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Alcoholism and our relationship with alcohol
🥂How often do you see this sort of meme? It's so common, but the normalising of alcohol use is not conducive to mental health, and makes it very hard for people to stop or reduce their alcohol intake, and really needs to be considered. 🍸I say this from personal...
Why are people ignoring lockdown rules?
If I tell you not to read this, will you do as I say? If not why? Don’t read this to find out… Actually you better had!
Understanding the blues; Mental health & the difficult conversation.
I talk a lot about mental health & the difficult conversation surrounding it , but maybe it is so difficult because we simply can’t find the words – maybe the right words aren’t even around yet!
Mental Health First Aid
As we approach this new year, this new decade in fact, let’s end the stigma around mental health.
#STOPTHESTIGMA
Go Hard or Go Home!
Go Hard or Go Home "Go Hard or Go Home" used to be my mantra. So was "You sleep when you're dead" and "If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much room"! Really, it's not hard to see why I burnt myself out so totally! It's been a long journey to get to...
Kafka and the Travelling Doll
Kafka and the Travelling Doll "Kafka and the travelling doll" is a beautiful story, penned by Jordi Sierra I Fabra, about a fabled encounter by Prague-born author Franz Kafka. The beautiful illustration above is by Isabel Torner. It was said that, one year before...
54321 Technique
54321 Technique. No matter who you are, where you are, or what's happening in the moment, we can all find ourselves suffering from overwhelm, symptoms of anxiety, trauma triggers, or other unwanted emotions or thoughts sometimes. We just need to get our conscious mind...
Holly Butcher’s message:
Holly Butcher's Message: At the age of 27, Holly Butcher died from Ewing's Sarcoma, a rare type of cancer. At 26 she was left contemplating the fragility of life, and she left her parents with a message to post on facebook after her death. In our 20s most of us feel...
Why we criticise & how to change
Roosevelt’s “man in the arena” speech is just as powerful today as in 1910. “It is not the critic who counts… The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.” But why are we so critical?
Re-programme your autopilot.
Do you keep on finding yourself having the same problems with the same people? Are you stuck in a rut and can't find your way out? If you are struggling with situations where ineffective communication is the causal factor, then Rook Interpersonal Skills has a variety...