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07Mar

Why We Need International Women's Day

Terri Apter

men, society, women

Soul

Explanations of women’s under-representation in science, technology, engineering and maths (only 14% of women entering University choose science related subjects, compared to 39% of boys) are usually stacked up like layers on a wedding cake. The bottom layer, the stodgy foundation, is about “hard wiring”.  Fortunately, claiming that gender career segregation is down to differences in women’s and men’s brains is now high risk; though this claim has helped launch one Cambridge professor as a star, it has also brought down one Harvard president. Girls opt for...
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06Mar

Healing Music

Terry Snow

creativity, music, wellbeing

Soul

Music often strikes a chord with us deep down, even if we don't understand why. Terry Snow explores the healing power of music composition and listening.
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05Mar

Life After a Break Up Part 2

Chris Taylor

counselling, couple, love, single, therapy

Therapists

The second part of our advice on how to move on after a break up - this week focusing on loss, acceptance and impermanence.
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04Mar

A Happier, Healthier You: The Welldoing How To Guide

Welldoing

anxiety, books, depression, mindfulness, wellbeing

Soul

This is just a quick post, to proudly announce that we have published an eBook: A Happier, Healthier You: The Welldoing How To Guide We have collected contributions from a wonderful array of experts, psychologists and writers, who offer their best advice on subjects that will – we hope – serve to make life less stressful and more enjoyable and balanced for you too. This How To Guide is all about your mind and body, with advice ranging from how best to start the day, how to build inner strength, how to find the job you love - and everything in between. And it's...
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04Mar

Suicide Prevention: How You Can Help

Gill Green

bereavement, depression, suicide

Mind

What can we do to help if we suspect someone we know is thinking of suicide?
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03Mar

Why Self-Compassion is as Important as Self-Esteem

Rachel Kelly

empathy, family, love, wellbeing

Mind

My eleven-year-old daughter was complaining about her friend Mary. ‘She’s keeps boasting about her new school,’ she confided, looking despondent. ‘It’s got the most amazing netball courts and clubs for everything...and she’s got much nicer clothes than me...' As she began to sob, spouting a familiar litany about how her life was so much worse than Mary’s, I thought of Kristen Neff. She’s an American academic from Houston, who has put numbers to what I’ve long suspected as the mother of two daughters: the competition game starts young, and girls in particular...
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02Mar

Food and Sex: Should We Give In to Our Cravings?

Alexandra Jamieson

nutrition, sex, wellbeing, women

Body

Taste. Lick. Suck. Bite. This thing we do, every day, all day long, is a driving desire in life. We work for it, think about it, crave things to consume. The innocent act of eating can sound so lustful. And, eating food is, at its core, incredibly sexual. Birds and bees pollinate flowers, the sexual organs of fruiting trees and plants, and we eat the results of these unions. In fact, eating is the most intimate thing we do with other people…in public. We take nourishment into our bodies at every meal, just as we take another person into us when...
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27Feb

Expressive Writing for Mental Wellbeing

Dennis Relojo-Howell

anxiety, creativity, depression, wellbeing

Soul

Expressive writing , sometimes called written emotional disclosure, is a fancy term for such a simple act: expressing oneself through writing. Most of us have done it at one point in our lives through keeping a journal or a diary. But of course, with modern age, it is now being done with a keyboard. To some extent, keeping a personal blog can be considered as a form of expressive writing. Tracing the roots of expressive writing Expressive writing is a therapy introduced by Pennebaker and Beall in the late 1980s. Their pioneering work (Pennebaker & Beall, 1986)...
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26Feb

Life After a Break Up

Chris Taylor

breakups, couple, love, relationships, single

Therapists

The end of a relationship can be traumatic, no matter what the circumstances. Welldoing therapist Chris Taylor offers his healing tips in a 2 part series.
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25Feb

Under Pressure: Societal Goals and Stress

Michael Hyland

society, stress

Mind

Failure to achieve important goals induces stress. Although some of these important goals (such as the need for control, competence and relationships) are universal, there are substantial variations between societies in the way goals are expressed. People’s goals are determined to a large extent by the society in which they live. If, within a particular society, high value is placed on things that most people achieve, then most people will experience few stressors. However, if high value is placed on things that few achieve, then many people will experience...
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