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26Jan

4 Things I Wish I'd Known When I Started Working

Fergus O'Connell

career, communication, jobs, stress, work

Work

Stress at work is one of the biggest causes of illness in the UK. Here's four pieces of advice to make your work-life balance less stressful.
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22Jan

5 Ways to Stay Focused

Graham Doke

meditation, stress, tips, wellbeing

Soul

Meditation expert Graham Doke offers five ways to stay focused on your resolutions this year.
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19Jan

Beating 'Blue Monday'

Rachel Kelly

depression, stress, therapy

Soul

Today is allegedly ‘Blue Monday’, the gloomiest day of the year. Workers are being asked to dress in flamboyant colours in their offices to help them overcome the January blues. Mental Health Research UK says we should let loose with bright patterns and fabrics on 'Blue Monday', renamed 'Blooming Monday' by the campaigners - a spot of ‘wearapy’ as some therapists call it. The idea is to lift our collective mood and raise awareness of depression and seasonal affective disorder (SAD), as well as raise money to combat mental health issues. SAD is a...
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25Aug

Military Stress

anxiety, counselling, PTSD, stress, therapy

Therapists

Experienced naval therapist explains the emotional isolation and Post Traumatic Stress which both sailors, marines and their partners suffer.
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11Aug

Under Pressure: As a Millennial experiencing the Quarter Life Crisis

Alice Stapleton

career, love, stress

Soul

Increasing numbers of generation Y are experiencing a quarter life crisis due to the barrage of work and social pressures of the modern age.
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25Jun

Why is There So Much Anxiety?

Sue Cowan-Jenssen

anxiety, counselling, stress, therapy

Therapists

Modern life seems to feature more anxiety as people struggle with fear of exclusion, reports therapist Sue Cowan-Jenssen In my work as a therapist I have come to understand that, often, underlying our deepest anxieties are...
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30May

Floating: Technologically Assisted Mindfulness

Aaron Balick

mindfulness, stress

Therapists

When is the last time you did absolutely nothing for two hours? Floating can minimise distractions to the degree that all you are left with is your own mind
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16May

How to Enjoy Work More

Tim Robson

career, stress

Work

Ideas and strategies for enjoying your working life more
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14May

How to Gain Power From Misfortune

Ryan Holiday

stress, unemployment

Mind

This obstacle in front of you —this frustrating, unfortunate, problematic, unexpected problem preventing you from doing what you want to do. How do you tackle it? What do you do? Probably what most people would do, and what you are doing right now: nothing. Whatever our individual goals, most of us sit frozen before the many obstacles that lie ahead of us. But what blocks us? Systemic issues of rising unemployment, skyrocketing costs of education, and technological disruption? Or personal insecurities of being too old, too scared, too poor, too stressed, no access, no...
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30Apr

Dealing with Difficult Family Members

Jane McGregor

communication, family, psychology, stress

Relationships

Learn to communicate with difficult family members by understanding what makes them tick
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