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Mental Health and Supporting Children and Adolescents Since the Coronavirus Pandemic
Mental Health and Supporting Children and Adolescents Since the Coronavirus Pandemic The sudden impact of the Coronavirus pandemic has changed all of our lives in various ways. The challenge of lockdown has resulted in social isolation, social distancing due to fear...
Women’s Depression: Symptoms And Causes
The word "depression" has been replicated, but everyone understands something of their own under this concept most often depression is simply called a bad mood or a blue that prevails in autumn or winter. Find out in this article the symptoms and causes of...
9 Types Of People Who Never Succeed At Work
Experience and knowledge are rapidly losing their relevance to success in the workplace. Harvard economist David Deming studied workplace tasks from 1980 to the present day and found that those that emphasize social skills grew by a whopping 24%, while tasks requiring...
How To Break A Bad Habit—For Good
Have you ever tried to break a bad habit, only to give up in frustration? The problem isn’t that you’re weak or that the bad habit is too ingrained; in all likelihood, you just gave up too soon. Researchers at University College, London, found that it takes 66 days...
9 Things That Will Kill Your Career
There are so many things that can kill the careers of good, hard-working people. Honest mistakes often carry hard-hitting consequences. We usually only hear about the more egregious examples, such as when Yelp employee Talia Jane became an Internet sensation last...
5 Signs You’re Much Smarter Than Average
Intelligence, or IQ, isn’t what you know, but rather the pace at which you acquire new information. Longitudinal studies have shown that IQ is fixed at an early age, so you’re stuck with what you’ve got. While IQ is far from being the only thing that...
7 Core Beliefs Of Great Bosses
Great bosses change us for the better. They see more in us than we see in ourselves, and they help us learn to see it too. They dream big and show us all the great things we can accomplish. Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know...
7 Ways Managers Motivate and Demotivate Employees
Few things are as costly and disruptive as managers who kill morale. Demotivated employees underperform and then walk out the door at the first opportunity. The scariest thing is how prevalent this lack of motivation is. Gallup research shows that 70% of employees...
How Emotionally Intelligent People Handle Toxic People
Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people’s buttons. Either way, they create unnecessary complexity, strife, and...
Why Women Are Smarter Than Men
Trying to compare intelligence and gender doesn't typically yield much in the way of productive discussion, but sometimes research comes along that's worth opening this particular can of worms. Decades of research show unequivocally that men and women are equal in...
Training the Brain
Consider the project manager who takes obsessive precautions to ensure her team doesn’t make any mistakes. At a meeting, she details tasks for each team member to accomplish the following week, and then decides to take care of half of them herself without telling a...
Why You Should Spend Your Money on Experiences, Not Things
When you work hard every single day and there’s only so much money left after your regular expenses, you have to make certain it’s well spent. Spend your limited funds on what science says will make you happy. The Paradox of Possessions A 20-year study conducted by...
4 Ways Sleeping Naked Makes You Healthier and Wealthier
What if I told you in just 10 seconds a day, you can sleep better, make more money, reduce stress, and lose weight? Sleeping naked can do all these things and more. All you have to do is take off your clothes. While there are countless strategies floating around out...
10 Ways To Beat Stress
Stress has a funny way of sneaking up on you when you least expect it, but how you respond is only half the battle. The secret to winning the war against stress lies in what you do when you aren’t working (and presumably aren’t stressed). While I have a hobby that I...
10 Signs You’re Burning Out (And How To Stop It)
Even the best jobs can lead to burnout. The harder you work and the more motivated you are to succeed, the easier it is to get in over your head. The prevalence of burnout is increasing as technology further blurs the line between work and home. New research from the...
Winter colds
Its mid-November. Sainsbury’s have released their annual Christmas ad, the light switching’s have begun and Christmas carols are already being played in Topshop. Everyone is in the festive spirit. Aside from all the festivities and fun, unfortunately with winter,...
Music and mental health
Music is more than just a pass time for a trip to school, or background shower music. The effects of music on our body are much stronger than many of us think. Whether you’re an ABBA lover, a Belieber. Whether you love EDM, or Whitney Houston Ballads, music can have a...
Are you surrering from seasonal depression?
As we step into the rawest part of the season, coughs, sneezes, sniffing and blocked noses are well amongst us. But asides from the physically illnesses, we must also remember to take extra care of our mental health. Seasonal depression is most common in winter, hence...
One Million Pads Campaign
At Women in Healthcare UK, we think it's so important to support initiatives that tackle issues outside of mainstream media. In line with this belief, we are incredibly proud and honoured to be supporting the 'Million Pads Campaign' , and incredibly campaign that is...
World AIDS Day: A Conversation with Derek Polley.
December may mark the beginning of the Christmas period, but it also marks the start of an incredibly important awareness campaign. The 1st December is officially World AIDS Day, and it provides an opportunity for the world to demand that society sits up and listens....
November was… Lung Cancer Awareness Month
by Molah Media In the UK and around the world, every November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. Lung cancer often gets overlooked so it’s probably true to say that most of us hadn’t heard this. Movember - where male health is recognised, we hear of. Breast Cancer...
Free Healthcare Start-Up Event: What happened.
On the 24th November 2017, we held another fantastic FREE Healthcare Start-Up Event in Leeds which was packed with incredible help, support, knowledge and inspiration for all attendees! We had an incredible turn out once again, and it was truly inspiring to see so...
With Winter comes Cold Season!
At Women in Healthcare UK, we understand how easy it is to neglect your own health when you are focusing on the health of others. With the cold weather drawing in, with it comes the sniffles, the blocked noses, chesty coughs and shivers... Yes, Cold Season is upon us!...
5 tips to ensure your night shift isn’t one of nightmares!
By Hannah Fieldhouse
Taboos, hidden wounds and the UK – Why Mental Health issues can never heal in our society.
By Hannah Fieldhouse.