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Suicidal thoughts and me
A blog exploring suicidal thoughts and what can be done to help.
Read MoreManaging Anxiety: Understanding Anxiety and Finding Inner Calm
It’s Mental Health Awareness Week (15-21 May). This year, it’s shining a light on anxiety and its impact on our lives. Anxiety isn’t just your everyday worry or stress. It’s that feeling of unease and fear that can take over at any time. We’ve all been there, right? Feeling those butterfly nerves when you’re about to face a big exam or a nerve-wracking job interview. But when anxiety starts interfering with your daily life and overall wellbeing, that’s when it becomes a real challenge.
Read MoreTips for budgeting and managing stress in the cost-of-living crisis
Stress Awareness Month may be over for another year, but with issues like the cost-of-living crisis continuing to put pressure…
Read MoreBurnout culture: why it’s time to rethink our approach to stress at work
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.
Read MoreHow to create a healthy work-life balance
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.
Read MoreStress in the workplace
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.
Read MoreNeurodiversity at work
As part of Neurodiversity Celebration Week, former Second Step colleague Dulseigh Pomerance-Trifts, who now works community interest company Inclusive Change,…
Read MoreThe myth of the LGBTQ+ Community: The Curse of intersectionality
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.
Read MoreHow bisexual erasure makes it tough to come out
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.
Read MoreThe role of humour in mental health recovery
Today, senior operations manager Sophie Dumayne gives her thoughts on the importance of humour and honesty when coping with mental…
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