Jul 16, 2019 | anxiety, Bullying, children, choice, Depression, mental health, support, teamwork
More photos from last week’s Think Tank event in Swansea. The topic for debate was the issues faced by young people in Wales experiencing mental ill health. A huge privilege to be part of a discussion with experienced, passionate people who turned up with one...
Jul 15, 2019 | anxiety, children, coaching, Depression, mental health, resilient, sports, teamwork
I recently wrote a post saying that 1 in 10 children live with a diagnosable mental health condition in the UK. A government research paper published new figures in Feb 19 of 1 in 8 children, this epidemic is not showing signs of slowing down or stopping any time...
Jul 14, 2019 | boundaries, choice, coaching, leader, mental health, resilient
We collect beliefs about life, relationships, ourselves, people, family, etc throughout our life but did you know that we can often have a belief but act in a contradicting way without knowing it?It doesn’t mean the belief is wrong, we may not have acknowledged...
Jul 13, 2019 | choice, coaching, mental health, support, teamwork
Have we lost person to person connectivity so much so that we’ve lost the ability to treat people like people? I have so many conversations with people living with mental ill health about being treated as their diagnosis that it wasn’t a surprise that it...
Jul 11, 2019 | anxiety, fear, mental health, resilient, support
I have had this ‘low key’ asthma all my life and have been lucky to go as long as four years without any asthma attacks at all. I do not have ‘bad’ asthma, like some suffer from. It doesn’t trouble me day-to-day. But I always carry a pump, my medication for my asthma,...
Jun 30, 2019 | Depression, Emotions, mental health, self esteem
I’ve recently realised what kind of foundation I had developed prior to living with depression, it was a rocky one. I had low self esteem, I compared myself to others, I never felt as good as or good enough, I self punished and self judged, I criticised, I...
