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Turning reluctance into resilience: How to build a new habit
Our resilience is being built through day-to-day actions, through those repetitive behaviours that help us thrive and protect our wellbeing in times when life gets tough. During winter, it becomes more difficult to stick [...]
Six tips by a sleep psychologist to improve sleep quality
Increase your hunger for sleep: Poor quality sleep found to be common in Umbrella survey Do you feel like you aren’t getting good quality sleep at night? Do you wake up feeling tired and [...]
Healthy habits research among leaders
“One leader we work with recalls a time when her workload was so high that she started getting up at 4am and working for a few hours before her team started the day, just [...]
Get moving for your brain. Physical activity and wellbeing
‘Exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain in terms of mood, memory and learning’ - John Joseph Ratey, M.D. Clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Are you losing focus [...]
Working overtime? Insights from research and law
You might have seen the headlines recently: working long hours isn’t good for our health. Maybe you read the headlines and chose to blissfully ignore them, excusing yourself as the exception to the rule. [...]
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