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16Dec

Using Mindfulness to Manage Loneliness

Gill Hasson

loneliness, mindfulness, selfcare, wellbeing

Soul

Unfortunately, loneliness is something we all experience from time to time. Here's how mindfulness can help you manage lonely feelings
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14Dec

Using Mindfulness to Overcome Insomnia Part 3

Guy Meadows

mindfulness, sleep, wellbeing

Soul

How accepting your thoughts through mindfulness practice can help you deal with your insomnia.
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12Dec

Should We Embrace Excess at Christmas?

Ros Coward

Christmas, society

Soul

There are only 12 shopping days before Christmas, but I wonder if it’s time we all called time on the mad rush of thoughtless consumerism that seems to have overtaken the season. Confronted with heaps of packaged gifts, and adverts encouraging us to ‘buy , buy , buy’, the expressions that come to my mind as Christmas approaches are not ‘good cheer’ and 'merriness’ but   ‘enough’ and, ‘too much’. Before the Christmas turkey has even hit the table I’ve lost my appetite, overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of stuff. Yet these feelings aren’t straightforward....
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07Dec

Using Mindfulness to Overcome Insomnia Part 2

Guy Meadows

mindfulness, sleep

Soul

Part 2 of our series of tips and exercises to help you overcome insomnia using mindfulness.
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04Dec

How to Be Vulnerable - And Find Your Real Self

Philippa Perry

loneliness, love, relationships, self, selfcare

Soul

Being vulnerable is scary. But allowing yourself to be so is really important, for yourself and your relationships.
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30Nov

Using Mindfulness to Overcome Insomnia

Guy Meadows

mindfulness, sleep

Soul

In the first part of a series for Welldoing, Guy Meadows shares his effective mindfulness techniques to help you manage and overcome insomnia.
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28Nov

Culture Tip: The Homesman

Jacqueline Palmer

culture, films

Soul

Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones star in The Homesman, a powerful film which addresses feminism and mental health issues.
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22Nov

Using Mindfulness to Banish Negative Self-Talk

Gill Hasson

confidence, mindfulness, self, self compassion, wellbeing

Soul

It's important to be mindful of negative self-talk. Here are some ways you can help yourself accept your thoughts and turn them around.
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21Nov

Culture Tip: Grayson Perry's Who Are You?

Camilla Nicholls

creativity, culture

Soul

The Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry talking recently about Who Are You?, his display of new works at the National Portrait Gallery in London, commented that, “identity is one of those words that gets used a lot particularly in political terms and it always seems a slippery term to me”. In this diverse collection of 14 portraits shown in the Gallery’s nineteenth and twentieth century rooms Perry uses his fierce intelligence and particularly winning aesthetic to try to pin that term down. The works have all been made in response to meeting...
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07Nov

The True Value of Volunteering in Sport

Join In

exercise, society, volunteer, wellbeing

Soul

Here at Join In, we often see the effect that volunteering has on people. We love hearing how rewarding our volunteers find it to help others, and make a difference in their communities. So we decided to look into the subject a little bit more with an independent online survey. What did we find? Our first conclusion was that volunteering in sport makes you happier. This wasn’t exactly new- previous research in other volunteering sectors has found much the same thing. The big question was how much happier? Could we quantify this? Well, yes we could. The results...
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