by James Webb | May 18, 2018 | Clinical Psychology, High Performance, Mental Health, News and Events, Psychological Resilience
A red-headed boy, stepping a slow and sombre march through the grey streets, behind a carriage. It’s an early image that is seared into the memory of many us – a 12-year old Prince Harry, walking respectfully behind his mother’s coffin. A walk that would be too...
by James Webb | Apr 12, 2018 | Clinical Psychology, Coaching Psychology, Corporate Psychology, High Performance, Mental Health, Psychological Resilience
While stress has become widely acknowledged as an issue in modern society, it has also developed a bad reputation. Stress is seen as something that is negative, that we need to reduce or even eliminate. However, wanting to get rid of stress is problematic in itself...
by James Webb | Mar 20, 2018 | Clinical Psychology, Corporate Psychology, High Performance, News and Events, Psychological Resilience
Today is the United Nations International Day of Happiness. But what actually is ‘happiness’, and why, when there is so much else to worry about, should we care? It can seem a fleeting concept, this idea of happiness, and one that doesn’t automatically spring to mind...
by James Webb | Jan 4, 2018 | Clinical Psychology, Coaching Psychology, Corporate Psychology, High Performance, Mental Health, News and Events, Psychological Resilience
Did you know? With an annual epidemic of failed New Year Resolutions, it’s time to make one that will stick. Out of 2,000 British adults surveyed, 63 % failed to achieve their New Year Resolutions1. A staggering 43% failed to even make it past the first month. How are...
by James Webb | Nov 23, 2017 | Clinical Psychology, Coaching Psychology, Corporate Psychology, High Performance, Mental Health, Psychological Resilience
Cortisol. It’s a hormone in our body that is often called the ‘currency of stress’. When we are stressed, a complex system responds to it. This system helps us get out of danger with our fight or flight response, optimising our chances of surviving. And part of this...
by James Webb | Nov 15, 2017 | Clinical Psychology, Mental Health, News and Events, Psychological Resilience
For those of you who watch Game of Thrones, you will already know that ‘Winter is coming’, as the characters have been saying it for seasons (of the television variety, as well as the of the calendar kind…) Christmas lights are up in the streets, and gifts are proudly...
by James Webb | Oct 17, 2017 | Clinical Psychology, Coaching Psychology, Corporate Psychology, High Performance, Mental Health, News and Events, Psychological Resilience
Days like these … You get to work, and the printer is out of ink. The coffee pot is empty, and the wheel on your chair is squeaking. There was a power surge, and so all of the files that you had been working on the day before have been saved in that strange, recovery...
by James Webb | Oct 3, 2017 | Clinical Psychology, Coaching Psychology, Corporate Psychology, High Performance, Mental Health
Conversations about mental health are starting. Many people are aware that, at times, we all need a bit of support in this area. And while it’s a bigger problem for some people, obviously, it’s not really that big a problem on the whole. Right? What do you...
