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Surviving Stress: Periods of Deliberate Rest

In September 2019, my oldest friend Adam and I signed up for Bear Grylls’ ‘Survive the Highlands’ challenge. And this provided a good analogy for the importance of deliberate rest that I want to share with you today… Simulating a Survival Situation Five days, four nights, 10 men, and me …

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Dealing With The Physical Signs Of Stress

The second part in our Stress Awareness Month series is all about physical symptoms. Last week, we discussed apathy and anhedonia: lacking motivation or ability to derive pleasure from something you once enjoyed. But stress doesn’t just change our behaviour, it can affect our bodies, too. So, let’s explore the …

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Taking Breaks: Advocating Recovery in the Workplace

It’s the last part of our series encouraging you to think about what we, as human beings, need to thrive in an office environment. And this applies to both remote working arrangements, and the collective office. So far, we’ve discussed natural light, movement, and meeting culture. This week, I want …

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University Mental Health day: applying the Cadence Approach

Today, Thursday 9th March, is University Mental Health Day, and I believe students, much like the busy professionals we speak to at Bodyshot Performance, are just as prone to mental health conditions as anyone else. Mental health is one of the great levellers: we all have it. Sometimes it’s positive, …

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The Connection Between Sleep and Mood

In this series, I’m sharing some ideas on how to pick yourself up whenever you need it. Last week, I discussed breathwork, and the week before, natural light. Part three is all about the connection between sleep and mood. Time To Recover We know that some of the things that …

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Improving Mood with Natural Light

Thanks to a combination of perimenopause symptoms, January blues, and the lack of natural light and heat that most of us are experiencing, my mood hasn’t been great recently. So, I decided to sit down and create a checklist of everything I could do to improve it. This series of …

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James Clear’s Atomic Habits: The Minimal Effective Dose

It’s the final part in our series about building successful habits based on the work of James Clear and his book, Atomic Habits. So far, we’ve looked at identity, the aggregation of marginal gains, and the impact of compounding. This week, I want to discuss the minimal effective dose. The …

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