As anyone will know who has read my previous articles, I like to start by defining the subject about which I am talking and here I am, trying to define World Mental Health Day. I see little point in defining…
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RADIO: The Business of Psychology
Dr Jasmin Langdon-Daly is a Clinical Psychologist and specialises in eating disorders. Hear Louisa “Wizzi” Magnussen chat to Jasmin about the Business of Psychology, how far it has come in the last 50 years and how competitive it is to…
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SUPPORTING ARTICLE & RADIO: Emotional Literacy Explained
Gill Seaton-Jardine is a Counsellor/Psychotherapist with over 20 years’ experience working with all ages, including young children. During these years she wrote and presented a ten-week course on emotional literacy to pre school age children to help them understand theirs,…
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RADIO: The Business of Invisible Illness Show on Connections Radio
Melony Hill is the founder of Stronger Than My Struggles, a mission-based organization with a focus on mental health and wellness. She has made it her mission to curate safe spaces to have hard conversations, especially in urban and under-served…
SUPPORT: Connectedness to Tackle Loneliness
By Gill Jardine, Counsellor/Psychotherapist When considering the subject of loneliness and how to tackle it, it may be useful to first try to understand what loneliness is. Loneliness is a feeling, an emotion, which is probably experienced by everyone at…
SUPPORT: Connecting with Nature for Mental Health Awareness Week
As we head for what should be the hottest of our seasons, stepping out into nature is perhaps becoming a more welcome activity after what has seemed a particularly long winter. As the sun pokes out through the clouds and…
SUPPORT: Making a case for Self-Compassion
Self-compassion is not the same as ‘being kind to yourself’ or ‘self-care’, although this can certainly be part of it. Nor is it about ‘letting yourself off the hook’ or saying ‘everything I do is fantastic’. For me, self-compassion is…
SUPPORT – An Introduction to Promoting Understanding through Language
Language, as we know, is a tool. We use this tool to communicate, to connect with one another, to share the experience of our individual lives. This clearly has the ability to be a very powerful tool which can be…
SUPPORT: Making sense of Mental Health Struggles: The ‘Stress Bucket’ Analogy – Free Audio Book Available
Struggling with our mental health is hard enough, but often the experience is made worse by a side dish of questions and self-criticism. Why is this happening to me? What does it mean? I am weak? Mad? Bad? The reality…
SUPPORT: Relationships and the Pandemic – A Follow up Guide – Free Audio Book Available
We keep hearing the expression ‘household’ recently, talking about what a ‘household’ is allowed to do and what it is not allowed to do. The reason for this is that the government are constantly measuring the effect of the virus…
SUPPORT: Quick Tip Video: How to Reduce Anxiety
Supporting partner of mindsanonymous.com and mental health & wellbeing coach and expert, Tracy Douthwaite from waytowellbeing.co.uk takes us through a quick tip to reduce anxiety.
SUPPORT: Anxiety – A User Guide – Free Audio Book Available
As an experience, anxiety can be deeply unpleasant, exhausting, a crippling and disabling force that stands in the way of us living the lives we want. When we talk about ‘having anxiety’, or ‘anxiety problems’ we are normally thinking about…
SUPPORT: Relationships and the Pandemic – Free Audio Book Available
Firstly, what is a ‘pandemic’? We can break the word down into two parts 1. pan and 2. demic. According to the Collins English Dictionary ‘pan’ means ‘all or every’ or ‘relating to all parts or members’, the ‘demic’ part…
SUPPORT: Living with Uncertainty
This year has certainly been one of uncertainty and change, more than ever we have seen how external influences can impact our mental health and wellbeing. There are many ways we can support our wellbeing both individually and in workplaces…
SUPPORT: Understanding Mental Health and Mental Illness
In this first edition to our supporting articles series, we will attempt to demystify some of the terminology used in this area. Outlining what we mean by mental health and looking into how to recognise the signs of mental illness….
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