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Mental Fitness

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Mental Fitness

The stretch and the strain of stress and anxiety

The ability to understand and manage our stress and anxiety are both important pillars of our Mental Fitness. They often have something of an interdependent relationship with each other arriving as part of the same experience.  Stress is our response to a threat:...

Mental Fitness

Building the confidence to be creative

Creativity requires confidence.  By definition creativity requires self belief and self confidence. Whatever the form of creativity - art, design, advertising, music, entrepreneurialism, a new product or service, a new idea - creativity is the act of bringing...

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Mental Fitness

Relationships are a foundation for resilience.

Relationships and resilience are entwined. One of the things that fascinates and inspires us is how interconnected the foundations that support our Mental Fitness can be. They interweave like the poles of a tent, with each of the other poles strengthening the...

Making Friends with Stress
Mental Fitness

Making friends with stress

We live in stressful times. But stress can be our friend.  Even prior to the Pandemic HSE figures for 2019/20 reported that depression or anxiety accounted for 51% of all work-related ill health cases and 55% of all working days lost due to work-related ill health....

Mental Fitness Goals
Mental Fitness

What are your Mental Fitness goals for 2022?

Whether or not you think New Year's Resolutions are a good idea, it's pretty common at this time of the year for people to make plans for things they want to achieve or “tick off the list” during the next 12 months. Taking some time to reflect and to define these...

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