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World Mental Health Awareness day
Today is World Mental Health Awareness day. The theme this year is workplace mental health. I work with many people where workplace...
Louise Coughlin
Oct 10, 20241 min read
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Rejuvenate Mental Wellness Through Innovative Tactics
I have a guest writer on the blog this week...Cheryl Conklin from https://wellnesscentral.info/ Cheryl considers a variety of ways to...
Louise Coughlin
Oct 24, 20233 min read
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World Mental Health Day
Today is World Mental Health day. The theme for this year is 'Mental health is a universal human right'. The World Federation for Mental...
Louise Coughlin
Oct 10, 20232 min read
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Mental Health Awareness week
This year the focus of mental health awareness week is anxiety. I see a lot of people who struggle with anxiety. Anxiety takes many...
Louise Coughlin
May 16, 20232 min read
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A little bit of 'me time'
I'm writing this blog on holiday. Not because I can't switch off from work quite the opposite...but because I've switched off I actually...
Louise Coughlin
Aug 3, 20222 min read
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Men's mental health week
As men's mental health week draws to a close I saw this image. I think it speaks for itself so end of blog...
Louise Coughlin
Jun 23, 20221 min read
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Be kind to yourself, so you can be kind to others
I’ve been a bit quiet on the blog front; the last month has been mega busy with personal and work commitments, a period of sickness that...
Louise Coughlin
Mar 10, 20222 min read
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Sometimes a little bit of what you don't fancy is good for you!
I remember one January when I was swimming at my local pool someone asked me what I had on my head. No I wasn't sporting some weird...
Louise Coughlin
Jan 24, 20222 min read
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Lots of good things
Last month my blog made me sad to write. I reflected on my grief and it helped me process what had happened and life without my friend. I...
Louise Coughlin
Dec 11, 20213 min read
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Me time and mindfulness
I am passionate about what I do but I am also not going to look a gift horse in the mouth...when a supervision meeting finished early...
Louise Coughlin
Jul 21, 20212 min read
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Lockdown delight
I've been feeling a bit unmotivated this last week. While I have forced myself to exercise I've not enjoyed it. Today I set off with the...
Louise Coughlin
Feb 24, 20211 min read
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Lockdown take 3
One month today those dreaded words 'England is going into lockdown, stay at home do not go out unless it is essential'. It was with a...
Louise Coughlin
Feb 4, 20211 min read
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Be kind to yourself
Today I received a gorgeous bunch of flowers in the post. It was from a Forensic Psychologist in Training who had just submitted her...
Louise Coughlin
Dec 12, 20201 min read
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Lean into loneliness
A former client got in touch with me this weekend. It was quite timely as I had only just been thinking of her the other day and...
Louise Coughlin
Nov 16, 20201 min read
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Hello Yellow
Today is hello yellow day to raise awareness of mental health for young minds (https://youngminds.org.uk). I have seen lots of people...
Louise Coughlin
Oct 9, 20201 min read
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Mental health matters: for businesses
The federation of small businesses is putting on a free event for business owners regarding mental health issues. Covid has put a strain...
Louise Coughlin
Aug 10, 20201 min read
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A lovely message for little people
Here is a really well presented animation for children about COVID. I'm always on a lookout for ways to help people with their mental...
Louise Coughlin
Jul 18, 20201 min read
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Staying psychologically safe during lock down
Many people are suffering right now. Not everyone get the mental health support that they need. Here are a couple of resources that may...
Louise Coughlin
Jun 29, 20201 min read
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