I was recently asked to write a module on resilience for clients of a healthy lifestyle service provider. We had previously put together modules on anxiety, depression and stress management. The feedback that we were getting from some team members delivering the modules was that they found the subjects rather complex and difficult to discussContinue reading “Wellbeing for Real Life: what is resilience and how do we build it?”
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The Weekly Wellbeing Round-Up #18: a weekend of wellbeing in Valencia.
When I was a medical student our favourite lecturer was Dr Andy Sparrow. Not because of his subject (which was anatomy) but because at random points throughout his slides he would show us pictures of his holidays – a bit of light relief in the midst of gruesome detail. I am currently at around 30,000Continue reading “The Weekly Wellbeing Round-Up #18: a weekend of wellbeing in Valencia.”
The Weekly Wellbeing Round-Up #15: making a plan to improve your wellbeing.
When I first became a GP, I decided that many of my patients who needed to make lifestyle changes also had undiagnosed conditions that resulted in problems with their understanding, memory and planning processes. There must be something wrong with them, so my reasoning went, because they left my consulting room chastened by me aboutContinue reading “The Weekly Wellbeing Round-Up #15: making a plan to improve your wellbeing.”
The Weekly Wellbeing Round-Up #13: digital wellbeing.
Any doctor reading this who had a pound for every patient who has uttered the words “I think I need an MOT, doc” would probably be reading this from the deck of their yacht, floating on the Mediterranean. Usually when this is said, it’s in the context of a physical and sometimes interrelated mental healthContinue reading “The Weekly Wellbeing Round-Up #13: digital wellbeing.”
The Weekly Wellbeing Round-Up # 7
Good morning and welcome to the latest edition of the Weekly Wellbeing Round Up! Today I thought I would kick things off with news about things that don’t work. The Health Supplements Don’t Work As you may be aware, it is recommended in the UK that we take a daily over the counter dose ofContinue reading “The Weekly Wellbeing Round-Up # 7”
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