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17Jul

Why Everyone Should Go On a Retreat

Charlotte Watts

health, retreats, self, society, stress, wellbeing

Soul

Charlotte Watts, author of The De-Stress Effect, explains the universal benefits of going on a retreat, whether you think you're a retreat kind of person or not.
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09Jun

Stress, IBS and the Gut-Brain Axis

Benjamin Brown

anxiety, cbt, depression, gut, microbiome, nutrition, stress, therapy, wellbeing

Body

What's the connection between our bowels and our brain? Benjamin Brown explains how to improve IBS symptoms by managing stress.
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27May

7 Ways to Manage Exam Stress

Welldoing

self, stress, student, tips, university

Work

Therapist Dawn Hastings shares her seven tips to help keep exam stress at bay, look after yourself and perform your best.
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09May

What is Craniosacral Therapy?

Jacqueline van Roosmalen

complementaryhealth, massage, stress, therapy, wellbeing

Therapists

Therapist Jacqueline Van Roosmalen explains Craniosacral therapy; a practice primarily concerned with balance at all levels: emotional, physical, mental and spiritual.
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08May

Using Mindfulness to Avoid Adrenal Fatigue

Charlotte Watts

anxiety, depression, mindfulness, self, stress, wellbeing

Body

What is adrenal fatigue? Learn how you can avoid 'burnout' by embracing mindfulness.
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02Apr

How Stress Manifests in Different Areas of the Body

Charlotte Watts

body, emotions, health, stress, wellbeing

Body

Stress is a whole body response; it affects us physically and mentally. Charlotte Watts explains how stress manifests in the body, in the short and long-term.
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30Mar

Jeremy Clarkson Diagnosis: An Extreme Case of Hanger

Jeannette Hyde

anger, nutrition, stress

Nutritionists

Nutritional therapist Jeannette Hyde diagnoses a serious case of low blood sugar in Jeremy Clarkson's recent fracas
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27Mar

Why The Andreas Lubitz Case Shouldn’t Stigmatise Depression

Louise Chunn

depression, society, stress, suicide

Mind

​We are all shocked and saddened by the death of 150 people in the Germanwings crash in the French Alps earlier this week. But as reports arise that link the deaths with co-pilot Andreas Lubitz's history of depression, many have faulted the way the media is reporting this tragic story. Headlines such as Killer Pilot Suffered from Depression (Mirror), Madman in Cockpit (Sun) and Why Was He Allowed to Fly (Mail) have, according to a joint press release from the mental health charities Mind, Time to Change and Rethink Mental Illness, been overly simplistic.
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25Mar

Digital Detox at Middle Piccadilly

Louise Chunn

retreats, spas, stress, technology, wellbeing

Soul

Rather than staying away from easy addictions like alcohol or sugar, you are expected to dis-avow the very oxygen of 21st century life: the internet. For me this is complicated by two contradictory facts: I have founded a business on the internet; the business is to promote well-ness, which can be destroyed by the downsides of the internet. And yet I craved the chance to detach myself from its distractions.
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20Mar

International Happiness Day: Go Out and Play

Elisha Goldstein

anxiety, depression, happiness, society, stress, wellbeing

Soul

Children play. Nobody has to show them how to do it; they're just born knowing.  But as adults, we become so disconnected from it that we forget what it is and how to do it. Psychiatrist Stuart Brown, who founded the nonprofit organisation National Institute of Play in California, says: 'Play is an ancient, voluntary, inherently pleasurable, apparently purposeless activity or process that is undertaken for its own sake, and that strengthens our muscles and social skills, fertilises brain activity, tempers and deepens out emotions, take us out of time, and enables a...
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