Everybody’s been there – that gnawing anxiety that won’t go away when your workload feels like it’s way more than you can handle. The good news is that you’re not alone. You’re overwhelmed, and that’s normal. Here’s the bad news: prolonged anxiety caused by workplace overwhelm not only reduces productivity, but can also lead to…
It’s National Stress Awareness Month. As part of our continuing support for providing the information, people need about this important subject we made a video with some friends of ours notably, SkillBase First Aid. You can either watch it on one go or as 6 separate segments. Your choice. When we cut them into…
Time to talk day is approaching so we made a video to give what we think of as essential basic for having a healthy Mental Health conversation. Please do not let the still you can see here of Julian Hall looking like a muppet put you off. He is a muppet at times but quite often…
This is prompted by an enquiry we had recently where the possible new client wanted us to stop conflict happening in their team. They felt that their team needed an intervention and maybe a workshop from us at Calm People to stop their team from having conflict. As you may expect, our response was that…
I write this brief note because there has been research into hereditary stress and because it is a common question asked by stressed parents who are worried (double the stress again) that they will pass this on to their children. The answer is more than a simple yes or no. It is yes, no and…
I woke up this morning with that heady feeling that all is well with the world and I am lucky to be alive. Yes, you guessed it, I have got caught up in the story of England’s progress through the world cup. Yet two days ago I was managing my expectations better than Gareth Southgate…
Reading a quote from Colin Montgomery caused me to take to my keyboard and quickly add this addendum to a blog written a few months ago – Click here for the original – Colin has scored a major tournament win in Denmark and feels good. He is quoted as saying ““There were 60 guys starting…
This is a question that I get asked a great deal or the other common question is “does mindfulness work?” The prevalence of this question is down to a number of reasons – Mindfulness is becoming popular and high profile. There are a lot more people qualifying as mindfulness teachers A lot of people are…
Earl Nightingale said, “When you judge others you do not define them, you define yourself.” To judge is to be human. Animals do not judge other animals. Humans are the only species that have that learnt ability to look at another human and pass judgement on them. This is not something that is part of…
In this article we examine issues raised in a recent CIPD & Simply Health survey. My simple perspective (It’s all about me really but it is relevant) Every interaction I have with a group, be it a workshop or a talk to a larger group I always introduce myself in this way…”My name is Julian…