In the UK (and probably elsewhere), May is mental health awareness month 2025. Today I am going to outline some brief tips that you might not have considered to help you with your mental health. Forget generic run of the…
Late at night (or in the early hours of the morning), sometimes I just can’t sleep. And I know I’m not alone in this! Restlessness and sleepless nights are awful and take a huge toll on your mental health. So,…
Anxiety has always been a problem for me, but after spending months after months indoors due to the COVID-19 lockdown, my travel anxiety has become much, much worse. My comfort zone is indoors, so the thought of travelling can cause…
It’s overcast as I write this, not that it matters much when you’ve spent half an hour with YouTube star Adriene (and Benji) doing yoga. That’s the real beauty and reward of spending just 10 minutes rolling around on the…
I have only experienced one anxiety-induced panic attack in my life so far, and I’m so grateful that I haven’t had more. But general anxiety is something I deal with a lot. Mostly, it’s travel anxiety. It’s the thought of…
If you have it, the world is your oyster, but if you don’t, then the world can be a pretty unpleasant and scary place to be. Especially as low self esteem tends to lead to problematic relationships and poor self…
It can seem impossible to boost mood with depression, it can often feel as though nothing is worthwhile and that there is nothing that can be done to lift our moods. Some of us turn to drugs to combat it…
I have previously spoken about the un-helpfulness of the self-help movement and how using philosophies such as Stoicism in the face of the unexpected – job loss in my case, can be of more benefit to us as individuals than…