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17Nov

Pregnancy Exercise : Benefits of Prenatal Yoga

Tara Lee

body, exercise, family, pregnancy, women, yoga

Body

Pregnancy yoga helps women to connect to their bodies and their babies in the womb. They learn how to move more intuitively and to trust and have confidence in their bodies during birth. Pregnancy yoga helps women sleep better and keeps aches and pains, that are common later in pregnancy, at bay. As the bump starts to get bigger and heavier and the centre of gravity shifts, some women may start to experience back pain, rib pain, hip pain and shortness of breath. Regular yoga practice can help fine tune our balance both physically and emotionally, as we...
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14Nov

Movember Moves Men's Health into Spotlight

Louise Chunn

depression, men, mensmentalhealth, society, suicide

Mind

For the past few years November has lost its harried run-up to Christmas feel and become a must-do month. Why? Movember, of course, when any self-respecting man forgoes a razor to grow a moustache (and only a moustache, no other beardy bits allowed). The money raised (by getting friends, colleagues and family to sponsor him) goes to men’s health - but more all these moustachioed men tell others what they’re doing, and - man to man - they talk about things that men rarely talk about. This week, at the Good Day at Work Conference which focused on wellbeing in...
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14Nov

Depression: What it is and How to Deal With it

Saff Mitten

counselling, depression, psychotherapy, therapy

Therapists

What is depression? Have you or a loved one suffered from depression? Tips on how you can help yourself beat it, and the benefits of seeing a therapist.
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13Nov

Ever Wondered 'Why Am I Hungry All The Time?'

Leanne Cooper

nutrition, self

Body

Ever shovel one overloaded fork of food into your mouth after another, barely taking a breath until the plate is clean? Ever wondered how you could consume so much without even being hungry? What’s happened to our appetites? Are they in control of us? They haven’t always been: did you know that into the first few years of life we actually have an inbuilt ability to regulate our energy intake? Seems if we honour this our children tend to have better appetite control down the track. There’s a clue to healthy eating right there! I’m thinking of a close family...
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12Nov

How Hypnotherapy Can Cure a Fear of Public Speaking

Alix Needham

anxiety, fear, hypnotherapy, phobias, therapy

Therapists

Many of us are familiar with the crippling fear induced by public speaking. This is one of the many problems hypnotherapy can help with, learn how here
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10Nov

Student: Coping with Depression at University

John Servante

counselling, depression, mental health, student, therapy, university

Work

A personal account of suffering from depression at university and what you can do to help.
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07Nov

iAi Debate: Madness Incorporated

Claudine Levy

society

Mind

In our post today, Welldoing brings you a video from the Institute of Arts and Ideas. In this video, President Elect of the World Psychiatric Association Dinesh Bhugra debates the nature of mental illness with psychiatrist David Healy and clinical psychologist Richard Bentall. While we commonly think that psychiatric diagnoses like depression and bipolar disorder are real, many now argue that they have little basis in reality. Should we abandon psychiatry and its classifications? Would this usher in a new era of effective health care or cause widespread...
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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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06Nov

Will My Marriage Work?

Susan Quilliam

couple, love, marriage, men, women

Therapists

Relationship expert Susan Quilliam on how to know whether your relationship is strong enough for marriage
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05Nov

From Patient to Psychiatric Nurse

Joan Inglis

career, self

Mind

Psychiatric patient to psychiatric nurse, Joan Inglis shares her personal journey
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