Top 5 Tips on Handling Stress During the Pandemic The Covid-19 pandemic has been an extremely stressful time for all of us, from stay-at-home parents to tech entrepreneurs like Monzo founder Tom Blomfield, who recently left the bank amid increasing pressure on his mental wellbeing. This is a stark reminder of the impact the Covid-19…
How to Prevent Stress From Keeping You From Work There was a reported 145% increase in the amount of stress-related absences in 2019. With such an increase pre-Covid-19, businesses can only imagine the amount of stress their workers feel through the pandemic. Employees across the UK face worries over working from home, losing their jobs,…
How to Control Back to Office Stresses As lockdown eases and more people are allowed back into the office, you might see yourself entering the workplace soon. Perhaps you are already aware of the date and are dreading the back to work stresses. Teams may have gotten smaller with Covid-19 restrictions and concerns, or maybe…
Top Tips for Parents Who Need to De-Stress Life is stressful, but it seems like this is turned up a notch when we have kids. As much as we love them, our kids can be a handful, and finding time for ourselves is hard. Sometimes, it’s work which can give us anxiety and stress, which…
How to Overcome Your Competitiveness at Work Perhaps you want to be the leader on the next project or have the boss recognise your hard work. Or maybe there’s just somebody on your team who rubs you up the wrong way. No matter your reason for feeling competitive, you need to shut down these instincts…
3 Ways to Manage Debt-Related Stress The pressures of Christmas can elicit money worries in all of us, but for some, they suffer from these stresses all year round. Mortgages, for instance, are a form of debt, but most of us keep up with our mortgage payments and see them as a way of keeping…
The Problems with Wanting to Fit In When we start a new school, often we are faced with the pressure to fit in with the other kids. We feel this need to be one of the ‘popular’ people and be higher on the social ladder. Not everyone feels this pressure or desire, but those who…
The Back to School Pressure and How to Handle It Whether you are starting high school, college or university this September, we can all feel the pressure to succeed. Sometimes we feel like society expects specific achievements from us, or maybe our parents demand the high grades that we’ve always been achieving and they expect…
How To Improve Your Employees Mental Health In the past, a person’s mental health has been looked past a little too often. But, nowadays, we see more companies looking after their workers, schools considering the mental health of their students and teachers, and even government campaigns on the subject. If your employees suffer from mental…
How To Survive a Breakdown Breakdowns (usually referred to as nervous or mental breakdowns) are caused by several factors, including past trauma, stress, overwhelming emotions or mental illnesses. They can have a severe impact on our mental health if we ignore them, and the symptoms can overcome us and make daily life challenging. But a…