Exercise is great for your mental health, as well as your physical health. Remember: You do not need to be Athletic or a super active person to benefit. I personally love exercise. I love planning my workouts, trying new things and the muscle soreness after a great workout that tells me I’ve worked hard. I…
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Wellbeing Calendar: Self Care September
Self care is really important – it is never selfish. Looking after yourself is so important, how can you expect to look after others if you don’t care for yourself too? I’ve been really unwell for the last 48 hours, so I’ve had to focus on my own selfcare to get myself back to where…
Blog: Perfect? Perfection? Erm, No Thanks!
Hello I hope all is well. I had a busy weekend making urgent changes to my garden fencing following an attempted break in recently. I’m grateful they failed, and my security cameras recorded everything. The new fence amendments are not perfect, but certainly are an improvement. Perfect – its quite a simple word isn’t it,…
Get Active Blog: Refresh
Hello World I hope everyone is doing well this week. I recently had a revamp of my exercise goals. I found my previous goals were impacting my enjoyment, and it was time for a refresh. I am now focusing purely on the goals of boosting and maintaining intensity and keeping the exercise enjoyable. I’ve added…
Blog: Find your awesome
I had a great conversation yesterday at work – and to basically sum it up I said: “you don’t need to compete against anyone else in life to be awesome.” We often compare ourselves to others. People are unique. All the complex factors that make up a life means we all have a unique existence….
Blog: Digital Wellbeing and Online Abuse
Hello World I hope you are having a good week. I recently posted a couple of blogs around the topic of Digital Wellbeing, and I am going to touch on that today. Social Media has many positives, particularly during the pandemic it helped us stay in touch and communicate. For me personally I rely on…
Events from the Charity for Civil Servants
Here is the UK, there is an excellent organisation that supports Civil Servants in life and through their careers. Here is a link to the Charity for Civil Servants. The Charity has a number of free wellbeing and mental health events coming up over the next few months, and I wanted to share these with…
Action for Happiness Calendar: August 2021
This month’s action for happiness calendar is called Altruistic August 2021. This gives you an action point for each day of the month to boost your wellbeing. You can find out more over on their website here
Blog: How I stop negative thoughts
I hope you are all having a good week, but if you are not, I hope you are finding ways to cope through difficult times. We all have negative thoughts. In the short term they can be overwhelming – in the long term they can cause more serious mental ill health conditions. How we deal…
Blog: Social Media
Hello World Happy Friday – I hope all is well. We often hear about the pros and cons of social media. I’m not entering into that debate today, but I have been refining my own social media presence to only interact with value adding sources and people. It has certainly enhanced the time I do…
Better Days Wellbeing 