Mental Wellness Blog & News

This week it is Mental Health Week in Canada and next week it is Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK. May is also Mental Health Month in the U.S.* All those mental health campaigns focus on how to support those who suffer and acknowledge the problem. That is great and much needed.   However, if you want to prevent suffering, you need to focus on how to take responsibility for your ow...

We have published several blogs and articles that open up the signs of stress and shine a light on the burnout symptoms and early warning signs of burnout. Still, we see that skills for coping with stress and occupational burnout are low. So, let us take a look at human resource development and leadership/management viewpoint and put work related stress and em...

April is known as Stress Awareness Month. Are you aware of the negative effects of stress? What steps do you plan for preventing stress and burnout for yourself and your team? In our previous blogs, we have written about work related stress in the United Kingdom. Now MHA’s third annual Work Health Survey measured the perceptions of over 5,000 employees across 17 industries in the United S...

In 2015, we carried out an inventory on the Internet and found out that an easily accessible and fairly priced proactive mental wellness approach was not available. That led us to start working on the new and revolutionary mental wellness path that focused on preventing mental health issues. The need for such an approach was and still is huge, as for multiple decades the mental health approac...

Our Managing Director and one of our founders, Kaur Lass, often hears the question: What is your mental health story?  Kaur has written his mental wellness story and now shares it with you. It opens up that you can be and stay well while working with mentally demanding tasks. We hope it inspires you to stay well! TO STAY WELL = KNOWING HOW TO DEAL WITH PRESSURE I have experienced ...

One of our main target markets with mental wellness e-trainings is the UK. As the United Kingdom left the European Union on January 1st, 2021, we lacked a simple solution for accepting payments for few weeks of this year. Now we have solved this, and the good news to all our UK customers and prospects is that we can again accept the local payments the way that is easy for you. We can now submit...

Often our problems consume our time and (mental) health. By the definition of Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary problem is a "thing that is difficult to deal with or to understand." So, by definition of a problem, it is not the real problem. Your difficulty is the one aspect of the problem. When you would know how to deal with it, it would no longer be exper...

We all love to be smart because it enables us to get things done efficiently. When we use our inner mental functions purposefully, we can get impeccable work results. Strangely, the currently dominating approach to keeping our minds well is mostly not proactive – focused on how to stay fit and well. Instead, our approach to mental health in workplaces and society is dominantly reactive, w...

Proactively maintaining our internal health or mental fitness is the new effective pattern and it starts from letting go of our old inner automatic reactions. Our society and the nature of our work has changed over the last year more than during the first 19 years of this century. The restrictions that we all face due to lockdowns have made us notice that most of today’s office work is no...

Stress Awareness Day every year on the first Wednesday in November aims to point out the importance of stress relief and offer solutions on how to reduce the stress levels in your life and work situations efficiently. Stress Awareness Day was established by the International Stress Management Association (ISMA) to provide information on stress and strategies on how to address it for...

Offering a proactive workplace wellness program for employees is now a must if you want to see personal initiative and personal responsibility. Without those two qualities, people fail to perform efficiently when they work remotely and take long Zoom calls.  The Global Wellness Institute stated back in 2015 that only 9% of the three billion-plus workers in the world have access t...

Living with technology at our desks and in our pockets has caused us to think that we are capable of running multiple ‘apps’ in the background as our computers do. Sadly this is not the case with the human mind. Therefore multitasking has had an adverse effect on all working environments. Working from our homes and remotely has proved that multitasking effectively is a mission imp...

The old concept of the ‘work-life balance’ is now totally outdated. Working from home, remotely or as contract workers is now the new norm. The technology that we carry with us almost 24/7 means there is no longer a clear distinction between work and life. What was left of it became history with the global lockdown. So, how do we adapt? How do we deal with the daily stressors aro...

The stress, anxiousness, and burnout risk that comes from the isolation and uncertainty of the pandemic, as well as the current problematic economic situation, leaves many workplaces and employees paralyzed. Instead of taking action, people wait.  The  COVID-19 pandemic is pushing us to notice the shortcomings of our own mental health — especially when it comes to deal...

The world has been experiencing a workplace mental health crisis for years as stress and burnout levels are sky-high and anxiety and depression are among the top causes of all illnesses. Now, the global coronavirus pandemic is taking an added toll on mental health, those who have suffered from anxiousness, stress, or are on the path to burnout feel now even more alone. This is the mental wel...