The Spark Blog
Category: mental health
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How to Talk to Children About Mental Health
In part 2 of our Time to Talk Day series, we are continuing to look at how to talk to children about mental health. Each year Time to Talk Day encourages adults to start conversations about mental health with friends, family and co-workers. This year, The Spark is focusing on the tricky issue of how…
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Talking to Kids About Emotions
Each year Time to Talk Day encourages us to open up and talk about our emotions and mental health. This year we are looking at how parents can talk to their kids about mental health. Specifically, tips for grown-ups on the tricky issue of talking to kids about emotions. As a leading provider of counselling…
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How to Cope with the Winter Blues – Part 3
In the final part of The Spark’s ‘How to cope with the winter blues’ series, we’re offering a few more tips on keeping your mood up when the sun is going down. You can catch up with part 1 and part 2 where we looked at how a ‘sexy raincoat’, not being Gordon Gekko and…
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How to Cope with the Winter Blues – Part 2
Welcome to part 2 of The Spark’s ‘How to cope with the winter blues’ series offering our tips on ways to defeat the winter blues. Catch up on part 1 of ‘How to cope with the winter blues’ where we looked at how embracing the winter season, taking up a new indoor pastime and ignoring…
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How to Cope with the Winter Blues – Part 1
When the days start getting shorter and the nights longer, many people start to feel their mood drop. Unlike Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) – a form of clinical depression – the ‘winter blues’ is a general term for the feelings of sadness and lethargy we can all experience as the temperature drops and the memories…
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The Midlife Crisis: Fact or Fiction?
Our society has evolved to make light of and trivialise the midlife crisis; the middle-aged man in his red sports car is lampooned, the middle-aged woman with a much younger partner is frowned upon and neither is offered a sympathetic ear. We have come to assume it is just a flimsy excuse for erratic or…
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Coping with a midlife crisis
In part 2 of our series looking at coping with a midlife crisis, Counsellor Janet Balcombe examines the features of this midlife transition and some techniques we can employ to deal with the mental and emotional impact. Catch up on part 1 which looked at whether the midlife crisis is just an excuse for erratic…
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Re-learning How to Cope with Loss and Bereavement
We constantly live in a state of change and loss is sadly an inevitable part of that process. While we most often associate loss with bereavement, our lives are full of losses; jobs, relationships, or as we have all experienced recently, the loss of freedom and opportunity. Generally, when a loss occurs, we are used…
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Can Anger be Positive and Useful?
Anger gets bad press. It is linked with aggression and violence. Anger can get us into embarrassing scrapes or trouble. We feel very uncomfortable when we get angry and sometimes find it hard to manage. Often people will describe anger as a negative emotion, but perhaps there is another way of looking at anger. Can…
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