Did you know that time to play is important for adults as well as children? Claire Noyelle takes at look at the benefits of play for adults and suggests some fun and easy ways we can play more! Something I take delight in every spring is to see the new lambs...
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Emotionally Based School Avoidance
Claire Noyelle explores the reasons behind the recent increase in Emotionally Based School Avoidance and what can be done to support children and young people back into education. If you are a parent of a school-aged child, you can almost certainly recall a day when...
Your Nap Map
How does napping benefit our mental wellbeing?As a species, humans are the only ones that will deliberately deprive themselves of sleep. Other animals have their sleep patterns enshrined as a matter of life and death and we ... don’t! We may have the same biological...
Living With Impostor Syndrome
How does imposter syndrome impact our work, life and mental health?How it Started for Me When most people think of me or see me, they might think of my brightly coloured blue/turquoise hair, my flamboyant clothes and having a real sense of confidence…and that IS me, I...
Is Hypnotherapy Effective with Mental Health Issues?
Evidence that Solution Focused Hypnotherapy is as effective at preventing mental health problems as it is resolving them. You might have noticed that over the last few months Inspired to Change has been talking about the research study we undertook with Northumbria...
Book Review: Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
Stolen Focus Book Review by Carmen Harrington What is this book about? This important book explains why we have lost the ability to focus and concentrate. How do we get that focus back and learn how to pay attention in a world with so many distractions? This is...
The Science Behind Love
Today - 14th February - is Valentine's Day, so what else would I be writing about but LOVE? Whether you’re a romantic or cynic, whether you buy into it wholeheartedly or avoid it altogether, Valentines Day has been in our calendars since the 15th century as a...
The Science Behind Random Acts of Kindness
Are we too busy for kindness? STOP, pause for a moment, take a deep breath, and as you breathe out, make the biggest smile you can. It’s all go, go, go, get to work on time, take the kids to school, that meeting, get my hair done, pay the bill, get the...
How can we live in the moment?
Living in the Moment How many times have we been somewhere, and we’ve observed people looking through their camera or phone as they take photos or videos. They’re too busy looking at the framing/sizing etc to truly be living in the moment. They’re thinking about how...
The Effectiveness of Solution Focused Hypnotherapy in a UK Police Force
Inspired to Change have been researching the effectiveness of Solution Focused Hypnotherapy in a UK Police Force Whilst we at Inspired to Change already know just how effective Solution Focused Hypnotherapy (SFH) can be we needed a chance to evidence this. The blue...
Is Smoking a Dying Habit?
The truth behind nicotine addiction and how hypnotherapy can help, without the need for nicotine replacements.A Breath of Fresh Air When I was a kid (we’re not talking war time here, but definitely pre- Instagram/Love Island era, when we still had house phones and...
The Seven Dwarfs of Mental Health
Which one are you?Our crochet hook wielding Inspired to Change Associate Carmen Harrington takes an different look at mental health through the eyes of the Seven Dwarfs! One of my favourite things to do is crochet and when I saw a pattern for the seven dwarfs...
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