Arts for Wellbeing: Making to Feel Good
I have always been a maker. At times in my life I’ve done it more, and at times less, but it’s a really important in helping me wind down, switch off, and just be in the moment. That said, and this is...
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I have always been a maker. At times in my life I’ve done it more, and at times less, but it’s a really important in helping me wind down, switch off, and just be in the moment. That said, and this is...
Less than two months into the UK’s first lockdown, Grant Shapps, the Secretary of State for the British Department of Transport, was tasked with delivering one of the now famous briefings from Downing...
Could nurturing our friendships help us to reclaim our wellbeing? When I was a child, I lived oversees and only saw my wider family (grandparents, cousins etc.) once, maybe twice, a year. I had a firs...
There are three main areas where I have noticed things have changed in recent times. This is primarily following COVID restrictions and lockdowns, but also due to the digital nature that the world has...
It’s amazing how STUFF accumulates. I’ve always considered myself pretty good at having regular sort-outs, but I realised over lockdown how much I’ve got in drawers and cupboards that is jus...
This year has been a strange one. Whilst I have continued to exercise through the medium of Zoom, or go for a socially distanced run with a friend, I haven’t been doing my go to stress relievers whic...
Back on the school run … I’ve just arrived back from the supermarket with a bag full of cookery ingredients (cheesecake, if you’re interested), because my daughters are doing practical DT lessons at s...
International Nurses Day is a day Angela Williams, Senior Lecturer in Nursing and nurse educator colleagues at Wrexham Glyndŵr University recognise annually. The date of the 12th May marks the an...
COVID-19 is a new strain of Coronavirus which has swept the globe and changed the way we live. But what exactly IS a virus and what can we do to slow the spread? Dr Neil Pickles, an Associate Dean of ...
On the 8th December 2020, Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world to be given a Pfizer Covid-19 jab. Five months later, over 33 million people have now received the first dose of the vacc...