The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men Often go Awry – A Very Personal Story
A personal story about dealing with stress
A Christmas ‘To Do’ List with a Difference – from Doing to Being in 5 Easy Steps
What’s in a List? A friend recently shared this meme and it spoke volumes to me about how we can best serve ...
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How to Free Yourself from Thinking Traps this Festive Season
When our reserves are low, it’s easy to fall into thinking traps; we’re either ruminating on the past or ...
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Why am I so Tired? Exploring our Allostatic Load
Feeling ‘MEH’? Wherever you are reading this, it’s probably safe to assume that things are still very ...
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Mastering your GAME PLAY this Holiday Season
How to make sure you leave 2020 and start 2021 in the best mindset possible. Learn to relax, play, be present and ...
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Time for a Selfie – Turning the Lens on Ourselves for Self-care
There has never been a time greater than now to prioritise some self-care and take a few practical steps to refresh ...
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Resilience Bites #10 – Getting Comfortable with Change
We’re starting to hear conversations about ‘getting back to normal’ and ‘returning to the old ways’. This is a ...
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Resilience Bites #7 – The Enduring Power of Gratitude
It has been very moving to see people beginning to go back to some parts of the lives they once knew and sharing ...
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Resilience Bites #6 – Smile Though Your Heart is Aching
Were the writers of the song 'Smile' right when they invited us to ‘smile though your heart is aching’? From a ...
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Resilience Bites #5 – Why Connection is Critical
Our need for connection is being challenged more than ever before - it is critical for us human beings to stay ...
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Resilience Bites #3 – Feeding Our Brain for Resilience
Our willpower is being tested to the hilt whilst we're in 'lockdown' resulting in the temptation to raid the fridge ...
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Resilience Bites #2 – How to Unleash our Superhero Brain
One of the critical skills of resilience lies between our ears, learning how to calm our instinctual emotional ...
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Resilience Bites #1 – Self-isolating doesn’t mean self-isolation
As Australia does what it needs to do to contain this pandemic, we are being told to self-isolate. A friend posted ...
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What Exercise REALLY does to your Brain
Welcome to the final part of our series on self-care. If you missed part 1 on Quality Sleep, click here and if you ...
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Are you feeding your Brain for Success?
Welcome to part 2 of 3 in our series on self-care. If you missed part 1 on quality sleep, it’s just below ...
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What is Poor quality Sleep Really Costing You?
We’re all aware of the need for regular exercise and good nutrition to maintain a healthy lifestyle, but possibly ...
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Why Zebras* (and probably Reindeer) won’t be stressing this Christmas
Understanding your Brain on Stress How many of us are worrying about organising Christmas, stressing about ...
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Strategies for Building Certainty in Chaos and Change
When our core needs are not met we go into aversive or negative stress, when we go into stress we cannot think ...
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Gratitude in the Workplace and why it Matters
Gratitude underpins resilience and our life satisfaction levels (happiness). When we are faced with setbacks and ...
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The Importance of Quality Sleep and Why I love my Blackout Blind
When we arrived in the UK in March, the first thing we noticed was that the sky wasn’t dark at night. In ...
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