Meditation
In last week's Q&A I talked about anxiety, stress and ways to cope. Self care and meditation are hot topics right now and rightly so, it is a brilliant way to calm yourself and get your head back into the…
Mental Health May: The Happy Kit
Coming off the back of Mental Health Awareness Week, The Happy Kit is the perfect resources for all things wellbeing. Written by me, and guided by a youth panel, the Happy Kit is the perfect mental health toolkit for any…
Anxiety and your mental health.
What is anxiety? Anxiety is one of the one most common mental health problems along with depression. It’s important to feel some level of anxiety and that it’s a natural response to when we feel that we are under threat.…
Kindness begins at home
Mental Health Awareness Week: Kindness is the over arching theme this year... We're given so may ideas about being kind to others, but first, you need to be kind to yourself! Kindness radiates from within once you are kind to…
Random Acts of Kindness
18th-25th May 2020 is Mental Health Awareness Week, with a particular focus on Kindness. With this in mind, Here are a list of random ways to project kindness into the wider world, all at a safe distance! Which is something…
Transforming Your Thinking through Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
As a freelance trainer, specialising in mental health and substance use, I have professional and personal experience of everything I teach and last year I was fortunate to receive cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for a binge eating disorder. Around the same…
The real cost of substance misuse to employers
Substance abuse covers a range of mind altering substances from illegal drugs for example, cannabis and cocaine to legal drugs such as alcohol and prescription drugs. It is defined as continued misuse that affects a person’s physical and mental health,…