A bit of a different post today, I thought I would take the chance to talk a little bit about nature, the world around us and the important impact it has on our mental and physical wellbeing. Bees play a crucial role in maintaining the balance of our natural world. Without them, many plants, including those that produce the food we eat, would struggle to survive. World Bee Day, celebrated every year on May 20th, shines a spotlight on these tiny but mighty pollinators. This da

May is National Share a Story Month. This years theme is Changing the world one book at a time. Have you ever thought about your life as a story? Maybe a thriller, a fairy tale, or a kids comic? It turns out this really is a thing, narrative therapy uses story telling to help you open up to your experiences, to find the words to describe the impact experiences have had on you, to work out your boundaries and to find the way forward that works for you. What Is Narrative Thera

Burnout is a thing, but how do we recognise when it is upon us, or where it has taken over? What is Burnout? Burnout can be caused by stress, but it isn't the same. Stress tends to be short lived reaction that although difficult, we can work with and work through. Burnout impacts your functioning, leaving you with a sense of detachment (from yourself and/or others), demotivation and hopelessness that there is no opportunity for your situation to change. It feels like there

Stress is a word we use in every conversation, it can refer to experiences from feeling stressed because we can't find our car keys in the morning and are going to be late al the way through to complex post traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD). What we find stressful, how we process it and the impact it has on our behaviours is different for each and every person. Reactive Stress Reactive or Acute stress is a reaction to an 'in the moment' or short term experience. It is whe