Just Being Human Counselling

05/09/2025

Completely aligned with the need for increased availability for young people to have Mental Health Support sooner and more available… 🙏🏼

We also need to move our thinking one step further and work out the changing humanistic psychological thrive factors that are not being met, ignited or even noticed within young people..

Let me explain.. as a young person of the 80’s my beliefs and ideals of high achievement through education, getting that dream job and buying your own home was a defining psychological thrive factors.. once achieved it felt good.. it was what i was programmed to think was successful… 🙏🏼

These ideals for our young are now nearly next to non achieveable in today’s world due to the fact they’d have no personal life around earning to forfill these ideals…

Our young people of today are shifting their mindsets around what makes them happy too and we need to acknowledge and work with this… They honour human health not material wealth..

Many of us are beginning to understand that we want to connect to our passions and purpose too .. Coming back to our human selves..🦋

Young people do not want to spend their time burning out, to not be able to afford life anyway because its often got so very not achievable…

The powerful words i hear in my room a lot are ‘whats the point’…

We’re making our young mentally unfit and something has to change because it will anyway…

Lets start focussing less on material greed, look emotionally intellectually at the economy and include focus on connected human psychological thrive factors for our young in industry… if we do those percentages might be more agreeable to read for 2026 - 2030 .. 🙏🏼🦋

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02/09/2025

Tuesday Reflections with Maltemarten from instagram.. 🙏🏼🦋

Find activities, events, adventures and travel that fill your Soul .. 🌺

When we talk about thriving psychologically, its that complete immersed and deeply content feeling you sense when doing something that lights up your soul.. ✨

You will have material items around you that you’ve worked particularly hard for and why not.. the only downside is that you cannot take them with you as your soul moves forwards..

So fill your soul and take all the beautiful memories, experiences, love and light within it..

Try not to over fill your hands and fill your soul instead.. you will feel a whole lot of difference in your psychological well being … 🙏🏼🦋

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22/07/2025

Compassion can be confused with kindness.. Kind acts, such as remembering someone's birthday are often associated with happiness. They tend not to require courage or engagement with suffering, whilst compassion always does (Gilbert et al., 2019).

We say ‘kindness costs nothing', the engagement aspect means that compassion might… this could explain the 'Good Samaritan' study (Darley & Batson, 1973), in which the researchers got 90 per cent of students on their way to prepare a talk on the ‘Good Samaritan’ to ignore a man slumped in an alleyway, simply by manipulating their sense of 'hurriness'. A competing motive (desire for achievement or threat of task failure) reduced compassionate responding.

We need enough Self Awareness skill to understand which of our internal processes take priority, where they come from (childhood programming and learning) and how to not let a ‘competing motive’ enable us to move to a non compassionate mindset, behaviour or response..

In research around ‘Self Compassion’ it shows that people who are more compassionate towards themselves tend to experience better psychological health, reduced anxiety, rumination and perfectionism, lower levels fear of failure and depression, less struggle with unwanted thoughts and a greater willingness to accept negative emotions. These humans may also be better able to cope with adversity and be more likely to look after themselves by making positive life changes..

The AMPS study shows human Mental Health unfitness is increasing and the most effected are our young people, we need to focus on strategies, mindset building and behaviours that promote good Mental Health Fitness and protective human factors for prevention … it seems to me that adopting ‘Compassion’ and ‘Self Compassion’ and living within ‘Mindfulness practices’ may be an important ingredient to supporting these stark findings… 🙏🏼

Eight suggestions in the visuals below to start a compassionate mindset journey..

Thank you to the inspiring Professor Paul Gilbert OBE FBPsS, PhD, a Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Derby for his dedication, research and work.. and the visual ‘Elements of Compassion’..
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18/07/2025

I attended the ‘Mental Health in Context - Research, Policy and Practice’ conference at the British Academy in London on the 10th July..

Key Mental Health Personnel sharing the content of the ‘Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey’..

My intention to share research findings and learning with my Associate team, enhancing our own Practice and Provision.. 🙏🏼🦋

Key findings are highlighted in photo’s below:

🌺 The Percentage of adults experiencing Mental Health unfitness is rising, more so for females, young people and the elderly…The proportion of adults diagnosed with Adhd is also rising..
🦋Could there be a link, is the human mind evolving so that a healthier and more inclusive humanistic way of supporting our economy is found…

🌺Young adults remain a key group. The proportion of young adults (aged 16 to 24), with a common mental health condition, rose from 17.5% in 2007 to 25.8% in 2023/4..
🦋Our young have much more Mental Health Awareness and knowledge.. possibly experiencing and seeing the current socially constructed systems as mind unhealthy, not inclusive and actually can feel unachievable ..

🌺Socioeconomic inequalities in mental health persist…Adults with a problem with debt and those who were not in employment were more likely to have a common mental health condition…
🦋Systems not allowing humans to reach their full professional potential, may incite feelings of psychological failure current industry environments..
‘What’s the point’ is a powerful sentence that is uttered in my room, frequently….Are we turning off some of our young adults .. instead of psychologically activating them for work..

🌺Physical and mental health were strongly related…
🌺Mental health treatment use increased in prevalence.. treatment rose from 24.4% in 2007 and 39.4% in 2014, to 47.7% in 2023/4
🦋More of us are requiring Mental Health treatment.. how unhealthy are we going to allow this to get… learning self awarenes, how your Mental Health shows up for you seems, an imperative..

The speaker schedule was tremendous, full of experience..the subject matter intense… the delivery eloquent-thank you.
The list of speakers can be found in a photo below..🤩

Lovely to see Prof. Rory O'Connor again who is an inspiration for understanding his IVM model in research around Suicidal Behaviour (in photo below) and the highlight was a sublimely captivating and congruent account of an experience with Mental Health support throughout the years made by Mr Graham Morgan .. As Mr Morgan spoke his truth, everyone else (for me) in the room disappeared..

As Mr Morgan’s heartfelt words around his experience and his wish for improvement in supporting humans with MH Unfitness was loud and clear. Humans needing to be treated with respect, kindness, dignity and mindful care was a strong message..
We must do more.. we must ‘Be Human’.. allowing those in struggle to have space to mindfully move to thriving once again..

Thank you to Paul for attending with me 🫶🏼

17/07/2025

The data shared by Mental Health UK must be a Reflection point for Industry… 🙏🏼

Lets start asking the questions that allow us moments of contemplation and positive change..

Why ?

Why are 2 in 3 employees experiencing any symptoms of anxiety and depression..

If you are a business you will have a human element to it, all humans have the capacity for poor mental health.. yes that ALL humans in your organisations.. 🦋

As we raise our awareness and share information around human mental health and its impacts, we are growing knowledge and awareness about our humans…

With awareness it’s often an opportunity to see the systems, processes, cultures and ways of working that do not hold the psychological safety our employees now know they require to thrive… 🙏🏼

Acknowledging and moving positively with this awareness will bring business growth, good performance, connectivity and a goid level of workplace mental health fitness..

And the data isn’t suggesting that its all about the workplace as to why our humans are showing signs of poor Mental Health Fitness, its saying that our humans are now more aware of what they need to stay Mentally fit. Our workplaces need to understand humans Mental Health more and have the ability move with this shift… 🙏🏼🦋

Don’t ignore the data.. move a human consideration into everything you do in the workplace..

Mental Health Fitness for all employees.. 🫶🏼

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30/06/2025

Some guidance from the charity MIND around extreme heat, mental health supporting medications and human mood states..

Always reach out to your GP if experiencing any adverse symptoms in severe heat.. 🙏🏼

For furthet inirmation visit the MIND website at:

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/

Stay safe and cool out there .. 🙏🏼🦋

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For further information https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mind_2_here-comes-the-sun-remember-to-stay-safe-activity-7341061325604741138-Cu9N?utm_medium=ios_app&rcm=ACoAAEAadzYBzku8yALeZagujC2McYM_vxXNOUY&utm_source=social_share_video_v2&utm_campaign=copy_link

Here comes the sun 🌞 Remember to stay safe out there when taking medication, especially in heatwaves.

27/06/2025

Friday Reflections… 🙏🏼🦋

We move through our years of Training and hold a safe psychological space that aligns with membership Ethical and Regulatory requirements, however when your in the room with us we are two human souls navigating tough moments, human psychology and uncomfortable thoughts and feelings… 🌏

You will gain a psychologically safe, human experience at Just Being Human Counselling…🙏🏼🦋

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