Blogs Archives - Page 7 of 17

Tips for budgeting and managing stress in the cost-of-living crisis

2 May 2023

A male presenting person in a supermarket with just their hands and torso visible, wearing a brown shirt, putting fruit into a shopping bag.

Stress Awareness Month may be over for another year, but with issues like the cost-of-living crisis continuing to put pressure…

Burnout culture: why it’s time to rethink our approach to stress at work

18 April 2023

Our Digital Communications Officer, Alice, shares how a surprise adult ADHD diagnosis changed everything she knew about burnout, and suggests employers need a better approach to preventing workplace stress.

How to create a healthy work-life balance

11 April 2023

As part of Stress Awareness Month we decided to speak to some of our teams and find out first-hand how they manage stress at work, and what steps they take to ensure a healthy work-life balance.

Stress in the workplace

3 April 2023

To launch Stress Awareness Month this April, we take a look at stress in the workplace; how to recognise signs you may be stressed and steps you can take to help you cope.

Neurodiversity at work

13 March 2023

As part of Neurodiversity Celebration Week, former Second Step colleague Dulseigh Pomerance-Trifts, who now works community interest company Inclusive Change,…

The myth of the LGBTQ+ Community: The Curse of intersectionality

27 February 2023

To conclude LGBT+ History Month, Chay Harwood, a support workers with our High Support Accommodation Service, has written a blog on intersectionality. Chay looks at how the added layers of class and ethnicity affect people within the LGBTQ+ community, which isn’t always as accepting and inclusive as it makes out.

How bisexual erasure makes it tough to come out

20 February 2023

To celebrate LGBT+ History Month, Jemma Stovell, a recovery coach for Step Together, writes about bi erasure (bisexual erasure) – how she has witnessed it in her life and why it makes it difficult to come out.