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Mental Health Awareness Week highlights need for workplace mental health priority

Mental Health Awareness Week highlights the need for mental health to be prioritised not only personally, but in the workplace. Mental Health issues can have an enormous cost in many ways. The incalculable emotional cost affects not only those suffering from mental...

McLaren: Positive Pressure in the Pit Lane

Like so many companies, McLaren felt the full force of Covid across their F1 team with restrictions preventing them from performing as one large, unified team. Divided into covid secure bubbles of just 3 -4 team members, they had to adapt quickly to a new way of...

Celebrating World Sleep – How to use light to best advantage to encourage better sleep routines

Our body’s sleep system is very sensitive and depends upon the 24-hour day cycle of day and night. Our brain produces more melatonin when it’s dark and less when it’s light. Melatonin is essentially our ‘sleepy hormone’. Therefore to ensure that we feel alert in the...

Counter Burnout in the New World of Work – Perform, Thrive and Survive with Dr Rob Archer

Countering burnout in the new world of work by applying the principles of elite sport is a strategy that Dr Rob Archer, Director of Cognacity has identified, to help reinvigorate performance for so many of our clients. Dr Rob Archer firmly advocates: “We don’t rise to...

How To Build A High Performance Routine with Dr Rob Archer

Hybrid working appears to be here to stay, with at least 2/3 of employers expected to offer working from home in the future. Whilst this brings clear benefits for many, it still represents a significant shift in ways of working which will take some adapting to....

The ACT Approach to Handling Anxiety Like a Human Being

Everyone is feeling some anxiety right now and frankly, why wouldn’t we be? But it’s worth remembering that humans are constantly anxious. Here are five reasons why, followed by five ACT-based techniques to handle anxiety like a human being. Five Reasons Why We're...

Looking After Your Winter Wellbeing

We were delighted this month to host a webinar by our Lifestyle Psychiatry expert and Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr Judith Mohring, who reviewed the data around mental health in the pandemic, and shared practical tips to overcome the winter blues. This free webinar...

Financial Wellbeing

Money is the biggest cause of stress for employed adults - far outweighing stress caused by career, health or relationships. Financial stress significantly increases the risk of mental health issues. Fear, envy and shame are the most common negative emotions at the...

Make marginal gains to increasing your energy

When looking at how to improve our energy in the most depressing month of the year, there are tangible behaviours we can look at that make a significant impact on our subjective feeling of being energised. These top three factors make a significant difference to our...

Preparing for the long-term impact of COVID-19 “bad” deaths

The corona virus pandemic has been one of the deadliest and rapidly developing global health crises since the Spanish Flu. Even with the research and medical advances since 1918, the human race has very much been caught off guard with its global and deadly spread. As...