Hardly a day passes without reference in the news to mental health problems, especially in children and young people. What can we do to protect ourselves from the psychological harm of feeling too much concern about things over which we have almost no control?
Continue readingThe Thomas Cook collapse got me thinking about holidays and what they are for. Amongst the many different answers to that question, a common one is “to get away from it all”. But what exactly are we getting away from? And why do we feel we need to?
Continue readingWe experience stress when pressure exceeds our ability to cope. This is a really interesting article from the BPS on “stress mindset”
Continue readingKnowing about how different personality types respond to grief can help family members understand and empathise with each other at this difficult time…
Continue readingLife after a bereavement is never the same again, so the goal is to build a new life while still valuing the grief you feel. The SPICE model, which looks after the whole person, can help you do this.
Continue readingI have just caught up with Simon Mundie’s interview of Kelly Holmes about whether self-belief is the single most important factor in success. A good question to ask in the week when the Liverpool and Spurs football teams delighted their fans……
Continue readingHow will you use the Easter break (if you have one)? How about taking stock of those New Year’s resolutions? How are things going? Are you spending enough time on the things that give your life a sense of meaning and purpose?
Continue readingAre you a “happy together” mother or an “action adventure” mother or, like me, a “love of learning” mother? I came across The M.O.M.S Handbook[1] (MOMS = mothers of many styles) twenty years ago when my children were aged 9 and 7…..
Continue readingNobody could be wholly introvert or wholly extravert – if they were, they’d be a hermit or a 24/7 party animal. In reality, we are all a mixture of the two,
Continue readingThey say that the third week of January is the most depressing of the year. Not for me this year, as I am off to Sri Lanka on a wildlife-spotting holiday. But if I were not, what could I do to keep my spirits up?
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