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What is your “Vagus Nerve” and why is it so important to mental wellbeing?

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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?

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Talking about mental health on LinkedIn or social media - is it a yes or a no? Ultimately it’s a personal choice and, as with most things, there are...

How effective is CBT Self Help?

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How Effective is CBT Self-Help? Would I be better seeing a therapist/counsellor? Many people feel that they need some form of support for their...

Finding your identity/purpose

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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...

Why Self-Help CBT (like Balanced People) may not be for you.

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Balanced People resources are based on CBT – Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. The theory around CBT is that our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours...

6 ways to ensure your NY Resolutions will be successful

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The New Year is here and many people think about making resolutions/New Year goals. I’m not a massive fan of making January any harder, as it’s such...

Mental Health when you’re neurodivergent.

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Statistically speaking, being neurodivergent means you’re more likely to suffer from a mental health condition. This resource will look at why that...

Dealing with bereavement/grief

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Bereavement is the process of losing someone, grief is the process you go through after the loss. Learn how to support yourself, or someone else,...

Stop People Pleasing

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People pleasers are nice people, but often prioritise others over themselves and struggle to set boundaries. By taking small steps you can learn how...

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?