Many of us are struggling with our Mental Health right now. Here are seven top tips to help you take care of yourself and those around you during these difficult times.
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Category: Individual Health
6 Tips in 2 Minutes to Help You Stay Healthy and Well This Winter!
I’ve done this 2 minute video with 6 quick tips about you can stay healthy and well this winter.
More to follow, but hope this helps!
How The Enneagram Can Help Us Be More Well
Tweet Over the last 18 years, I’ve been journeying with the help of the Enneagram – although I would say I’ve taken it more seriously over the last 6-8 years. I have found it to be utterly transformational in how I understand myself and how I can become my best self. I would recommend it [Continue Reading …]
Taming the Chimp – Living our Values, Shaping Society
Tweet Prof Steve Peters, renowned psychiatrist, (particularly for his work with Sports teams) has written a brilliant book called ‘The Chimp Paradox’, which I regularly recommend to my patients. It’s well worth the read and full of helpful and practical tools to enable effective mindset and behaviour change. In it, he teaches about the 3 [Continue Reading …]
Obesity (Part 2) – Let’s Talk About Trauma
Tweet In my last blog I looked at the complexity that surrounds the issue of obesity in our society. We have become far too focused on the individual and personal choice, whilst clouding the whole issue in shame and blame through stigmatisation. My hope is that we can talk about obesity with humility and compassion [Continue Reading …]
Obesity (Part 1) – Breaking The Stigma, Finding The Solutions
Tweet Last week Boris Johnson declared that we must do more to tackle Obesity, as the evidence has shown that it is a significant risk factor in increased mortality from Covid-19. Why it has taken this Coronavirus to wake the government up, I’m not quite sure, when we’ve known about the risk from obesity in [Continue Reading …]
Good Grief
Tweet The world has changed. We cannot go back to where we were, nor continue to head in the same direction we were set upon before this crisis. But that is easier said than done and will be impossible if we do not embrace the grief of what we are journeying through together. There has [Continue Reading …]
Staying Well During Lockdown
Tweet This time of Lockdown and Social Distancing, due to COVID-19 is not easy. It can have a significantly negative impact on our mental, physical, and emotional health and wellbeing. Difficult conversations are being had, isolation and loneliness are really tough and it’s particularly hard that we don’t know how long this period may last. [Continue Reading …]
Updated COVID19 Advice for UK Teachers, TAs and Childminders, 31st March 2020.
Tweet We live in unprecedented times and are walking over unfamiliar terrain. I posted a video last week to express gratitude and offer advice to teachers and TAs, based on the World Health Organisation’s situation report of March 6th 2020. The evidence in the WHO publication suggested that children become much less unwell than adults [Continue Reading …]
A Difficult Conversation About COVID-19 – Care Planning
Tweet For those of us more at risk from Corona Virus, over the next few days and weeks, your GP will be in touch to have a difficult conversation with you about care planning. That means a conversation about what your wishes would be, if you become very unwell from COVID-19. We find ourselves in [Continue Reading …]