Mental Health Awareness Week

Over the week, LinkedIn has been lit up with people sharing their personal stories of how anxiety and mental health has impacted their life. We’ve been humbled by the openness and honesty these courageous contributors have shown to raise awareness on subjects that only a few years ago would’ve been buried.

Over the last week we have shared posts on:

👉 Monday: Identifying stressful triggers and managing reactions ‘colourfully’

👉 Tuesday: Mental Health OR Brain Health – an alternative perspective

👉 Wednesday: BEAT it – a practical, in-the-moment technique to manage anxiety and panic attacks

👉 Thursday: How to help someone at work with anxiety

First and foremost, there’s nothing more beneficial than talking to another human being about your thoughts, feelings, memories and current situation. However, engaging in daily practices that support our mental health by reframing thoughts and training our physiology and biology to manage an overload of stress is a very beneficial way of building the foundations.

Over the last few years there’s been a rise in apps that help achieve this goal. They’re accessible, easy to use and can be listened to and watched anywhere, on the train or between meetings, through guided practices, mindfulness and meditation (don’t be put off by that, meditation is something that we can all do without sitting in the lotus position or floating to a place of higher purpose and enlightenment!)