On Wellbeing

Feeling stuck is a common experience for many of us.  We know we do not want this situation or pattern of behaviour anymore, but we can’t seem to shift it.   Dr Heather Mckee helps us to reframe the feeling of stuck and to make positive mental health a habit.  She uses examples from mindfulness, movement, relationships as well as examples of gratitude, acts of kindness and how we can look forward...

This podcast will help you to understand either as a people manager or a colleague how we can come together to make our workplaces ‘safe spaces’.  Psychological safety is critical for a workplace to thrive.  Dr Nicola Stenberg explains what psychological safety is and how we can positively change it.  It’s also increasingly important with the rising number of individuals struggling with their ment...

There is a new science around kindness and compassion, and how transformative it is for mental health.  In this podcast, Carey Davis Munro discusses the benefits of being kind and how this research around the ‘helpers high’ demonstrates the positive benefits for the self in being kind and helpful to others.   Carey discusses random acts of kindness and how these differ from kindness itself.   The...

If we want to eat more healthily, start an exercise routine that you commit to, or any other positive ‘lifestyle change, your focus should be on ‘habits’ rather than motivation or willpower.  Dr Heather McKee, global behaviour change expert unpacks how building a habit is the most important thing we can do when it comes to changing our behaviour.    She describes the practical ways in which we bui...

Dr Lisa Gatenby registered nutritionist offers a real-world view on the chaos and confusion which surrounds what and how we eat.  This podcast is full of scientifically backed advice and support to take the stress and guilt out of our relationship with food. Lisa discusses the way in which we over complicate food with an excessive amount of food information and social media misinformation.  She de...

Paula is an experienced BPS Chartered Psychologist with 18 years’ experience of developing and delivering health behaviour change interventions.  Paula’s vast experience of working with different people to build exercise as a long lasting habit has created a wealth of effective tricks, tools and techniques which she discusses in this podcast.  So many of us find it virtually impossible to create a...

Dr Louise Lambert, employee wellbeing specialist and positive psychologist explores the issue of materialism, the high valuation of material goods.  Louise unpicks the way in which our focus on buying thing negatively impacts our mental health.  Louise describes the consistent inverse relationship between materialism and wellbeing; such that as materialism increases, wellbeing decreases. It’s more...

Listen to Carey as she explains how fear and anxiety, common emotions that overwhelm so many of us are detrimental to our health.   Carey describes how these powerful emotions extract energy from us and alter our daily experiences, mood and reactions.  This podcast helps us to understand how we can begin to cognitively understand, detect and manage fear and anxiety to cope more effectively with da...

Maya Raichoora, expert in mental fitness and TEDx speaker describes the power of visualisation to reverse a medical condition in her own life.  Maya discusses how the power of imagination led to an empowered journey to take charge of her own health.  Maya illustrates the way our own thoughts and beliefs limit us and describes how we can begin to use tools and techniques to imagine ourselves into a...

In this interesting conversation Dr Louise Lambert, employee wellbeing specialist and positive psychologist describes how art and history can support positive mental health.  Louise discusses how art evokes emotion.  This is the role of art.  Within this there is room for contemplation and reflection. We can examine what we feel and why. Art and culture forces us into emotion regulation: we feel i...

A chiropractor for over 20 years, Rachel Wilkinson has an intuitive understanding of the way the body reflects so much of our mental health and trauma. In this podcast she describes how so many problems relating to our back and body have a root in mental health. Rachel illustrates with real -life example clients who present with pain and dysfunction with no apparent cause. When unpacked these almo...

Why your anxiety is serving a purpose and how you can reframe it".  Content descriptor: Jonny Ward aka 'The Anxious Firefighter' brings a fresh perspective on anxiety.  A station manager in the Fire and Rescue Service in the North of England he describes his own raw and traumatic journey with anxiety across his career.  He explains how he learnt to manage his anxious thoughts with a combination of...

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