Balanced People Blogs
At Balanced People we believe in being open about what we do. As part of that we publish regular, helpful Blog posts about looking after your mental wellbeing, CBT and counselling, and anything else we can think of that might be useful!
Blogs
Managing Stress around heavy workloads
Stress can be incredibly destructive. Heavy workloads and not enough time impact our mental and physical health. This resource uses evidence based...
Supporting a distressed employee/colleague
It can be difficult to know how best to support a colleague who is distressed. We are programmed to try and cheer them up or fix their problems,...
Dealing with angry people so it doesn’t affect your mental wellbeing.
When you have to encounter aggressive and angry people at work, it can be very difficult emotionally. Discover some tips to manage angry people but...
Managing Imposter Syndrome
If you regularly think that you’re a fraud, someone is going to find out that you aren’t capable, or that what you do must be easy as you can do it,...
Protecting your mental health when dealing with safeguarding issues
Working with safeguarding issues, particularly involving children, can take a toll on your mental health. Learn why that is and how to support your...
Positively managing criticism
No this doesn’t mean "yay I’ve been criticised!" This means learning to review criticism and either acknowledge it, or reject it, AND make sure it...
What is your “Vagus Nerve” and why is it so important to mental wellbeing?
Your vagus nerve is instrumental in helping your body and mind relax and heal. Learn where it is, how it works, and how you can stimulate it to...
Should I talk about my mental health on LinkedIn or Social Media?
A recent study of job applicants showed that writing about their experiences of anxiety and depression on LinkedIn negatively affected the evaluator’s impression of their work personality traits – that they had reduced emotional stability and conscientiousness but no effect on their work performance ability. It also found that then discussing the mental health experiences with the job applicants enhanced their opinion of job emotional stability, but not conscientiousness.
How effective is CBT Self Help?
Many people feel that they need some form of support for their mental health but, for a variety of reasons, they don’t want to speak to a professional face to face. So they may look at self-help. There are a wide range of self-help sources for mental health from books, YouTube videos, and online programmes such as Balanced People. So is self-help as good as it is seeing someone one-to-one?
Finding your identity/purpose
As well as staying physiologically healthy, we also need to stay psychologically healthy too. One of the keys for good mental wellbeing is having a...