Feeling the Love…. from the heart. Love as we know takes many, many forms. We can take pleasure in, and find love in so many aspects of our lives and given the state that the world is in, the economy, cost of living crisis, but especially with the recent...
The festive season is fast approaching and with this comes the challenge of buying the perfect gifts for all the men in your life. Now, as we all know it can sometimes be a challenge to buy a gift that someone will love. At Scentered, we believe this time of...
The benefit of the warmer weather is being able to get outside and be in nature. It is a way to help ground and balance you. A whole world opens up as soon as the sun starts to shine. However, just because everything around you is lighter and brighter, doesn’t...
The science of waking up early has been proven to have profound effects. The power of adjusting your sleep routine can be amazing for your mental health. Mental health and sleep go hand-in-hand. If you have a poor sleeping routine then this can be detrimental to your mental health. Having...
The majority of us are ready to give winter the old heave-ho and welcome the emergence of spring. That said, the nation is still battle-scarred by the cold weather, recent storms, two years of Covid-19 and of course the annual arrival of Flu, the common cold and a plethora of...
Menopause is a very personal experience, affecting each of us differently. Some, it would seem, barely notice the changes, apart from the fluctuation and eventual decline in monthly periods. For others, it’s an intensely emotional period of their life, adjusting to a new identity and coming to terms with another...
Do you know the difference between an anxiety attack and a panic attack? Not a lot of people know that there’s a difference but there most certainly is, by knowing this we can learn how to better manage both attacks before, during and after they occur, and perhaps learn how...
I think it’s fair to say that life is lived at such a fast pace nowadays. We’re all eager to pack in as much as possible, the fear of missing out, always niggling at the back of our subconscious. We move from one thing to another, swerving and changing direction...
Written by Volker Ballueder ‘Man up’ I heard him saying to his little boy. ‘Don’t be a sissy’. ‘Don’t cry like a girl’. Those and similar phrases used to be all too common, and for some people they still are. I believe that my generation is what I call an...
Written by Lucy Higgins, ICF Life & Mindset Coach The pandemic has pushed many of us to breaking point. Women have felt stressed, overwhelmed and been running on adrenaline. Since training as a transformational life coach, I have a broad range of coaching tools and techniques based on psychological and...
Written by Volker Ballueder With the pandemic, at least in the UK, seemingly coming to an end this summer, we need to think how we incorporate mental wellbeing into our daily lives. Pre-pandemic, the words of ‘mental wellbeing’ sounded a bit foreign to a lot of people, there isn’t...
By Lucy Higgins, ICF accredited Life & Mindset Coach The dreaded school gates. I don’t know one parent who looks forward to school drop off or pick up. The morning battles of breakfasting, tooth brushing and bag packing are bad enough without being forced into polite conversation. It’s exhausting. Who...
By Lucy Higgins, ICF accredited Life and Mindset Coach @bigtalkformums “In the rush to return to normal, use this time to consider which parts of normal are worth rushing back to.” Dave Hollis. In April 2020, you may remember this quote was doing the rounds on all social media platforms. Little did...
Written by Volker Ballueder When being asked to write about a year in lockdown, I figured I look back at what happened back in February 2020. Having had a continuous cough for 6 weeks, and people moving away from me on the train, I had no idea that - most...
I don’t envy kids right now. After a year of uncertainty, home-schooling, and missing out on crucial socialisation, they’re expected to slot back into school and pick up their studies from where they left off. The ramifications of successive national lockdowns, however, will surely be long-lasting. Our nation is facing...
Children around the UK have finally returned to the classroom, after a long period of home schooling and COVID restrictions, it’s what parents everywhere had wanted for so long. A sense of normality, structure and routine could now resume. For many children, seeing their friends and teachers once more was...
A feeling almost anybody can relate to and is in an incomprehensible way almost normalized in today’s society is stress. Every day, we find ourselves facing many challenges on both personal and professional level which can build up to a feeling of stress or anxiety. The work keeps piling up...
Written by Volker Ballueder This too shall pass; a mantra I have been saying to myself since the beginning of the year. The lockdown, the bad weather, the cold weather, all contribute to us feeling miserable, lonely, isolated. A lot of us are not ‘feeling it’ or are in a...
It’s been almost a year since the coronavirus found its way to us and it now seems like it’s not going anywhere for a little while. The pandemic has had a tremendous impact on our everyday lives and with that, our mental state. Throughout the past year, a lot more...
