Parents Mental Health Day this year will be on January 27th but what is it? The theme this year for Stem4’s Parent Mental Health Day is #BuildFamilyResilience, focusing on how parents and carers can successfully adapt to challenging life situations, and deal with their own mental health, while navigating their family through difficult times. Nowadays, the…
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How My iPhone 12 Has Help My Wellness Journey Over The Last 12 Months
Read moreThe last two years of our lives have without a doubt been the strangest and toughest that any of us have experienced ever. This is due to the Covid pandemic that swept across the world. Of course many people lost their lives because of coronavirus, however as we are nearing the end of the pandemic…
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Looking After Our Children’s Mental Health
Read moreThe last two years has been the toughest two years of not only our lives but more importantly our children’s lives. The disruption and upheaval they have experienced must under no circumstances be underestimated. That’s because the effect of school closures, lockdowns and the covid pandemic on our children’s mental health is something that could…
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[AD] Changes I’m Making This Year To Improve My Health And Well-being
Read moreThe last couple of years have definitely been very tough on all of us as we experienced a global pandemic that swept across the world at lightening speed. If you are anything like me then you would have questioned whether you were looking after your health and well-being properly. The question I ask myself is…
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Time To Get On Your Bike For BikeWeek UK 30th May-5th June
Read moreDo you have a hobby that helps you relax? I do. Cycling is my way of clearing my mind. Having this freedom to clear my mind helps to relieve the daily stresses of my life. There is without doubt a massive health benefit, both physically and mentally that riding a bike can help with. It’s…
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[AD] When Intimacy Issues Can Cause Problems In A Relationship
Read moreAll relationships at different times will be challenging and will suffer many ups and downs throughout the years that you are with your chosen partner for life. One of the biggest issues that relationships have is intimacy problems. It could be that one of you will struggle to move from the emotional level of your…
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Mental Health For Dads: Time To Speak Up
Read moreIf you are struggling with anxiety because the coronavirus has made you take a step back, slow down, and reflect on life a little more, you might be keen to get yourself out of the rut. It can be challenging to feel more positive each day as we are bombarded with even more Covid stats.…
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Ways to Cope with Emotional Distress
Read moreAttitudes towards mental health have come a long way in recent years. Not so long ago, it was almost taboo to talk about things like anxiety, depression, and emotional distress, but in the modern era, these subjects are surfacing more and more often, with countless people finally feeling safe and comfortable in talking about the…
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4 Mental Health Tips for Busy Parents
Read moreAs any parent knows, prioritising your mental health is challenging when you’re busy wrangling energetic kids and checking off your never-ending “to-do” list. But devoting time to self-care is an important facet of a balanced life. Taking care of yourself helps you stay patient and calm even when your kids are driving you bonkers and…
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10 Simple Things you can do Today to Improve Your Mental Wellbeing
Read moreMental illness not only involves depression and anxiety, but also your psychological and emotional health like how you deal with everyday challenges, what you feel about yourself, and other people, as well as your ability to deal with emotions. Before you seek treatment or professional help, there are simple things you can do to improve…
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The Connection Between Your Mental State and Physical Pain
Read moreIf you live a long life, then hopefully, you will be healthy for that whole time. If you ever do get sick or hurt, it will be relatively minor. However, that doesn’t happen for everyone. Some people become ill, or they sustain an injury, and they never fully recover from it. They’re in physical pain, whether…
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[AD] How To Know When Have You Entered A ReBound Relationship
Read moreA relationship between two people will always start with you both of you wanting to spend every second of every day of the year together. This is perfectly normal, but sadly not all relationships will stand the test of time and many of them will fail for a number of reasons. Relationships or marriages are…
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[AD] 5 Signs That Your Relationship is Lacking Respect
Read moreEvery marriage or long term relationship will at some point hit a sticky patch, and that could be sign that there is a more deep seated problem within the relationship that most likely both of you have been ignoring for many years. We are of course living through a global pandemic which has seen countries…
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[AD] How Gardening Can Help Your Mental Health
Read moreRegular readers of my blog will know that I have had a long standing issue with my mental health. In particular I’ve suffered from some severe bouts of depression throughout my life. It has always been difficult to find ways to lift my mood and simply just be able to cope with life on a…
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