Each month the charity Action for Happiness publishes a wellbeing calendar, this includes prompts and suggestions to take each day to boost your wellbeing For September 2024, the theme is “Self Care September.” This calendar gives you daily prompts to look after yourself. I’ve attached this as a PDF, and as an image. You can…
Settling Sunday night anxiety
I have experienced the Sunday night horrors, scaries or blues many times in my life. It can be a really unsettling feeling, sometimes it can be a severe anxiety episode. Head over to Calm for a great article on tips to settle your mind from these feelings.
Sleep Hacks
Sleeping well is a really important part of our overall health. Good or bad sleep has such a profound impact on both mental and physical sleep. Whether its short or long term, there is an impact. At any age, focusing on good sleep is critical to positive wellbeing. Mind journal have a great article with…
Choose progress over perfection
Perfection is a lie – that’s something I say quite a lot. Chasing perfection adds a huge burden to your life, which can be very hard when life is supposed to be messy. Focusing on progression rather than perfection can be a positive way forward. Head over to Beard Brand for an interesting article on…
Explore ways to reduce stress and cortisol levels
Calm posted a great article on ways to reduce cortisol levels to naturally reduce your stress levels. Its an interesting read that explores what stress is and its impacts. Here is a short quote from the article “Stress can be a natural, and even healthy, part of our modern lives. We all feel the crunch…
Ted Talk: Is it normal to talk to yourself?
Being caught talking to yourself can feel embarrassing, and some people even stigmatize this behaviour as a sign of mental instability. But decades of research show that talking to yourself is completely normal; most if not all of us engage in some form of self-talk every day. So why do we talk to ourselves? And…
Sleep Hacks
Sleeping well is a really important part of our overall health. Good or bad sleep has such a profound impact on both mental and physical sleep. Whether its short or long term, there is an impact. At any age, focusing on good sleep is critical to positive Mindjournal have a great article with seven tips…
Ted Talk: Is it normal to talk to yourself
Being caught talking to yourself can feel embarrassing, and some people even stigmatize this behaviour as a sign of mental instability. But decades of research show that talking to yourself is completely normal; most if not all of us engage in some form of self-talk every day. So why do we talk to ourselves? And…
Choose progress over perfection
Perfection is a lie – that’s something I say quite a lot. Chasing perfection adds a huge burden to your life, which can be very hard when life is supposed to be messy. Focusing on progression rather than perfection can be a positive way forward. Head over to Beard Brand for an interesting article on…
The Gut Feeling
At some point in life we’ve all experienced the gut feeling. Its not just a saying we have, there is connections between our gut and our brains. Head over to the Clevland Clinic for an interesting article exploring these connections. Here is a short extract from the article Your brain talks to your gut, and…
