The Key to Kindness? Self-compassion!

If you look up the word ‘kindness’ in the dictionary, you will see a photo of my friend – let’s call her ‘Pauline’. You won’t really. You’ll see a definition along the lines of ‘a quality of being friendly, generous and considerate’. But it should be a photo of ‘Pauline’. We all know a ‘Pauline’.Continue reading “The Key to Kindness? Self-compassion!”

How to Beat the January Blues

In today’s blog we’re going to give you some tips on how to beat the January blues into submission so you can start to feel positive about the year ahead. It’s normal to sometimes feel down during the winter months, but if you don’t actively focus on finding ways to improve your mood you could find yourself entrenched in negative emotions. Let’s take control and stop hiding under the blanket!

How to Feel Optimistic For the New Year

In today’s blog, we’re going to look at how we can establish an optimistic outlook for the year ahead. Maintaining an optimistic outlook has positive benefits for our wellbeing. Research suggests that optimism has a positive influence on both our mental and physical health by helping us cope with our working and social lives and contributing to a longer life span.

How to Cope with Christmas When You Don’t Feel Festive

In today’s blog, I’m going to share a few suggestions to help you overcome and manage your lack of festive cheer. You don’t have to feel festive if you don’t want to but trying these tips should help to put a smile on your face just in time for Santa to arrive.

Reassess Your Habits this Winter

Reassessing your habits and removing damaging patterns from your life can boost your happiness and help you take the first steps toward improving other areas of your life. In today’s blog we’re going to give some examples of negative habits and look at ways to turn them on their head to make them positive.

Human Being not Human Doing

It can become all too easy to spend our time measuring our success by our achievements or reflecting on what we have not done that we forget what it’s like to relax and just enjoy the now. So is it time to put down our to-do lists, give ourselves a break and rediscover the art of ‘human being’ rather than ‘human doing’?