Whether you’re a busy parent, an aspiring professional, someone that struggles with insomnia, stress, anxiety, or maybe a combination of the three, sleep is an integral part of your mental and physical well-being. Did you know that creating a nighttime routine can actually be more conducive to going to sleep …
How Concepts Like Hygge And Ikigai Will Improve Your Life
There has been an ongoing trend of finding solutions to modern problems through formerly obscure lifestyle concepts and practices from different countries throughout the world. Out of these emerging concepts, two tend to stand out the most: the Japanese concept of ikigai and the Danish concept of hygge (hew-guh) – …
How Sleep Affects Your Mind – Guest Blog Post by Kristina Lalovic from Colossal Sleep
Sleep is an important part of our lives. Not only do we need it to recover and function throughout the day, but it is also a crucial part of our health. When we’re feeling sick, our bodies need more sleep than usual. Similarly, when we don’t sleep enough our immune …
Developmental Trauma – Guest Blog Post by Kim Atherton
Following on from the GetPsyched video on trauma and its treatments and some recent training I’ve done myself, I wanted to offer a written piece on developmental trauma. Developmental trauma occurs early on in a child’s life and can have detrimental consequences for children and their families. Developmental trauma can …
Supporting Those Diagnosed With Borderline Personality Disorder – Guest Blog Post By Jenny Robertson
Over the course of my career, I have often worked with clients diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). How to understand and help those affected by depression, anxiety and other mental health concerns is often shared and discussed on social media, but there tends to be far less information circulated …
Emotional Intelligence, A Perspective & Guide For Teachers – Guest Blog Post by Gobiner Gill
Performance levels can increase with the use of a positive mindset as it facilitates direction and focus. The relationship between mental preparation and positive psychology becomes important and there is evidence of its use in business, education and sport. It should, therefore, come as no surprise that the use of …
How Blog Psychology Contributes To Discussions In Mental Health – Guest Blog Post by Dennis Relojo-Howell, Founder of Psychreg
What role does blogging play in psychology? How does blog psychology contribute to mental health? Dennis Relojo from Psychreg gives us insight.
Understanding Medical Unclassified Symptoms (MUS), Does Mental Health Play A Role? – Guest Blog Post By Rosie Allden
What exactly are Medical Unclassified Symptoms? There is still much we dont know, in this post we take a look at the role of mental health and other factors
The Realities Of PTSD – Guest Blog Post By Rosie Allden
PTSD is a commonly known mental health disorder. However, do we really know what PTSD and do we know the different types of PTSD?
A Life of Learning, Lessons, Writing and Psychology – An Article by Jodie Fleming
Jodie gives us an incredible article about her experiences in learning, writing, life and psychology. Both powerful and moving.
Self-Care, What It Is & Why It Is So Important – A Guest Blog Post By Megan Hemming
Self-care Self-care has definitely had a moment in 2018. Social media platforms are regularly awash with images of people wearing facemasks, eating chocolate or reading a book in a candlelit nook, paired with the #self-care hashtag. Taking small moments like this to take stock and recharge, has become something many …
Asking For Help In Today’s World, The Need, Challenges & Barriers – Guest Blog Post By Megan Hemming
Asking for help As children, we look to others as we learn and understand the world around us. The people in our lives help us navigate things we come across that are new and often hard to make sense of, from learning to tieing our shoelaces to first fall outs …