The Stress Bucket

The Stress Bucket

by | Jun 11, 2021 | Everyday Wellbeing

Mental health awareness as a theme has been dominated by reacting to illness. The moves made to normalise experiences of ill health and campaign for better treatment need to continue but also be joined by some more proactive interventions. If we are to be truly aware...
The Stress Bucket

Lessons From Depression

by | Apr 11, 2021 | Personal Perspectives

I last took anti depressant medication in 2018. With the passing of time, there is a temptation to avoid thinking about the illness. Especially as it affected me for at least eleven years, in varying degrees of severity and ways it presented. However, there has been...
The Stress Bucket

Workout To Help Out

by | Jan 18, 2021 | Everyday Wellbeing

Lockdown in the UK is setting us challenges to keep committed to the ways to wellbeing and other routes to good mental health. Image from www.signals.org.uk Whilst opportunities to connect are largely restricted to online methods, there is great potential to maximise...
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Barriers To Listening

by | Jan 4, 2021 | Everyday Wellbeing

Listening. For something that is done every day, I was taken aback by how bad I can be at it. It has made me think that for every person encouraged to speak there needs to be a competent listener. My understanding of the barriers we can all have to listening properly...
Eight Years On

Eight Years On

by | Dec 14, 2020 | Personal Perspectives

Post-Christmas 2011, amongst friends watching the darts at my flat, things seemed to have evened out. He was relaxed, laughing with us all and trying to divert the conversation back to cricket. I imagine other people have moments like that where, for perhaps just a...