Building Psychological Safety
Ever noticed how the quietest person in the room can drop the biggest idea? Too often, their voices get drowned out. With psychological safety, those ideas don’t just surface, they change the game.
Mental Health
How ‘Mental Wealth’ Can Reduce Absenteeism and Boost Productivity
A lot of us already know about the importance of mental health at work. We’ve heard the stats. We’ve seen the campaigns. Maybe you’ve even taken part in some activities for Mental Health Month – a webinar, a team meditation, a wellness challenge.
The Real Reasons Why Leaders Burn Out
Executives in large organizations are well positioned to achieve significant accomplishments and to enjoy considerable wealth and power. However, while professionals entering the workforce may aspire to one day become senior leaders…
Behavioral Health Disorders: Types, Causes, Symptoms, and Effects
Behavioral health disorders focus on daily habits, actions, and character traits that affect a person’s physical and mental health. They often involve a pattern of aggressive and disruptive actions that lasts longer than six months. They manifest in children, teenagers, and adults.
What Is Behavioral Health and How Does It Differ From Mental Health?
Behavioral health and mental health are often used interchangeably. But they do not mean the same thing. While they both revolve around the mind and its ability to function normally, they are different in definition and types.
A Story of Recovery from Bipolar Disorder
Peter´s seemingly perfect life situation at the time weren’t so perfect at all. The gravity of the whole situation was ‘behind the curtains’ as it were, ‘hidden from plain view’. Hidden from himself too behind a significant amount of denial.
In short, he was living the life he had created, he’d ticked all the boxes but didn’t feel it was him. He felt we was living someone else’s life.
Bipolar Disorder: Different Approaches to Recovery
Bipolar Disorder is when a person experiences mood swings that go from a very excited, energized, and often irritable emotional state to a sad, depressing, and lifeless emotional state in an unexpected time frame.
Find & Unleash Your Voice
Freedom of expression is the right to express those opinions, beliefs, and values without fear of reprisal, oppression, and censorship. However, the challenge for an employer is to balance an employee’s individual right to expression with the organization’s values, rules, and expectations.
Learn To Survive And Thrive Despite Narcissists, Sociopaths And Psychopaths
Psychological Self Defense online course shows you how to spot the different types of manipulators, the signs of manipulation, the ten sneaky strategies they use to pull the wool over your eyes, and the best ways to respond to this manipulation.
Caring For The Carers
In recent times, we’ve seen much more attention paid to the work of health professionals and those in caring roles. Along with that, we’ve also seen an increased awareness of the importance of the mental health and mental wellbeing of those health professionals themselves. After all….
The real dangers of Work-From-Home burnout and how to properly tackle them
Work-from-home (WFH) burnout is a real, serious, and increasingly common risk for remote workers across the globe. Learn the signs of WFH burnout, how to combat it, and where employers/virtual managers and employees can reach out for help.
Social Isolation: How the Coronavirus is Impacting Workers Worldwide?
Dr. Greg Iacono was 46 when he decided that his career as a chiropractor was, sadly, unfulfilling, and started to contemplate a new career path. “As an admitted extrovert, I really loved being around people all day, including my staff and patients. At the end of…
Keeping our KIDS healthy and strong
Right now, parents are either working from home amongst all the other family members and chores that are waiting to be done, or in the worst case one or both parents lost their jobs and entrepreneurs are struggling to keep their business…
4 Steps to navigate grief and loss amidst COVID-19
As COVID-19 has become a household word across the world over the last month, many of us find ourselves in uncertain territory. We are grieving the familiar bedrock of our lives like office time, schedules, in-person meetings, and social activities. With children home from school, self-quarantines in place in much of the world, and restricted travel we are all navigating a new normal.
Mental Health Expert Warns: 8 types of manager you could avoid for a mentally healthy workplace
Bad managers can cause mental health issues in their workplace, and through bad management they can also worsen issues staff may be experiencing. If we can better equip businesses and managers to understand and deal with mental health issues in the workplace, we can save lives – many lives.
How to Support Mental Health in the Workplace
As an employer, there’s a lot that you can do to support your employees’ mental health. Try some of the things that the world’s top companies are doing to support workers’ mental health. You’ll see what a difference these changes can make to your organization and your employees’ well-being.
Social Media and Mental Health: Solutions For Workplaces
Given social media is a leading cause of depression and anxiety today, problems which cost the global economy approximately $ 1 trillion yearly in lost productivity (according to the WHO), the importance of developing strategies for workplace mental health can’t be overlooked
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is an Anxiety disorder that is triggered as a result of some serious trauma. The Diagnostic Statistic Manual version V states that “Post traumatic Stress Disorder is characterized by the reexperiencing of an extremely traumatic event accompanied by symptoms of increased arousal and by avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma. (DSM-VI)”
First Aid for Mental Health Problems – W.A.R.M.
So you think someone you know maybe experiencing a mental health problem? Then the big question is ‘so what do I do? How do I respond now?
There’s no perfect thing that will always ‘work’ 100% of the time, because people are people, and we are all different, but there are definitely some clear principles, that are considered best practice when responding to someone who might be becoming unwell.
5 More Subtle Signs of Workplace Bullying
Unfortunately, workplace bullying often goes under the radar. Why? First of all, it’s not always as obvious as the overt name-calling, shoving, and teasing that we have come to associate with made-for-TV bullies. Secondly, bullying can be embarrassing: a team member…