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Burnout 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.
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How 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.
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Stress 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.
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Neurodiversity at work
As part of Neurodiversity Celebration Week, former Second Step colleague Dulseigh Pomerance-Trifts, who now works community interest company Inclusive Change,…
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The 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.
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How 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.
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