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Essential Tips for Workplace Wellbeing

Essential Tips for Workplace Wellbeing

In today’s demanding work environment, it’s easy for mental health to take a backseat as we focus on meeting deadlines, achieving targets, and managing daily pressures. However, neglecting our mental...

What Is Workplace Wellbeing and Why Is It Important?

What Is Workplace Wellbeing and Why Is It Important?

The concept of workplace wellbeing has attracted an increasing amount of attention in recent years, as organisations recognise the critical role it plays in business success.

Mental Health At Work: 7 Things Your Employees Won’t Tell You

Mental Health At Work: 7 Things Your Employees Won’t Tell You

Whether in a bustling office or the quiet solitude of remote work, a silent story often goes untold in any work environment.

Is the Concept of Neurodiversity Useful?

Is the Concept of Neurodiversity Useful?

Focus on Workplace Applications by Andres Fonseca

Understanding the Importance of Quality Sleep for Mental Wellbeing

Understanding the Importance of Quality Sleep for Mental Wellbeing

In a fast-paced world where productivity often takes precedence over rest, it's easy to overlook the significance of a good night's sleep. Yet, the quality of our sleep directly impacts our mental...

Is Your Tea Choice as Unique as Your Mental Health Journey?

Is Your Tea Choice as Unique as Your Mental Health Journey?

Monday, January 15th 2024 marks Brew Monday, a Samaritans campaign urging everyone to connect over a cuppa and a chat. Strengthening bonds with loved ones is crucial for mental wellbeing,...

Mental Health Awareness Week 2023

Mental Health Awareness Week 2023

Our Impact in 2022

Our Impact in 2022

“There are many things we are proud of when it comes to our mental healthcare service. From providing accessible support to individuals with our app and digital therapy, to our comprehensive webinars...

Evidence-Based Mental Health Care

Evidence-Based Mental Health Care

Did you know that only an estimated 3-4% of mental health apps are evidence-based?¹ The regulation of mental health services is just beginning to differentiate between ‘lifestyle solutions’ and...

Women’s Mental Health at Work and Beyond

Women’s Mental Health at Work and Beyond

One in five women in the UK has a common mental health condition like anxiety or depression.¹ To celebrate International Women’s Day, we explored women’s mental health both within and outside the...

How to Create the Perfect Work-Life Balance

How to Create the Perfect Work-Life Balance

Navigating the challenges of modern life can be tough.

Symptoms of Depression and Treatment

Symptoms of Depression and Treatment

It is completely normal to feel a little sad or down sometimes. However, if you are constantly feeling sad and cannot enjoy anything positive for a longer period of time, you might be experiencing...

Symptoms of Anxiety and Treatment

Symptoms of Anxiety and Treatment

Anxiety can be described as feeling worried, tense or afraid. It is a common feeling that we all experience at some point in our lifetime and can range from mild to severe. Anxiety can be thought of...

Promoting Good Mental Health in Daily Life

Promoting Good Mental Health in Daily Life

We all have mental health, just like physical health – it is more than just mental illness or the absence of it. It also includes the way in which we think, feel, act, make choices and relate to...

Finding Life Satisfaction

Finding Life Satisfaction

At Thrive Mental Wellbeing, we value the potential everyone has to change and continue learning throughout their lifetime. To reach our potential life satisfaction at an ideal pace and build a...

New Joint Venture Disrupting EAP Market in Australia and New Zealand

New Joint Venture Disrupting EAP Market in Australia and New Zealand

Thrive Mental Wellbeing is delighted to announce a new joint venture that will see our workplace mental wellbeing services disrupt the Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) sector in Australia and New...

Let’s Talk About Men’s Mental Health

Let’s Talk About Men’s Mental Health

A Conversation with Brothers in Arms

Meet the Thrive therapy team: Part one

Meet the Thrive therapy team: Part one

A series of blogs about our therapy team and our service.

#IGetHelp for Mental Health Awareness Week

#IGetHelp for Mental Health Awareness Week

Finding the courage to seek support for our mental health is one of the most empowering, yet challenging, things we can do. This Mental Health Awareness Week (9th – 15th May), we are encouraging...

Finding the best mental health app for your organisation

Finding the best mental health app for your organisation

Certification is a huge part of choosing the equipment that supports your workforce. So, why shouldn’t we hold our mental health support to the same standard? With 31% of employees expecting more...

International Women’s Day 2022.

International Women’s Day 2022.

To celebrate International Women’s Day, we explored women’s mental health in modern society both inside and outside the workplace.

How to support yourself and others during a world crisis.

How to support yourself and others during a world crisis.

Watching the war between Russia and Ukraine unfold, people around the world are experiencing all sorts of emotions ranging from numbness, helplessness, guilt and fear to hostility, anger and rage....

Our 10 year anniversary!

Our 10 year anniversary!

A look on how far we have come!

Be Kind to Yourself this Blue Monday

Be Kind to Yourself this Blue Monday

When Blue Monday comes to mind, the first thought might be ‘ the most depressing day of the year’. Christmas is now over, it’s dark during your daily commute and you might be feeling the strains of...

Selflessness In a Time Of Crisis

Selflessness In a Time Of Crisis

Selflessness is the quality of caring more about what other people need and want than about what you yourself need and want. But for many of us, true selfless behaviour sounds like a fairy tale...

“The Quality Of Being Kind”

“The Quality Of Being Kind”

As a therapist, I am often surprised by how much of our struggles come down to the way we think. The problems that keep us awake at night, issues we have at work and conflicts we go through with...

Men and Therapy

Men and Therapy

Men are often underrepresented in some mental health services such as talking therapy services but overrepresented in others, such as forensic mental health and addiction services.

What Are The Negative Effects of Social Media on Mental Health?

What Are The Negative Effects of Social Media on Mental Health?

Social media has become an integral part of daily life for many people, with more than 5 billion people worldwide now active on different platforms.

Optimise your lunch break

Optimise your lunch break

As we have entered our second year of the global pandemic, working from home remains in place for many employees around the world. Whilst the exit from lockdown in the UK and returning to the office...

Beating the Winter Blues

Beating the Winter Blues

It’s that time of the year again; winter begins, Christmas approaches and the days are shorter. It’s common to be affected by changing seasons and weather or to have times where you feel less...

How to Support Someone with Depression

How to Support Someone with Depression

It is completely normal that we sometimes have a low mood and feel a little sad or down. However, if you know someone who is constantly feeling sad and cannot enjoy anything positive anymore for a...

Coping with Redundancies

Coping with Redundancies

Due to the current crisis, many organisations had to make drastic structural changes and reductions in their workforce. Others still have employees furloughed who may fear also being made redundant...

Anxiety associated with Seasonal Affective Disorder

Anxiety associated with Seasonal Affective Disorder

With the winter months coming, some of us might worry about being affected by seasonal affective disorder (SAD) which is a type of depression. Commonly, SAD is called a “winter depression” as people...

Breaking and Making Habits

Breaking and Making Habits

Before we talk about ways of creating good habits and breaking the bad ones, it’s important to understand what habits are and how they’re formed. Most of the things that we do every day are the...

How Social Media affects Adolescent Mental Health

How Social Media affects Adolescent Mental Health

Over the last two decades, the use of social media has become part of our daily lives. We use it for entertainment, to stay connected and to keep up to date with important information. Especially in...

The Concept of Identity

The Concept of Identity

You would be hard-pressed to find a person not familiar with the concept of identity. For an idea that has only been around a little over 100 years, this speaks volumes about its power. Of course,...

Thrive PR Round Up

Thrive PR Round Up

Over the past few months, we have proudly been featured in some of the leading media outlets providing our expert knowledge and supporting millions of readers worldwide.