Vitamin D – the sunshine vitamin
Could you be low in Vitamin D? Vitamins are organic compounds that we all need to stay healthy. We usually only need small quantities and quite often we can get as much as we need by having a healthy diet.…
Time to Talk Day: Widening the conversation through social media
What is Time to Talk day? Time to Talk day is a national campaign focusing on mental health and the conversations we have about it. It encourages us to share our experiences, ask others how they feel and to destigmatise…
Living without chronic pain: our new Pain Recovery Clinic
The chances are that you will have experienced physical pain at some point in your life. You may have injured yourself, pulled a muscle, twisted an ankle or hurt your back. You’ll be able to empathise with someone who has…
Ghosts of Christmas past: How to manage grief
This article, Ghosts of Christmas Past, was written by our counsellor Vicky Warburton (pictured right) and first published on the Counselling Directory website on 5th December 2021 Our tables over Christmas are packed with life, young and old but often…
Pay it forward this Christmas with a gift voucher
Our gift vouchers allow you to give a gift of relaxation and indulgence to someone special this Christmas. You can purchase a voucher for a relaxing massage, an aromatherapy treatment, reflexology or any treatment listed on our website. What’s even better, you don’t need to go anywhere…
How a professional acupuncturist practices self-care
I work six days a week between two jobs, one in a corporate setting and the other as an acupuncturist here at Phoenix Health and Wellbeing With such a busy life self-care is something I have to be particularly aware…
What’s in your stress bucket?
This week is National Stress Awareness Week. The theme this year is emotional stress. When is stress not emotional? It is possible to have things that cause physical stress or emotional stress or both. So, for example physical stress might…
Self-care What does it mean to you?
The term self-care has been popping up all over the place in the last few years. Especially in regards to looking after your own mental health. It can be interpreted in many different ways but is often seen accompanying photos…
Paying it forward
Paying it forward can encompass all kinds of kindness. It could be literally paying it forward - there was a trend of patrons at a coffee shop drive-thru paying for the order of the people behind them. Or it could…
Make your own insect repellent!
The weather forecasters are making much of a heatwave that is on its way to bathe us in glorious sunshine. After all of the rain we have just had this will be music to the ears of flying pests like…