad at lunchtime for any updates on my mum, but he hadn’t heard anything at that point. He told me he was struggling to relax and…
Better Days Wellbeing 