Over the past months I have been exploring Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) as a therapeutic approach and here are some tools that you may like to implement in your everyday life. One is the idea of the ‘struggle switch.’ When we encounter a feeling such as anxiety, anger or sadness, our first [...]
So as most of you will know, it’s been a very important week in the Happynesshub calendar - Mental Health Awareness Week! The theme of MHAW 2021 has been ‘Nature’; which for many of us has been so very relevant over this past year, when we’ve been kept apart from our usual entertainments [...]
This week, Tim D drew my attention to a little gem that featured on the evening news. A recent study conducted by Travelodge has indicated that the pandemic has in fact increased levels of kindness! Could you imagine nicer news? (Perhaps, maybe an end to the pandemic I hear you cry!). The areas [...]
Amidst this Bow-Wowza busy-ness and snowy sunshine, there persists the uncertainty of these strange times. And I know I’m not alone in finding myself frequently looking around and asking the question on everyone’s lips: ‘what’s going to happen, and when?!’. As ever, the Happynesshub tools are of great comfort to me - in [...]
For this week’s little offering Hubbers, I decided to ask my fab colleagues which tools from the 21-Days to Happiness toolkit they have been using this week to get them through any lockdown blues... Thank you fabulous team for your words and inspirations. And thanks to you dear Hubbers for your emails, messages, kindness [...]
As I sit and write today’s first official ‘Saturday email’ - a continuum of the recently completed Happynesshub at Home: Day by Day package, I am reflecting on the past 7 days and the prominence of it being Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK. As I’m sure many of you might agree, [...]
Hello hello! My warmest welcome from the Happynesshub. Whether you discovered us through a family member, friend, online or elsewhere, we hope that in the variety of resources we have to offer, something somewhere will be of support to your mind, body and heart. This is my gift to you. And so it gives [...]
It's been a surreal few weeks to say the least. If you have a young family your routine has gone from frantically rushing around to get everyone ready to ultimate lockdown and home schooling. My husband and I are lucky enough to be able to work from home and we were [...]
After months and months of being poorly on and off, large bouts of time spent in bed and isolated at home, and feeling challenged daily both mentally and physically, I finally started to emerge a few weeks ago feeling stronger, fitter and healthier than I had in a good, long time. [...]
There was a time when the world and I had a disconnect (it still happens every now and again and I’m sure that this is something we all feel at certain times, to a greater or lesser extent). At its worst, mine occurred following many years of physical pain causing me [...]
