Category Archives: Mental Health

What do you want?

Just a quick link to an interesting study on the changing values of new employees today.
A steady paycheque just doesn’t seem to cut it with the new recruits of today’s workforce. This new generation of workers expects employers to support them in achieving worklife balance.
Employers take note!
Perhaps it is that we have seen what [...]

Is your job worth it?

Remember when you loved your job? Oh wait…Not loving your job now would imply that you did, at some point, enjoy your job and what it contributed to your life.
As a new recruit into the working world, I admit that I had idealistic dreams of finding my dream job; a job that would allow [...]

Laughter: life’s best medicine.

In looking for the simplest stress busters and easiest pick-me-uppers, I have come across something that is deceptively simple and surprisingly effective. It’s something that we all used to do as children. But, like many things we used to do as children, we seem to think we have outgrown it.
I’m talking about laughter! [...]

Stress, stress and more stress.

Lately, I notice myself feeling stressed; sometimes very stressed. I don’t necessarily think that I am stressed about anything in particular, but it is there gnawing at my nerves from the moment I open my eyes in the morning until I close my eyes at night.
Despite having studied the physiology behind the stress response [...]

Helping yourself without self-help.

Not long ago I was invited to attend a special introductory session held by an organization that touts personal development and success as their goal and mantra. Being completely unfamiliar with this organization, my first instinct was to wonder why I was being invited, what did they want from me, and finally what would [...]