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Playing It Safe On And Offline
Halloween has rolled around too fast for me, not enough time to get with the programme, at least that is my excuse. The truth be known I have never been a big Halloween fan but growing up, I loved a...
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Giving The Brain Its Props
It has been quite an insightful experience for me to do our podcast On Social Anxiety—such a common disorder but perhaps just as misunderstood or perhaps even more than health anxiety, which I could...
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Keeping Anxiety At Bay
Anxiety has a way of getting up close and personal during the busiest of times. And let’s face it, the holiday season is ripe for the picking. With all the latest Christmas ads launching in the UK this...
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Tuning Into Your Thoughts For A Good News Story
After more years than I care to admit to, I finally made the connection between food and physical health, though it took a few intolerances to convince me. Yet I still haven’t quite gotten my head...
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Taking the High Road To Tackle Poor Body Image
First things first. I’d like to wish all of our American followers and listeners a very Happy Thanksgiving today. As I celebrate with family, I have been reflecting on body image and our review of the...
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I Am a Sufferer of the Tired Teen Epidemic
This week I’m please to have Shannon Amos, The Untamed Optimist, share her blog on Students Overworking. It’s such a fitting subject for todays’s teens with exams galore and high participation in...
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Embracing You: The Spirit of Identity
Now is the time to embrace your identity but it isn’t always easy to do so. To this end, I am delighted to adapt and repost this blog from August last year on the tough topic. Check it out along with...
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The Future Is Bright, The Future Is Female
I am thrill to share this space with Charlotte Harding and Bex Bastable, two journalists living and working in Sussex and Hampshire with a passion for sharing stories and empowering the next generation...
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Exciting Beginnings: Embracing Yourself for a Happy New Year
This morning while waiting for a prescription I overheard an elderly woman ask with reticence, “Is it really 2020?” The middle aged female pharmacist smiled and nodded and touched the lady’s hand...
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Drawing on Unknown Character Strengths
Here we are the last day of January 2020 and the year feels weighty and heavy in so many ways already, with huge challenges the world over from Australia to China and change in the UK and tragedy in...
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Talking About Mental Health: The Brave Thing To Do
Though I initially wondered if the campaign team for Children’s Mental Health Week meant ‘Find your courage’ instead of ‘Find your brave’ for this year’s theme (my brain was stuck on nouns instead of...
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Keeping It Safe On The Internet
For this week’s blog, I have adapted our October 24, 2019 entry, as it is still as relevant now as it was then and with so much emphasis on staying safe on the internet this week, it makes sense to...
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What You Say To Yourself Really Matters
Self-talk has a major impact on who we are and also on who we become, whether the talk is good or bad. What we say to ourselves has a lot to do with our self-esteem, our self-confidence. This truth...
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Dealing With Anxiety On All Levels
So, what is making you anxious nowadays? If you are anything like me, you might be thinking where shall I start? There is a mountain of worries on a world scale and sometimes equally as many on a...
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Women Shaping The Course of History
Anytime is a great time to celebrate the women in our lives, however, women are in the spotlight in March, not only with the celebration of International Women’s Day, but also Women’s History Month in...
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Finding My Voice
I am delighted to have guest blogger Zaqiya Cajee, the founder of SwopItUp, the clothing swop initiative in schools that is sweeping the country and giving teens a wonderful mechanism to do something...
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The ESP Of Coping During Unprecedented Anxiety
Anxiety has been a big deal for sometime now in our world but with the uncertainty we are facing due to COVID-19, anxiety has hit new heights and become a pandemic unto itself. This week, I have drawn...
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Keeping Mentally Fit During the Worst of Times
Week two of doing a video blog. As the pressure continues to mount on countries and people around the world, UIO podcast continues, along side many others, to explore ways to keep safe and healthy....
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Staying Connected With Friends During a Crisis
It has been nearly six months since the Coronavirus started making its way around the globe. Wherever we are in the world, we have either been forced to watch from a far as if watching a surreal movie...
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Social Media Etiquette During Loss
Nowadays almost everyone on the planet has had a brush with loss. Though the biggest loss of all is human life and we have been overwhelmed with grief on that one. Still the loss of a job, the freedom...
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