How can Gardening Reduce Stress?Â
For National Stress Awareness Month, Guideposts have an amazing way to help keep our bodies and minds healthy - gardening! Read on to learn how gardening can help with stress and boost your brain power.
For National Stress Awareness Month, Guideposts have an amazing way to help keep our bodies and minds healthy - gardening! Read on to learn how gardening can help with stress and boost your brain power.
Planning DIY projects can be a great way for people with additional needs to stay positive, learn new skills, and beat the dreaded winter blues. Here are 7 easy DIY projects to keep busy and raise your spirits during the winter months.
12 Christmas Health & Wellbeing Tips from the Guideposts team to help with the stresses of the festive season
Placing too much focus on being productive can often have the exact opposite result. Mindful productivity is about getting more work done by being in the present moment and taking control of your mental and physical stress.
Can you use music to consciously alter your mood, and even help with feelings of stress, anxiety or depression? Consciously choosing music for your mood can also improve self-awareness.
Whether caring for someone with a mental health condition, a learning disability, dementia, or other needs, the demands can be different but the need for a break remains the same.
It’s holiday season, but with the restrictions on travelling abroad and the consequent difficulty in finding availability in the UK, many people will be spending their summer holiday at home this year. Here are our top tips to make your holiday at home as refreshing as possible.
It's hard for a person who is well and not disabled to imagine the difficulties that a disabled and/or ill person faces on a daily basis. Try this experiment to give you some idea of the challenges faced every day.
June gave a talk to Guideposts Dementia Carers Group in April about what to do on diagnosis of dementia, where she highlighted these tips from her own experience.
In our final guest blog for Mental Health Awareness Week Carole explains how being prone to mental illness may genetic in a similar way to some physical illnesses.
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