Your Mental Wellbeing

16/11/2025

When we respond with curiosity rather than judgement, we reduce tension and expand our perspective

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13/11/2025

In case you need to hear this today on and it may be an unpopular opinion to some, but I believe it's ok to have some healthy boundaries and limits with your kindness.
People often think if you are generally a kind person or if you work in a helping role, that you advocate for kindness to be boundless as a moral ideal but I believe kindness, as well as many other things, requires balance. You can be kind but firm, giving but not over-stretched or taken advantage of. You can prioritise others and also meet your own needs. Your kindness should empower others without requiring you to abandon yourself!
I also believe in being somewhat discerning with our kindness and not necessarily indiscriminate. We all have finite energy, it's ok to prioritise kindness towards those who reciprocate your generosity and not necessarily directing just towards those who demand it or who are most in need. Kindness is a way of taking care of our relationships and social connections which are so important for our general wellbeing.
One might also argue, true genuine kindness comes from a place of authenticity and strength, not borne out of people-pleasing or fears of rejection. While kindness is generally positive, it can become detrimental if it leads to self-neglect, exhaustion, compassion fatigue, or if it enables harmful behavior in others.
What do you think about kindness boundaries and how do you manage them? What does a sustainable balance of giving and self-preservation look like for you? Do you feel you know when to offer your hand and when to keep it to yourself? Could you give more or might you need to allow more kindness for you? 🫶

13/11/2025

Happy World Kindness Day! 🌍🩷

Let’s celebrate by doing one kind act for others; send a message to someone who would appreciate to hear from you, donate to a food bank, see how many compliments you can give today, congratulate someone for an achievement that may go unnoticed or volunteer for a cause you believe in.

There is a strong link between kindness and happiness.

Doing things for others boost our own wellbeing by creating a sense of wellbeing and purpose.

Focusing on kindness can give us perspective on what really matters and help us feel grounded and connected, even in challenging times.

Kindness connects us with others, so it strengthens our social connections and relationships.

Kindness can change our world - it sends positive social ripples as when people receive kindness they are then more likely to pass kindness on to others.

We need kindness right now more than ever.

Let’s send ripples of kindness around the world for World Kindness Day!



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13/11/2025

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12/11/2025

**The Perfect Walk for Mental Wellbeing** 🧠🚶🏼‍♀️🌿 Quick Quick Slow, Quick Quick Slow...like a ballroom dance?... 💃🏼😅
I've been thinking about how we can optimise walks outdoors for physical and mental health! We need a bit of pace & speed for the cardio & endorphin hit, but we also need to slow down in nature for calming the nervous system! Can we alternate & do both? Almost like interval training! I'm testing it out, will report back! 😅

11/11/2025

Op COURAGE is a mental health and wellbeing service developed by veterans, for veterans. It doesn’t matter how long you served for or when you left.

If you find life difficult after leaving the UK Armed Forces, face struggles with mental health, and live in England, Op COURAGE is here to help.

Find out more information, visit www.nhs.uk/opcourage

10/11/2025

Morning All! I'm sensing after my last post (see Guardian article) that there is a bit of an appetite for learning more about Narcissism and I wanted to be clearer myself of the more official criteria for diagnosis when working with clients.
So I have consulted the DSM-5 criteria, (i.e. a handbook used by mental health professionals to diagnose and classify mental health conditions) and I undertook some research of other reliable sources too.
To be officially diagnosed with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, an individual must exhibit 5 or more of the following criteria (beginning by early childhood and present in a variety of contexts) as illustrated in this graphic below! ⬇️
But let's help shift the stigma of the disorder, we might all present with some narcissistic traits (if not sufficient for clinical diagnosis). I know I crave admiration/validation at times, maybe I can even be a bit arrogant or entitled for what I feel I deserve at others, but this possibly comes from deeper insecurities as opposed to true superior beliefs! In fact, there may be fine lines & even similarities between how healthy self-worth/self-love/self-confidence and narcissism presents.
Do you agree with this list? Anything missing you feel should be added? Are a lot of things making sense now about your relationships or even yourself? 😅

08/11/2025

This a very interesting article about Narcissism, another word we throw around a lot without sufficient understanding. I am seeing an increase in traits and Narcissistic Personality Disorder in more recent mental health presentations, it can be a debilitating disorder and also presents as a vulnerable (covert) type. This article brings a helpful understanding and new perspective around the condition I believe!
“A narcissist is attempting to believe that they are the best because that is the coping mechanism for feeling like: ‘I am the worst,’” he says. “There’s something missing with me and I need to be in this fantasy world where I’m the hero because maybe in my childhood I was the villain and now I need to overcompensate for that.”

Few psychiatric conditions are as stigmatised or as misunderstood as narcissistic personality disorder. Here’s how it can damage careers and relationships – even before prejudice takes its toll

06/11/2025

Walking home earlier taken about 5 pm 😍🍁🌃...we are losing light fast now these evenings...but I noticed today how beautiful the night & twilight can be too, especially with the supermoon brightening the skies! 🌕
So even if we are not getting as much of a Vitamin D & Serotonin mood boost via sunlight, we might still get an emotional lift through a dopamine hit in the experience of awe in the evenings - nighttime awe! 😮 Do you ever get a sense of wonder, amazement or astonishment about the night? 🌌 What do you admire and appreciate about it compared to the daytime?

05/11/2025

You can’t always avoid stress completely, but you can take steps to better manage it.

This , share our stress tips or add your own in the comments.

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04/11/2025

This may be a controversial one this evening during the theme this year being around 'Optimising Employee Wellbeing through Strategic Stress Management'. I hear a lot of people say their work is stressing them out and I am sure this is the case in some less healthy and unsupportive workplaces with unrealistic demands, targets, too little capacity and poor leadership & management.

But if you are stressed and burning out in a workplace that has a supportive working culture and is reasonable with workload and expectations etc., could it be that your approach to your work is causing part of your stress? Maybe you take on too much unnecessarily, maybe you have unrealistic expectations of yourself, do you struggle to strike a work/like balance and manage stress? Could something else be causing your stress?

It may be important to identify the actual cause of the stress so we can work towards solutions that target the root of the issue to prevent risk of & recovery from chronic stress & burnout!

04/11/2025

"As Stress Awareness Week 2025 begins, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is reminding employers that work-related stress is one of the leading causes of ill health at work – and that preventing it is a legal duty, not just a ‘nice-to-have’." https://press.hse.gov.uk/2025/11/03/stress-awareness-week-2025-time-to-act-on-work-related-stress/