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Practicing gratitude is a simple wellbeing practice that can have a big impact on your mental and physical health. In the introductory blog of our week about how practicing gratitude can help foster resilience, you will learn about the benefits of practicing gratitude and discover some creative inspiration for how to begin.
We all have days where we comfort eat for one reason or another. When going in the food cupboard becomes our response to our emotions is when emotional eating forms an unhealthy cycle which doesn’t allow us to deal with the emotion. In this blog, you will learn how to break the cycle by staying with the emotions and teaching your body new behaviours.
Good food = good mood is one of those memes that pops up in lots of places. And as we browse the images attached to this our mouth can start to water. Why? Because of something called the gut-brain connection. In today’s blog we explore the powerful impact of the gut-brain connection on our anxiety and stress levels and think about why what we put in our bodies can have a direct impact on our mood.
For this week’s Shhh… we’re returning to the archives to look at a reflection we first shared in April 2020, right at the start of the first lockdown.
How can we find hope emerging from winter just like the little seeds and colours of Spring come up all around us at this time of year.
The sense of season change seems to have brought hope and light as we look towards the lifting of restrictions. Why does a season change speak to us? What are the ideas and pictures behind Spring that can help us in our wellbeing?
For this week’s Shhh… we’re returning to the archives to look at a reflection we first shared in July 2020.
We wanted to look at purpose. How do we encourage and enable that sense of who we are and what we feel motivated to be or do? What good can I bring to the world? What motivates me in my life?
Rumi said "be a lamp, a lifeboat or a ladder.”
A lamp shining light to guide others.
A lifeboat, providing safety and rescue for those in trouble.
A ladder, giving people to ability to climb higher.
Why one would you like to be today?
“School Staff are incredible.”
In this article Andy Freeman shares about our School Staff Wellbeing Box and why we’re committed to providing meaningful and helpful support for the wellbeing of School Staff across the UK.
Exercise is a fundamental competency of resilience. Yet over-exercising can drive your body into stress state that leads to increased stress and a rise in inflammation. So how do you exercise well? In today’s blog you will learn why exercise is important for fostering resilience and how listening to your body can help you to exercise well.
