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turnoveranewleaf
May 8, 20214 min read
How to prevent your gut from discombobulating under stress?
Most people these days have heard about gut bacteria but scientists know a lot more now just how much these other organisms play a part...
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turnoveranewleaf
Apr 11, 20211 min read
Resources to go with Building Resilience and Wellbeing workshop
Use this to record whether you achieved some wellbeing activities the day before
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turnoveranewleaf
Mar 14, 20213 min read
How to love your brain: What does your Brightminds taste like?
Improve your diet using the nmemonic Bright Minds and guard against getting dementia in your later years
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turnoveranewleaf
Feb 7, 20213 min read
Havening: an empowering alternative to improving emotional wellbeing!
One of the creators of Havening Techniques (HT), Dr Ronald A. Ruden, refers to Havening as a new and revolutionary way to heal emotional...
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turnoveranewleaf
Jan 3, 202115 min read
Do you believe you can positively influence your resilience and wellbeing?
This article aims to enrich the conversations we are having about stress, resilience and wellbeing. It leaves you with a tool that can...
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turnoveranewleaf
Dec 31, 20205 min read
Project YOU 2021
The new year is upon us and we all hopeful that it will be very different to 2020! This week is a great time to start planning your 2021...
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turnoveranewleaf
Nov 8, 20201 min read
How the Brain encodes traumatic memories
For members to watch and to help learn how trauma is encoded.
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turnoveranewleaf
Oct 10, 20205 min read
Topsy Turvy World Mental Health Day (5 min read and downloadable tool)
Perhaps World Mental Health Day has never been so important. I write with a desire to celebrate mental wellbeing in the world today yet I...
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turnoveranewleaf
Aug 14, 20202 min read
Weathering the storm
Storms come and go. We can let the wind guide the ship or we can manage the sail to our intended destination. BASW have written a great...
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turnoveranewleaf
Jun 13, 20204 min read
Eustress vs distress - which is lockdown driving in you?
What is causing this thing we call 'stress' and what do we mean when we refer to 'stress'? There are 3 different types of stress. ...
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turnoveranewleaf
May 11, 20204 min read
FITNESS: days challenge -Rualking a Marathon Month for Mind and Mental Health Awareness week
Ahead of mental health awareness week, week beginning 18th May, I’ve decide I’m going to rualk* a marathon over this next month in aid of...
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turnoveranewleaf
Apr 26, 20206 min read
LIFESTYLE PILLARS: Is obesity an underlying risk?
As a person with obesity, and associated health conditions, what can I do to build resilience, to boost my immune system and reduce my...
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turnoveranewleaf
Mar 13, 20202 min read
Calling all former social workers...
I'm really pleased to be a part of the so called 'war effort' in bringing social workers back. The social workers who had left the...
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turnoveranewleaf
Jan 31, 20202 min read
Why we should do short bursts of High Intensity exercise whilst in lockdown in or outside the home.
In a first study of its kind University Hospital Bonn, in Germany, studied 25 athletes using functional neuroimaging found that...
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turnoveranewleaf
Dec 5, 20192 min read
DOES DIVORCE AND OTHER STRESSFUL LIFE EVENTS CAUSE ILL HEALTH?
You may have heard the story of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitts high profile divorce. Some time ago in 2017 Vanity Fair magazine wrote an...
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turnoveranewleaf
Nov 17, 20192 min read
ACTION: Brain Training
There are six different brain waves are measured each serving a different function. A normal waking adult tends to be in heightened state...
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turnoveranewleaf
Nov 17, 20193 min read
NUTRITION: On a vegan mission
This week my and my family went Vegan, well mostly! My wife watched a program called Game Changers on Netflix and then What The Health...
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turnoveranewleaf
Nov 12, 20194 min read
FLOURISH: Spiritual Wellbeing or Human Needs?
Some people actively embrace the term spiritual, whilst some people are indifferent and others are actively against it. We do some...
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turnoveranewleaf
Oct 17, 20192 min read
Get ahead of the curve, START Brain Training
This article is a part 2 following the article called a 'New Approach to Self Care' posted 30th September 19. There are six different...
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turnoveranewleaf
Sep 30, 201911 min read
A New Approach to Self Care: for Resilience, Wellbeing and Peak Performance
Resilience is a hot topic right now in Social Work due to the profession being known for high levels of stress and social workers are...
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