Skip Oliver
Mental Health: Walk The Green Path
'It's an empowering, enlivening journey walking the Green Path'. That is, as forager and herbalist Robert Harford tell us, 'to spend more...
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Skip Oliver
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Mental Health: Take A Step Back
Taking a step back and slowing down when you’ve been pushing yourself too hard helps you to manage stress. Having motivation is a good...
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Mental Health: Don't Waste Time In Self-Pity
Emotionally strong people know that life and love offers challenges. So they neither reflect on the negative circumstances nor worry...
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Mental Health: Write Down Your Worries
Writing down your anxious thoughts gets it out of your head and onto a page and creates some distance between you and the cause of your...
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Mental Health: Comfort In A Reliable Read
The world as depicted in the media is often violent and unsafe. But, although we should exercise caution, it is worth remembering that...
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Mental Health: Cultivate Awe
The dots of light we see in the sky are all light-years from Earth. That knowledge when we look up at the night sky produces something in...
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Mental Health: How To Escape
Take escapologist extraordinaire Robert Wringham's advice from his course on 'How To Escape' on The Idler - 'Expensive consumer habits...
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Mental Health: Clean Home, Clean Mind
That well known proverb 'Home is Where The Heart Is' is just where we should be centring our attention now for the whiff of spring is in...
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Mental Health: Je Ne Regrette Rien
Remember you’ll always regret what you didn’t do rather than what you did. We all have regrets. My regret is that I haven't achieved...
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Mental Health: Silence Develops The Brain
Silence has been found to stimulate brain growth: In 2013, a study into brain structure and function (Imke Kirste regenerate biologist)...
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Mental Health: Show Yourself Some Love!
During the first lockdown I watched a TED interview with Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) in which she talked about writing a letter...
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Mental Health: Throw Yourself A Sickie
Lots of pressures land on our shoulders everyday. If you feel like you're the end of the line in terms of decision making and it's...
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Mental Health: Sit Down and Be Quiet
Meditation is NOT difficult. Like any discipline, it takes incremental effort and scheduling to enter the path that will eventually lead to
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Mental Health: Live To Be Human
Do you ever feel like you've been on the go since you were born? Do you believe that there is a constant struggle? Is there a way of sto