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No Time for a Full Workout? Try Exercise Snacking Instead
Welcome to the world of exercise snacking, where even small, quick movements throughout the day can add up to big benefits for your physical and mental health.
Enhancing Employee Wellness
In today’s fast-paced business environment, employee wellness has become a critical focus for UK businesses.
How Mirroring Enhances Trust in Communication
Have you ever noticed yourself unconsciously copying someone’s posture or using the same phrases they do? That’s called mirroring.
Unpacking the Psychology of Self-Serving Bias
Self-serving bias is all about protecting our self-esteem. As humans, we love to feel good about ourselves, and this bias helps us do just that.
Building Self-Efficacy for Lasting Success
Self-efficacy is more than just a belief in your ability to perform a task—it’s a powerful driver behind motivation, persistence, and resilience.
Attention Control: How to Break the Procrastination Cycle
If you’ve ever found yourself losing focus during an important task, only to feel more anxious as deadlines loom, you’re not alone.
Unmasking Gaslighting: The Impact of Emotional Manipulation
aslighting is a subtle and harmful form of emotional manipulation where an individual is made to question their reality, memory, or perception.
Assertiveness Training, Communicate with Confidence
Assertiveness training enhances communication by establishing clear boundaries and promoting self-expression.
The Transformative Power of Behavioral Activation
Behavioural activation is an approach commonly used in cognitive-behavioural therapy to help individuals break the cycle of low mood.
Understanding Emotional Bids
At their core, emotional bids are the small, everyday ways we say, I’m here, and I want to connect with you. These bids can take many forms.
Setting Boundaries: The Key to Healthy Relationships
Boundaries are the limits we establish to protect our emotional, mental, and physical well-being. They are an essential part of maintaining healthy relationships.
How Being “Too Polite” Can Harm Your Relationships
Courtesy bias arises when we prioritise maintaining harmony and avoiding confrontation over expressing our true thoughts and feelings.
How Practising Gratitude Improves Mental Health
Gratitude is a powerful emotion that has the potential to transform how we experience life and the benefits to mental health.
September in Review: Key Mental Health Developments
For those navigating the pressures of life, exercise offers a valuable outlet for managing the demands of life.
Exercise your way to better Mental Health
For those navigating the pressures of life, exercise offers a valuable outlet for managing the demands of life.
Sleep Hygiene: The Secret to Better Mental Wellbeing
Practising good sleep hygiene means making choices throughout the day that promote restful sleep at night.
Breaking Free from Rumination
Rumination can keep you stuck in negative thought patterns, increase feelings of anxiety, and even contribute to depression.
Understanding the impact of Catastrophising:
Catastrophising is a cognitive distortion where individuals predict disastrous outcomes from everyday situations, leading to anxiety and underachievement
Unmasking Negative Automatic Thoughts
Negative Automatic Thoughts (NATs) can be the real villains in our lives, leading to destructive behaviours and emotions.
Nurturing Relationships: The Key to Emotional Wellbeing
As humans, we are biologically hardwired for connection. From friends to colleagues, our relationships form a crucial part of our lives.
Understanding Physical Detection
Ever notice how your body sometimes has a mind of its own? Your physical and mental health are more interconnected than you might think.