Make yourself resilient to worry

No one is too beautiful and successful to be immune to worry. It doesn’t matter how many accolades you receive - you are still going to...

Emotional intelligence in social work

Social workers, like nurses and healthcare workers, have high-stress jobs which can take a mental and physical toll. The rate of work related stress and...

Making your time count

Time is precious, and once it is gone, we don’t get it back. It is the only thing that money cannot buy. The ability to...

Anger

Background Anger is a physiological and psychological response to external pressures stresses and frustration. Anger can make us snappy, irritable or argumentative. We all get...

Pain can haunt you

Never underestimate the impact of emotional and psychological factors on human wellbeing. We know that the mind and the body are intimately related and someone’s...

Emotional Health

We all feel the complete range of emotions throughout our lives, depending on what is happening around us and to us. Our ability to feel...

Mind over Matter?

When we think of healthcare, I expect the majority of us would think of broken arms, twisted ankles, or the dreaded winter flu that threatens...

Tap water for that feel good factor

In Scotland, scientists are looking into claims that adding lithium to water supplies could help our mental wellbeing. Lithium occurs naturally in many water sources...