National Grief Awareness Week (December 2-8) is a time for everyone to raise awareness about grief and the impact it can have. When someone is grieving, there is so often the worry from other people about saying the wrong thing, upsetting them even more, or not knowing what to say at all. The most importantContinue reading “National Grief Awareness Week 2025”
Category Archives: loneliness
Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month
June is Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month. It’s a reminder that, for a lot of men, there is still the expectation to be strong, to not show emotion and not to acknowledge mental health as a legitimate concern.
Realistic resolutions
Happy New Year. I hope you had an enjoyable festive season, however you spent it. By now, you’re probably already a bit tired of seeing ‘new year, new you’ messages piling up in your inbox, from all manner of companies, talking about all manner of goals, aims and ideas. There is of course, nothing wrongContinue reading “Realistic resolutions”
Men’s Mental Health Month
Everybody’s #mentalhealth is of course important all year-round, but as November is Men’s Mental Health Month, I thought it would be a good opportunity to talk about this some more. You’ve probably heard of #Movember and all the crazy facial hair experiments that come with it (I know I’ve been involved myself in the past!)Continue reading “Men’s Mental Health Month”
Get moving for Mental Health Awareness Week
It’s #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek and the theme this year is movement. As I’ve said on my blog posts a number of times in the past, physical activity is good for our mental health, beneficial to our wellbeing and of course, helps us to keep healthy too. This doesn’t mean dusting off your forgotten running shoes or evenContinue reading “Get moving for Mental Health Awareness Week”
Striving to become
Easter of course, has long had an association with rebirth. That’s not just because of the Christian tradition of celebrating Christ’s resurrection which is the origin of the holiday in the British calendar, but also in all the imagery that has become associated with it. Take Easter eggs, for example. With our cynical heads on,Continue reading “Striving to become”
Spending Valentine’s Day alone
February is traditionally a difficult month for a lot of us. Winter has yet to let go, Spring with all its hopefulness, still seems ages away and the relentless push for Valentine’s Day is upon us again. Whether you celebrate this with your spouse or partner or not, it’s hard to ignore the commercial pressureContinue reading “Spending Valentine’s Day alone”
Inside & Outside Counselling 