Keeping Burnout at Bay – How Knowing Yourself can Help.
Have you ever felt like you’re carrying the world on your shoulders and that no matter what you do and how hard you work, you just can’t seem to get ahead of your daily to-do list? Does work sometimes leave you feeling intensely demotivated and overwhelmed? Answered yes to any of these questions? You could…
Looking After Your Mental Health At Work
We all need a little help sometimes. It might surprise you that nearly one in seven people worldwide suffer from mental health issues. With the advent of COVID-19 and remote working, and the strain placed on people returning to work after isolation and loss, looking after one’s mental health in the workplace is more important…
Making A Few Small Changes At Home That Lead To Big Changes At Work
We all do our best to try and manage our work lives every day, but it’s a fast-paced, at times chaotic world out there, and we’re not always prepared for what it can throw at us. Getting the best out of each day can be nearly impossible if you’re not in the right frame of…
Show Yourself Some Love This Valentines Day
It’s that time of year again, Valentine’s Day. The season of love is upon us, in all its chocolatey, heart-covered glory. When everyone is coupling up, there is one kind of love that gets overlooked: self-love. You know what I’m talking about. All too often, we focus on others and everything around us, and neglect…
4 Tips for Tackling Workplace Anxiety
Chris Harley is a mental health professional based in San Francisco. He is passionate about improving the lives of others and combines his PhD in Clinical Psychology with the latest holistic and wellbeing therapies to provide the very best care for individuals seeking to improve their mental health. Besides practicing as a mental health professional,…
5 Courses to mark World Mental Health Day
This week includes World Mental Health Day, a day on which attention is drawn to our mental wellbeing and that of others. After the pandemic and the struggles that have come with it, it’s perhaps a more important day than in years past. To mark World Mental Health Day, we’ve compiled a list of five…
The Business of Mental Health
A successful leader in business will always have a lot on their plate. With all of the duties that come with such a position, it can be easy to lose sight of more intangible issues affecting the bottom line of your business, such as the mental health of employees. So to help our entrepreneurial Learners…
4 Simple Steps to Improve Your Mental Health
Mental health is a vitally important aspect of all of our lives. Unfortunately, it’s quite poorly understood. There are a lot of misconceptions around the topic, and it’s easy to get swept away by it all. To make things easier and clearer, we’ve put together four simple steps you can take to improve your mental…
Rebecca Melone: “Not only is Alison free but you can study from anywhere at...
Rebecca Melone is an Alison graduate from South Africa. She shares her story of loss and lifelong learning with the Alison Blog. “My name is Rebecca Melone. I am a South African, born and bred. After high school, I had no direction and I wasted a lot of time. Eventually, I took a job with…
Wanda Suzanne Johnson: “It’s time to learn new skills and move on.”
“My name is Wanda Suzanne Johnson. I saw your school and decided it was time to further my education at age of 50. My husband and I have worked chicken farms for 30 years, it’s definitely time to learn new skills and move on.” How did you learn about Alison? I learned about Alison through…
