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Health & Wellbeing

“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”

For so many years the focus in both training and treatment has been on managing the problems that exist rather than preventing their occurrence.

This has very much changed since my initial training.

The science of happiness and well-being complemented by the neurosciences is one of the most interesting areas of mental health for me. We now know that there are habits and behaviours that can build resilience and be protective of mental health and wellbeing.

Wellbeing and mental health is viewed more from a perspective of balance, thrown out of balance when overwhelmed or stressed.

Just as exercise and diet are vital to a healthy body, social connectedness, finding meaning and purpose in what you do is important to mental health and well being.

The Job of Life – 70’s 80′

The reality is older people are getting smarter richer and healthier every day Ageing is no longer about sitting in a rocking chair Older people skydive, travel, cycle and get tattoos, have a love life, even new partners So don't consign yourself, if you are over 70, or anyone

Real men do cry!

“He's crying on the TV about his family situation” In May this year, football striker- Jonathan Walters gave an emotional interview on the Late Late Show I sat on my couch and listened to him speak of how he felt when his mother died and he was a young boy aged eleven He

Aim for Well Being and Happiness

If you don't know where you are going you will likely end up somewhere else Do you look around you and feel others seem to have their life together in a way that you don't Do you wonder how others are contented and you aren't Do you wonder where they get all the energy

Stress is part of life – best learn to spot it and deal with it.

We feel stress build when something changes and that change causes a further demand upon us Stress is accumulative, so pressures you have at home work like an underlay for the pressures you have in work and can result in stress Understanding and managing our own specific

Grief and Loss

Loss and Grief a part of all our lives Grief comes in to all our lives at some point Perhaps we instinctively think of grief as linked to death but in truth it is more correctly linked to loss Loss is something we can experience in many ways It may be loss connected to a

Learn to be willfully Positive! Make it a habit

Learn to be willfully Positive! Make it a habit! Positive psychology is producing a growing scientific basis for understanding positive emotion, engagement and meaning These states are valuable in their own right because they fight depression, engender more life satisfaction