anxiety at work

Check in on your digital wellbeing

Do you fill small gaps in your day with technology use? Check your phone at traffic lights, while waiting for a lift, or your morning coffee?  Do you feel anxious when you are without your phone or irritable when you can’t read and respond to emails? As a potential mental health [...]

2020-02-24T14:19:01+13:00August 31st, 2018|

How to be Resilient Living with Terrorism

I am back from a working tour of Europe.  My muscles ache, my jaw is clenched tight, shoulders are pinched and my arms feel weighted down. You might ask, “Jacqui, has this got anything to do with the exorbitant load of your luggage, which you heaved lopsided through cobbled streets [...]

2020-02-24T14:19:32+13:00August 1st, 2017|

Good mental health underpins workplace health and safety

The new Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 commenced in April 2016 and it requires employers to recognise employees’ mental health when creating safe workplaces. The increased emphasis on mental health alongside physical health and safety is an important step in ensuring better awareness of, and support for, [...]

2022-08-04T13:29:10+12:00May 6th, 2016|

When does stress become something more serious?

One of the tricky things about stress is that each of us experiences stress differently. This makes it difficult to describe what ‘normal’ stress looks like, and subsequently, to define clearly at what point stress turns into something more serious. In general terms, identifying stress usually means noticing specific changes [...]

2020-02-24T14:22:13+13:00May 25th, 2015|