Care jobs are paid, and paid badly. The caring inside them, the noticing and the staying, was never priced at all. Why that matters in every workplace, not only in care.
Hi there, Here's my weekly update for Sep 14, 2026... 🗒️ The system knows what to do. It just won't do it. Work-related stress has had a legal duty, HSE standards and an ISO standard for years.The Birmingham University letter shows the gap was never...
Awareness days, wellbeing apps and mental health first aid are now an industry. A psychologist says it keeps an unwell system running. Where he is right, and where I part company.
I’m not a psychologist, town planner or social scientist but a glaringly obvious contributor to poor mental wellbeing in the UK must be the ugliness of much of our built environments. Add in grey weather, financial h...
Work-related stress has had a legal duty, HSE standards and an ISO standard for years. The Birmingham University letter shows the gap was never knowledge. It's enforcement.
Richard Murphy asks who carries the cost of adapting to decisions made elsewhere. At work that cost gets called resilience, and it's handed to the wrong person.
In this episode of Inside Out: Mental Health at Work and in Life, I'm joined by Justin Ray, a psychiatric nurse practitioner in Virginia. Justin owns South Chesapeake Psychiatry and Transforming Minds Interventional Psychiatry, and is the provider fo...
Politicians say the social contract is broken and point at benefit claimants. Fifty years of falling wages, zero-hours work and a hiring freeze point somewhere else.
In this episode of Inside Out: Mental Health at Work and in Life, I'm joined by Eloise Skinner, an existential psychotherapist, former corporate lawyer and fitness teacher. Eloise spent five years in corporate tax law before retraining as a psychoth...
A Message from the Editor,Sonia Last 📝Well, there she goes… Midsummer has sashayed past us on her way south. It's always bitter-sweet to see the trail of lush greens and warm breezes she leaves in her wake, but Autumn is stalking the fields in his r...
Confidence isn't brought to work. It's made and unmade there, by the design of the job and by the first manager. What our community and the Civil Service show.
In this episode of Inside Out: Mental Health at Work and in Life, I'm joined by Charmian Johnson, a former global law firm partner, now founder of Charm Johnson Coaching and a Partner of The Mental Wellbeing Company. Through nervous system-aware trai...
A Message from the Editor,Sonia Last 📝Everything is flourishing - the gardens, allotments and wild places. If only we were satisfied with so little. A shower of rain, a cool breeze and the warm afternoon sunshine does wonders for the flora and fauna...
A Message from the Editor,Sonia Last 📝 Well summer has rolled out her green carpet in spectacular style and threatens to overwhelm our senses with exuberance and joie de vivre. How lucky we are to experience these exhilarating days, which like the f...
A Message from the Editor,Sonia Last 📝Tradition dictates that we wash our face in the morning dew on May 1st to ensure good health and beauty. If this didn't appeal, throughout May you could light a bonfire, dance around a maypole or leave an offeri...
