The Mindapples blog has been our outlet for our thoughts, inspirations and company announcements since 2008. It’s actually how Mindapples started, just blogging about mental health and wellbeing, and inviting people to share what they do that’s good for their minds.
Now we use it in two ways: for occasional announcements and updates about what we’re doing, and to post articles about psychology and health research that could help people get to know their minds better. Browse the recent posts below, and get in touch if you find something interesting that you think we should be reading.
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The Mind Manual, out now
The Mind Manual is our brand new guide to what’s going on inside your head, published today. It’s a practical guide to looking after your mind, and the follow-up to our award-winning guide to mental performance, A Mind for Business. Featuring our popular blend of insights from psychology, filtered through the wisdom of Mindapples’ global […]
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Help us with our research!
Hello everyone. We need your help! We’re designing a new questionnaire to measure public attitudes to taking care of their minds. It’s part of my current academic work to build a solid research framework around our projects. We need to get as many people as possible to fill out this long-form survey, so that we […]
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Theory of Change: The Mindapples Approach
The aim of Mindapples is to help everyone take better care of their minds. Research carried out by Mindapples and the charity Mind in 2013 showed that more than half of the people surveyed had never thought about the health of their minds, and 56% of the people wanted to know more about their mental […]
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Sanity and the City: Relationships at Work
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 […]
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“Male brain” vs “female brain” – no difference found
The difference between men and women’s brains has been a hot topic throughout the ages. Studies showing that one gender is better at certain mental tasks than the other (eg. spatial awareness), is often attributed to biological underpinnings; that men and women’s brains are hard-wired differently. A recent research study1 has found that there is in […]
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A Leap Year Wish
It’s been inspiring and encouraging to see the publicity around the Young Minds Matter series launched by The Duchess of Cambridge when she was guest editor of the Huffington Post this month. Especially the theme of taking preventative action. At Mindapples, that’s obviously a theme that is close to our hearts. If you’ve come across […]
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The Mindapples Tree at the Museum of Happiness
We were delighted to have the Mindapples Tree at the wildly successful Museum of Happiness event in Spitalfields Market. The Museum of Happiness brought together a ball pit, silent disco, laughter yoga, virtual reality experience, TickTheBucket and much, much more, all with the aim of doing things that raise spirits. I snuck into the Joy […]
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Handling pressure and stress at work
“Very few tigers are found prowling around the floors of a law firm,” says Rebecca Tipper in the second of Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co LLP’s blogs on the Mindapples programme. Developing our skills with Mindapples By: Rebecca Tipper 04 Dec 2015 Mindapples is a not-for-profit business which aims to teach us how our minds […]
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Mindapples Wellbeing, Resilience & Performance
We’re delighted to be working with Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co LLP. Here’s what their Peter Bond wrote in a blog about the launch: “You often hear about mental health in the news but it’s all too often linked to a negative story. Mental health tends to have connotations of illness, rather than have the […]
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Declaring victory
It’s been over five years since we started Mindapples as a business (and even longer since the start of our campaign), and it’s fair to say the journey has been… emotional. Running a mental health organisation is tough enough at the best of times, without having to steer it through a global recession and brutal public spending cuts. […]
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