Mental Sunshine

I’ve been enjoying the lovely weather lately; I always feel like physical sunshine always increases my mental sunshine! For this week’s mental sunshine I want to talk about the idea of risking failure. Wait, what? Failure? In an email about improving your mood? Yes. Absolutely! This ties in with an email I sent a few […]

This week’s Mental Sunshine is a bit of a slow burner. Something that will take a bit of practice, but over time it will allow you to be much more content in your life. This week it’s all about uncertainty and control. We humans love to be certain about things, because it makes us feel

How is your shorter week going? I often find the week after a bank holiday can feel longer than a normal week! If I asked you right now to name one good thing that happened over the bank holiday, what would you say? If you had a weekend away, or even a day trip out,

I love sending out this weekly email with a little tip. Something you can try that might make things a bit more sunny in your head. This week’s tip is one of those things you might think has nothing to do with improving your mood… but bear with me! This week we’re talking about brain

How is the Mental Sunshine in your world at the moment? Each week I send out these emails in the hope of brightening the weather in your mind I do this because it makes me feel good to think I might have passed on some Mental Sunshine to the people around me. This week is

The heat wave seems to have died back a bit, and we’ve returned to normal early-May weather… But there are still plenty of reasons to smile! For this week’s Mental Sunshine I want you to try something really simple: Look up! I think it’s really easy to get used to just walking around, watching the

Welcome to May! Summer, and physical sunshine, is definitely on the way… Today’s Mental Sunshine is all about making a change. I don’t mean changing your job or moving to a new town. I’m talking about small changes we can all make right now. The kind of change that might seem insignificant And it might

We are officially in Bank Holiday season – a series of four-day weeks! Hopefully we’ll even have some sunshine too! This week’s Mental Sunshine is all about making the most of the lighter evenings. It’s free and really easy to do. Now that the clocks have gone forward, we have lighter evenings – and hopefully

For today’s Mental Sunshine, I want to ask you a question: What are you relying on, to make you happy? If you are feeling good today because the sun is shining… what will you do when it rains? You’re happy because your family are around you – but what if they moved away? If you’re

This week’s Mental Sunshine is all about working with tech. I know I’ve sent emails before suggesting we might benefit from limiting screen time… But I’m a realist and I know you were probably on a social media app this morning before you’d even had breakfast! The problem with social media is that some very