eQuoo is trying to paint a picture for people who do not struggle with general or severe anxiety, what it may feel like, and how it can impact people on a typical workday. We want to allow them to try to walk in your shoes so that they can make decisions around workplace offerings that …
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If people pleasing makes others happy, how does it differ from being authentically kind? Your favourite band is performing in your hometown. You call everybody you know, shout it from the rooftops and set at least 5 active reminders of the upcoming event. You are over the moon excited – after all you’ve been waiting …
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Is Ghosting the new Communicating? You’ve been single for a while – and after months of being in and out of lockdown, you want to put yourself out there again. You download a dating app – and find a real connection with one person. After a couple weeks of texting and digital flirting, you finally …
Welcome to the World Mental Health Day Self-Kindness Challenge World Mental Health Day is internationally celebrated on October 10 to raise global awareness of mental health issues and promote support for all people who struggle with their mental health. Although positive discussions around mental health are increasing, mental health illnesses are on the rise and …
Get Your Anxiety Under Control with a Few Simple Steps In a poll we did with Unidays Students, 67% said they were super-anxious about going back to Uni and making new friends – or not making new friends. On a walk the other day, a friend nonchalantly said that she didn’t know a single person …
Are the continuous changes at work contributing to an increase in anxiety and burnout? Recently our CEO, Silja Litvin, recognised how much work calls contributed to her anxiety – specifically when she started to feel like it was eating up time that she could have otherwise spent on “actual work”. She didn’t understand why work …
Is it Possible to Heal again after Gaslighting? Gaslighting is a form of mental and emotional abuse often designed to manipulate a person into doubting themselves and their reality. Gaslighting is not always easy to detect – it is the subtle art of manipulation whereby a person’s reality is re-defined to conform to the perpetrator’s …
Resilience Boosts Emotional Health, but is Too Much Positivity becoming Unhealthy? Resilience is having the skills to keep moving forward despite what life throws at you. It is the art of bouncing back from life’s challenges – and a quality that encourages overcoming these challenges knowing you will endure. Resilience is when we encourage ourselves …
In a World where Extroversion is Highly Valued, is Introversion Undervalued? Extroversion and introversion fall at opposite ends of a spectrum. Extroversion is when people like to be involved in a world surrounded by people, busy places and activities – so naturally, they learn best when they are actively communicating with different people. However, those …
While Mental Health has the Limelight, We Should be Focussing on Emotional Health Mental Health is finally starting to get the attention it deserves, yet we’re seeing increasing numbers of people requiring initial or additional support. Here we look at why emotional health might be the key to stemming the growing number of people struggling …
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