It’s that time of year when the leaves are changing colour, the nights are drawing in and there’s a nip in the air. Inevitably these seasonal changes also bring the loud unexpected sounds of fireworks. I remember being told from an early age to keep pets at home on bonfire night and to look after … Read more
This month marks International Week of Happiness at Work an initiative which aims to draw attention to Occupational Wellbeing, giving us an opportunity to reflect on how happy we are at work and what we can do to increase this. A recent survey by the Office for National Statistics revealed that 44% of UK Workers … Read more
Since March 2020 words and phrases which we rarely thought of or had never even heard before started to become common place. It started with ‘Covid-19’, ‘pandemic’ and ‘lockdown’. A few months later others started to emerge such as ‘Post-Covid-19 Syndrome’, ‘long Covid’ and ‘long haulers’. I’m going to stick with ‘Post-Covid-19 Syndrome’ in this … Read more
I often prepare my blogs in advance and this particular one was written last year whilst I was in a ‘winter wellness’ mindset. At that time I had no idea what 2020 had in store for us and the unique challenges we would face this winter with the Covid-19 pandemic and the necessary restrictions on … Read more
November has arrived and all of a sudden there are lots of moustachioed men walking around – what’s going on? This month has been hijacked by Movember a fantastic campaign to improve mens health, especially in the areas of mental health, suicide prevention, prostate cancer and testicular cancer. Rather than letting my moustache grow, I … Read more