Mental health and wellbeing blog

Reasons to Stay Alive book review

Matt Haig’s ‘Reasons To Stay Alive’ is as much about personal resilience and self-growth as it is about mental health.

A simple way to improve your emotional resilience

He’s modest about it, but Simon Wheatcroft knows all about emotional resilience, or more broadly its core concept of ‘bouncing back’.

How depression led this author on a lifetime's adventure

Author Tim Grayburn took the unconventional route to manage his clinical depression, quitting his job to tour Australia and perform a play.

The best career advice from Microsoft's CEO

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella offers some some simple yet effective career advice.

How hypnotherapy helped me beat cancer

Fiction writer Ellie Holmes reveals how she used hypnotherapy after being diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma, a rare blood cancer.

How do you change careers?

From shooting beer adverts to teaching physics, Tom Mumford discusses how he changed careers– and how you can too.

The inspiring blind runner reimagining endurance

Blind ultramarathon runner, technology consultant and motivational speaker Simon Wheatcroft continues to redefine what’s possible.

Shut up and listen -- how to help people help themselves

You can rarely solve anyone else’s problems but by listening and asking questions you can help them to help themselves.

You won't retire at 65, but that's OK

With the retirement age continuing to rise in the UK, Andrew Cruickshank recounts his experience of working into old age.

Stop feeding your Internet addiction

We have reached the age of information overload. Now is the time to disconnect in order to improve our social health.

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