For the majority of my life, I have been in education
I didn’t particularly love school, in fact I couldn’t wait to leave for university, where I spent 5 years of my life doing my undergraduate degree and then starting one masters degree only to realise it wasn’t for me and then completing another masters degree the following year. A lot of the time you can’t […]
Plans on hold – learning, educating and keeping your brain engaged
Currently the whole world feels like it’s on pause and if anyone is like me they’re a little anxious about things they can’t complete or plans they had that they now have no idea when are going to happen. For example education, courses and for me moving so that I no longer have to house […]
Learning to experiment with sound
Did you know, our Trainer Aja is also a Noise Musician (expression of noise in a musical context). She has put together a video demonstrating how you can play with any household object and learn, through software, to adjust sounds and make music! For Learning Week, why not have a go at starting to experiment […]
Being Mindful – Where to Start
I wanted to share what I have learnt from my own experience with mindfulness with you. Mainly that you are probably already naturally doing many things mindfully during your day to look after yourself and that’s a good place to start, take note, feel positive and confident about those things. Mindfulness often starts with learning […]
Resilience
When I consider the idea of young people and mental health, and how resilience can be such a powerful coping strategy, I wonder what resilience really means in terms of wellbeing for a generation of young people bombarded by not only internal factors (the things directly inside their unique world and experiencing) but the effects […]
Reading a book: how novel! Sometimes we all struggle to find a little catharsis!
As a therapist and the CEO of Harmless often people look to me to tell them what to do, both personally and professionally. This happens both implicitly and explicitly; a request for help, some advice on a pertinent issue, a hand to hold in a crisis… but often in the kind of role that I […]
Some of my favourite things
This week’s theme at Harmless is Positive escapism and coping mechanisms, so I thought I’d talk about the things that I find help me. The things that provide a welcome distraction and a chance to get out of your head and ‘thinking’ mode and get lost in an experience – to be in the moment. […]
Grief, lockdown and coping mechanisms – a few words from one of our clients.
Since I lost my husband to suicide last October, after 52 years of marriage, it was really hard to imagine life without him after being such a big part of my life. Regular support from the Tomorrow Project has been a big help and I thank them from the bottom of my heart. Life since […]
Positive escapism and coping mechanisms
For a while now it seems like everything is about COVID-19. It’s still the main topic in the news and the thing everyone is talking about. So it’s very easy to be so focused on COVID-19 and worrying for our loved ones physical health and our own physical health, that we may not be focusing […]
Creativity and parenting
Collective creativity has been flourishing locally. The outside fencing of the primary school has been transformed into a lovely sea of colour. We have been making pom poms and rainbows at home to add to the collection (when on our daily exercise walk!). Symbolising hope and connectedness which is much needed at the moment. Beautiful […]