Guest blog

Meet a Mindapples Champion!

2 December 2021

This week we thought we’d hand over the Mindapples blog to one of our newest wellbeing champions. Tilly is a second year psychology student at Nottingham Trent University and recently completed her Mindapples Champion’s Training as part of our ongoing universities wellbeing programme. Over to you Tilly! Coming from a background of finding it so […]

Sanity and the City: Relationships at Work

6 April 2016

Managing bipolar disorder at work There’s no doubt about it that creating and maintaining successful relationships in work situations can be hard, and there are many reasons for this. Three of the most significant are “The three Ps” – personalities, politics and pressure. In any working environment you’re thrown together with people with whom you […]

Make Time For Your Mind

2 October 2013

This is a guest blogpost by John James Morris who took part in the Team v campaign “Make Time For Your Mind”. During my first campaign, raising awareness of youth homelessness with Team v, I spent three nights sleeping rough in Stoke-On-Trent. It was one of the most difficult things that I have ever done […]

A brief history of mindfulness

15 March 2010

Hang out around mental health circles either side of the Atlantic at the moment and soon enough you’ll hear someone talking about mindfulness. And here in the UK, the status of mindfulness as official flavour of the psychotherapist’s month was secured this year when the Mental Health Foundation launched its Be Mindful project. With its […]

Sophia’s 5-A-Day

9 January 2009

Sophia Parker wrote this really interesting post on her 5-a-day…. “I find it oddly moving to read other people’s submissions. There’s a Theodore Zeldin-esque quality* to what people say: we gain new insights about aspects of people’s minds and emotions that usually remain hidden. Making these things public leaves us readers with a warm […]