If you have already scrolled through any social media platform or read the headlines this morning you will be fully aware today is Blue Monday, allegedly THE most depressing day of the year. It comes on the third Monday of January every year so...
Bhakti Sharma is an Indian Open water swimmer. At aged 25, Sharma became the first Asian woman and the youngest in the world to set the World Record in open swimming in Antarctic waters by swimming 1.4 miles in 41.14 minutes, at a temperature of...
Dame Julie Andrews is a National Treasure: the leading lady from Broadway, the ground breaking performer on stage and screen in Victor/Victoria, and known for her iconic characters particularly as Maria in The Sound of Music and the lead role in Mary Poppins. So, it was very refreshing to hear...
If we have had a poor night’s sleep, we can struggle to concentrate at work, make mistakes, have poorer exam or test results, and our response times can be slower. Insomnia problems are medically proven to have a significant effect on our mental and physical health, and...
Join our October BookFest to gain invaluable conversation skills, discover the five pillars to wake up, and know "It's OK" as over fifty public figures share their experiences on dealing with their mental health. How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide by Peter Boghossian and James...
Every day we seem to have a new political headline around the ominous date of Brexit. The number of Cabinet Ministers and MPs who have resigned, changed party, or their long-held values is mind boggling. But it is also worrying because of the impact on...
In 1943, Abraham Maslow, one of the foremost researchers in psychology, published his paper A Theory of Motivation in which he divided human needs into D (Deficit) Needs and B (Being) Needs. The D Needs are the categories when the need is missing and we require it...
"Life is the sum of all your choices." - Albert Camus When you are on a social media site or app, do you click to the suggested images and accounts to follow? Do you scroll through endless similar images, worded tweets, repeated regrams, retweets, and reblogs and wonder...
“This bad inner Chatter. We all know it has the power to overthrow gut instinct, shout us down when we are faced with fear and talk us out of new adventures – yet few of us have a grip on it.” - Fearne Cotton, Quiet: Silencing the...
"Marriage still ain’t equal, y’all. It ain’t equal. I tell women that whole ‘you can have it all’—mmm, nope, not at the same time, that’s a lie. And it’s not always enough to lean in, because that s**t doesn’t work all the time.” - Michelle Obama,...