mental health

Get inside our heads

Why workplace wellbeing?

24 March 2021

Smart businesses promote wellbeing at work. Find out why with Andy Gibson and Mindapples.

Everyday mental health is a more pressing issue than ever. Those of you who have been following Mindapples’ activities during the COVID-19 pandemic will know we’ve been putting more of our material into the public domain to get people talking about we can all do to look after our minds. (Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, […]

Free webinar: how to feed your mind

26 January 2021

Hi everyone, we hope you are well and coping ok in these difficult times. The Mindapples charity is passionate about making knowledge about mental health and wellbeing accessible to all, and supporting people who need help managing their minds. We don’t normally offer that many public events, but with the COVID-19 pandemic putting us all […]

How to recognise and manage our emotions.

25 January 2021

Mindapples trainer Anna helps us all to notice when our emotions are getting in the way of us managing our responses and shares some top tips into how we can all keep our cool.

Mindapple-a-day: Set personal goals

Mindapples trainer Amanda shares a mindapple about goal setting. Have you set yourself a target or a goal which helps you focus your mind?

Mindapple-a-day: Swimming

23 January 2021

Amanda shares one of Alans 5 a day. What exercise do you do regularly that’s good for your mind?

Mindapple-a-day: Eating chocolate

20 January 2021

Amanda shares one of Gitas five a day for her mind. Why is chocolate such a comfort? Robert Thayer talks about moods being a relationship between energy and tension, when we have high energy and low tension this is our ‘happy place’, or state of flow. Completing tasks feels easy, we’re motivated and in […]

Mindapple-a-day: Calling friends on Zoom

5 January 2021

Mindapples trainer Amanda shares Nigel’s mindapple, chatting to friends on zoom. Feeling related to other people is an important psychological need, the self-determination theory explains that relatedness is an absolute basic need in order to feel good. So although Nigel’s zoom call is ‘just for a chat’, he’s providing an absolute basic psychological need for […]

Mindapple-a-day: Amanda’s winter mindapples

15 December 2020

Mindapples trainer Amanda shares her winter mindapples: Cosy nights in by the fire with a good book A glass of red wine More zoom chats with friends A run, even when it’s grey and drizzly And a bracing swim in the sea!!!!

Mindapple-a-day: “remind myself I only need to be good enough”

12 November 2020

Mindapples’ Head Gardener Andy Gibson shares Naomi’s Mindapples about “reminding herself that she only needs to be good enough.” We put a lot of pressure on ourselves, particularly if we’re high in conscientiousness, if you’re the kind of person that thinks there’s a correct way for things to be done and who cares a […]