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How Cold Water Therapy Helps To Calm You You may have come across Wim Hof’s television programme; "Freeze The Fear" or seen people dipping into icy lakes on social media and wondered how cold water could possibly help with stress. As it turns out, the key lies in the...

A hopeful look at healthy brain ageing As our population ages, more of us are likely to have personal experience of dementia through family or friends. Around a third of people aged 85 and over are affected by this progressive decline in memory and function. It is a...

How Digital Habits Are Changing The Way We Communicate Are we losing the art of conversation? How many times have you sat in a café, looked around, and noticed how many people are focused on their mobile phones, even when they are with friends or family? This growing...

The Importance Of Human Connection: What Really Makes Us Happy? In a world that increasingly values fame, success, and social media likes, it’s easy to assume that wealth and recognition are the ultimate goals. A recent study found that 80% of Millennials set their...

Understanding Cortisol: Do you ever feel wired but exhausted, like your brain won't switch off even when your body is crying out for rest? That could be cortisol at work. Cortisol is a hormone released by the adrenal glands in response to stress. It plays a key role...

Getting into the flow means immersing yourself so completely in an activity that time seems to disappear, distractions fade, and productivity soars. Have you ever been so absorbed in something that hours passed in what felt like minutes? That’s the magic of getting...

What is Moral Injury? Wikipedia defines moral injury as: "A moral injury is an injury to an individual's moral conscience and values resulting from an act of perceived moral transgression, producing profound feelings of guilt or shame, moral disorientation, and...

Change, I think the majority of us start off the year with the intention of making changes to our lifestyle. We may do well to begin with and maintain new habits for weeks or even a few months, but it can be difficult to make changes stick in the long-term. A survey...

Coping with stress how do we do it? Why do people react differently to stress? The threat may be the same, but the response is different, as we have seen during the Coronavirus pandemic. Some people were able to see it as an opportunity, while others became fearful...

Life transitions and periods of change are is something we all go through. They may be planned or change may come at us expectedly. Some changes are welcome, some are unwelcome. Either way, they can bring a welter of emotions – we may be excited at positive change, or...