Wellbeing and Stress Management

People talk about “stress” as if it’s only one thing and as if it’s only ever bad. But the stress response is what helps us achieve our greatest successes. When we understand that properly, we’re halfway to managing it well and avoiding the negatives.

I explain how stress affects us – physically, mentally and cognitively – and reveal how it can affect our brain bandwidth, leading to loss of performance. Once we start to see the workings of our mind and body, we can really start to take control and build great wellbeing.

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Wellbeing and stress management

#37 of 52 WAYS to WELL-BEING: Running

If you’re not a runner and either don’t want to or can’t, please don’t turn away. This is a story about discovering I could do

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Back to school offer – classroom teaching materials

Going back to school at the end of the long school holiday can be tough on staff and students. I have something to help! (Apologies

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#36 of 52 WAYS to WELL-BEING – Talk to the face

Social media give us endless opportunities to communicate easily with a wide range of people. We can have conversations via text, email, Facebook, What’s App

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#34 and #35 of 52 WAYS to WELL-BEING: gratitude and praise

How does it make you feel if someone properly thanks you for something? Or someone praises you? The feelings from each of these are slightly

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#30 #31 #32 #33 52 WAYS to WELL-BEING

All schools will have broken up for the summer holiday by tomorrow and many already have. Hooray! I recommend you go outside to a green

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#29 52 WAYS to WELL-BEING: Have a hobby

Having a hobby brings all sorts of benefits. It taps into FOUR of the eight elements of FLOURISH, which Positively Teenage is built around. FLOURISH

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