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Is your boss making you ill?
Management style is a serious factor when it comes to mental health in the workplace. Do you find your boss to be somewhat lacking in the subtle arts of social skills? Is their managerial style characterised by telling you what to do rather than discussing that with you? Do they give you a task but …
Read MoreThe Power of Positive
There is a lot of talk at the moment about positive emotions. Since so much of our attention goes on negative emotions this might make sense to redress the balance. But is there more to it than that? Are there more scientific reasons for encouraging people to be generous, appreciative, curious, forgiving, empathic? And what …
Read MoreLetting Go
Autumn is the season of letting go. A time to declutter both in your inner landscape and in your environment. Nature is preparing us for hibernation and the winter. We need to be free of the things that no longer serve us, so that we can conserve our energies for the things that do. In …
Read MoreMental Health in the Workplace
Most of us spend at least a third of our daily lives at work. For some people, work takes even larger chunks of our time, as the pressure of longer hours, fears of cutbacks and redundancies, and demands for greater productivity, pile mounting expectation on their heads. The results? Overwhelm, exhaustion, burnout , addictions, physical …
Read MoreLightning Strikes
I remember the moment when I realised how suitcases got on to the conveyor belt in the arrivals hall at airports. Up to age of ten this was a complete mystery to me. At one end of the journey, our baggage disappeared, after much ticketing and labelling, through some thick downward hanging flaps. Next thing …
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