By Chris Welford on 21st January, 2020 in Sane Works
Despite the fact that we all spend up to a third of our lives in bed, it’s remarkable how little is generally understood about the mysteries of sleep. For so many people getting to sleep and staying asleep have become the most un-natural of natural experiences. It’s easy just to...
By Chris Welford on 5th November, 2019 in Sane Works
This is International Stress Awareness Week. Did you realise that mental ill health is the third biggest cause of absence in the workplace? In 2017/8, 15.4 million working days were lost due to work-related stress, depression or anxiety. That’s 44% of all work-related ill health cases and nearly 60% of...
By Chris Welford on 25th June, 2019 in Sane Works
What has sleep got to do with business? The answer is quite a lot! It is one of the keys to healthy high performance. “Poor sleepers are twice as likely to struggle to be productive, three times more likely to struggle to concentrate and seven times more likely to feel...
By Chris Welford on 20th June, 2019 in Psychotherapy & Counselling
How does the stressed mind think? Relax and give this a moment’s contemplation. You are programmed to deal with emergencies in a remarkably efficient way; using the minimum of precious mental resources and at maximum speed. Your life depends on it. That’s what evolution has provided you with – an...
By Chris Welford on 4th June, 2019 in Psychotherapy & Counselling, Sane Works
They seem to love battering us with miserable stories and scaremongering about global conflict and the ever-present discomfort of Brexit, which seems to nag away at us like a chronically bad back! But our parents and grandparents lived through far worse, with world wars and a far less generous social...
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