People in the LGBTQ+ community are more likely to struggle with mental illness. When you compound this with the fact that people of colour are also more vulnerable to mental illness due to issues of systemic racism and marginalisation – you can see why people on the [...]
https://youtu.be/rr7IZbrV1OQ PinkNews has events running all throughout Pride Month, click here to see what's on. Pride for All is PinkNews’ online Pride celebration. After the hardships faced by the LGBT+ community, we have shown that we are strongest together. The theme for this year’s [...]
As 70 companies announce a trial of a four-day working week, Imy Brighty-Potts asks experts whether it really would be good for us. In a potentially huge move for work-life balance, more workers in the UK are beginning to have a four-day week, earning 100% pay for [...]
Here For Each Other's Cool Coffee Van set out in early May for the first set of site visits on our Hug-in-a-mug tour. What better way to grace the great outdoors again than to meet our incredible colleagues who have worked so hard in a truly challenging time! Our goal was [...]
June 13 - 19 is International Men's Health Week! It's that time of the year again when we support global efforts to increase awareness of men's health and support men to look after themselves better. This International Men's Health week, we'll be sharing seven podcasts to [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-jFgJpmgLA The theme for this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 is ……… “Loneliness”. Loneliness affects millions of people in the UK every year and has had a huge impact on our mental health during the pandemic. From 9 - 15 May we aim to [...]
Whether it’s taking fruit to work, being polite to rude strangers or taking up skinny-dipping, here’s a century of ways to make life better, with little effort involved … Exercise on a Monday night (nothing fun happens on a Monday night right?) On the fence about a [...]
Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapist Sara Casado and her employing trust have kindly shared a blog and video about how cognitive analytic therapy ideas have been used to help describe and respond to the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on NHS staff. https://youtu.be/sXqQTY1ccUs The above short video was [...]
We are told it is healthy to “Let it go” It’s healthy to let go of past hurt. Resentment. A broken heart. Pain. Anger. Grief. Being used. Being abused. Lied to. Abandoned. Betrayed. Whatever your particular flavour of hurt. “Just let it go, you will feel better,” [...]
Do you struggle to maintain a work/life balance when you’re out of the office? Here’s how to switch off and reclaim your evening. After months of getting used to going into the office again, today marks a return to full-time working from home for people up and down [...]
