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Bridget Jelley
Winter Wellbeing 101

Keeping our minds resilient and strong is important no matter the time of year, but in the winter months, especially as our days grow shorter and the sun slants lower in the sky, we need to put in more effort.

Blogs
Bridget Jelley
Did you say 'feedback'?

I asked a group of individuals in a performance session recently, what comes to mind when they think about feedback.

stress

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How to Work through Worry

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How to Work through Worry

Worrying can impact our mental health at work significantly, and has been the subject of sage advice for centuries.

Inspirational quotes about improving your mental health by simply ‘not worrying’ are easy to find, but much more difficult to put into practise.

Can you control worrying by simply choosing not to worry? And if so, how?

In this blog we will explain in simple terms what worry is, how you can control worrying, and how you can work and live your life despite having things to worry about.

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How Can We Control Work-Related Stress?

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How Can We Control Work-Related Stress?

Stress: so ubiquitous, the idea of preventing it altogether might seem a bit like trying to hold back an incoming tide.

But stress doesn’t need to be an inevitable part of life, and it definitely doesn’t need to be an inevitable part of work.

How can employers control work-related stress?

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Can’t Handle The Jandal: Stress and Burnout - what’s the difference?

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Can’t Handle The Jandal: Stress and Burnout - what’s the difference?

Burnout: the imagery in that word is evocative, and perhaps one reason why the term has become popular. Why? Because the picture that burnout conjures is so very much like the experience of it.

Burned out individuals keep going, like flames across a landscape, until they run out of fuel entirely and have absolutely nothing left to give. Not one spark remains. They are quite literally ‘burned out.’

How can we tell the difference, why does it matter, and what can we do about it?

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How to Face Your Fears and Manage Anxiety

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How to Face Your Fears and Manage Anxiety

A couple of years ago, I tried out for the fire service.

Facing down the entry to a confined-space maze designed to test my response to claustrophobic conditions, I realised that I had spent far too much time focusing on my running speed and pull-up ability and nowhere near enough time practising the mental skills I would need to control my fear response and manage anxiety under stress.

I failed.

The good news is that you don’t need to be prepping to face down burning buildings to benefit from facing your fears or managing anxiety.