Hidden disabilities are hurting your company and your staff every day, but they could be helping and enhancing. People with hidden disabilities don’t look any different externally to anyone else, but they face discrimination, bullying, ridicule, and isolation on a daily basis.  This affects all areas of their life, their confidence, their comprehension and their communication. Dyslexia is not just difficulty with reading, Dyspraxia is not just being clumsy, Aspergers is not just poor time management and ADHD is not just about sitting still.  Their brains work differently, the educat ..read more

You may have noticed over the last year Managers/Team Leaders/Directors/Owners had to adapt to COVID-19 to keep their businesses, livelihoods and employees working this inevitably led to a hybrid working between home and the office. This may lead to Directors and their colleagues being nervous, some are suffering from anxiety and other conditions due to being separated from family, colleagues and friends, this means it is now more important than ever to manage people’s mental health. By focusing on a healthy mindset is better for your colleagues and it will inevitably improve companies’ effici ..read more

Returning to work is for many a hard struggle, it is causing anxiety, stress, depression and sleepless nights.   I hope you will find this blog instructive, insightful, and illuminating… However, my cold and calculating mind suspects that you will find what follows to be an uncomfortable reality that hits a bit too close to home. It seems like January was just a few days away, rather than half a year ago.  Time passes, we lose track, make excuses and New Year’s resolutions are a dim and distant memory. In the odds-defying occasion that you actually are sticking to them, br ..read more

Are you fed-up at a crossroads? Maybe you’re stuck. Maybe you’re frustrated. Maybe you’re just tired of doing the same thing day after day. If any of these statements are true, you have got to wonder about your future… Ask yourself, what will it be like if you keep things just the way they are? The mental health pandemic is not going away anytime soon. You can’t keep putting off thinking about yourself, making excuses why everyone and everything is more important than you.   As a parent, spouse, team leader or manager, your actions speak louder than words. You know the knowledge of ..read more

162,270 individuals have been abused or harassed with shouting, swearing, racist behavior, told that they do not care, are just a few of what they face on a daily basis from a patient, their relative or the public in their NHS workplace according to the 2020 Staff Survey 28.5% of the 569,440 workers. When nurses see patients, often they are in pain or in a very low time in their life, and often scared, but some seem to think it is OK to lash out verbally and physically at the people trying to help them. One primary care nurse I spoke to recently, said that it is probably about 10-15% of her d ..read more

I recently received an email from an acquaintance asking if she could meet up with me on Zoom for a virtual coffee. Mind you, this was someone who I wasn’t very close to, I knew from previous expriences and comments from others, it was a hard sell call. I simply did not feel comfortable with the idea of being sold to, when I had previously declined and had no interest in her profduct. I had three options: 1. I could say yes because I felt bad saying no, and end up feeling miserable for saying yes; 2. I could say no and maybe feel bad about saying it; or 3. I could say ..read more

Debunking 5 Self-Care Myths Myth #1: Self-care is selfish. When you value other people more than yourself – No baby is born with an inferiority complex these are all developed over time, with experience and knowledge. You have come to see yourself as less valuable than others, you care profoundly about what others think of you and say about you. However, people don’t actually need to be saying these things, you are assuming they are. Nobody to date is telepathic, able to read the thoughts and minds of others, but it is a habit that you have become accustomed to. Myth #2: The effects of self-c ..read more

If you are involved in any way with healthcare, or keyworkers roles, whether professionally, volunteering or home-based, burnout is a reality. There are only two ways to deal with the parallel psychological pandemic, one is to actively invest in preventing it, the other is to wait until you feel so bad that you cannot ignore it anymore, the emotional, psychological and physical pain and anguish will take its toll on you and others around you. Everyone is talking about the COVID vaccine, but that will not protect you against the heartache, tears, anger, self-questioning, isolation and despair ..read more

It’s all about focus and these days, that can be hard to come by. With home-schooling, remote working, or front line working, not being able to see as many people as we might socially like, there’s all manner of distractions – practical, physical, emotional and mental – that can pull on our time and attention. All at the cost of focus. Think about how you focus. What gets you on track? Given the fact that mothers, more often than not, are shouldering the increased responsibilities of caring for children throughout the pandemic, it comes as little surprise that working mothers are s ..read more

86,400 seconds is the time you have each day, “Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.’” —Lao Tzu 2020 will surely be remembered as the most rapidly changing year in our lifetimes. It has taken its toll on a lot of people working in healthcare; your time seems to be constantly taken by work, family, appointments. Your energy is low. You’re tired, overwhelmed and overworked.  Slowly, bad days seem to become the norm; you wake up feeling tired, moody, exhausted before even beginning. At the end of the working day, you come home and every respo ..read more