8Wise®: The Complete Blueprint for Optimal Mental Health and Wellbeing
Creating healthier, happier minds, lives, and education organisations.
Helping people, leaders, and educators build optimal mental health and wellbeing through The 8Wise® Method – the complete blueprint for healthier, happier minds and lives. At 8Wise®, we believe everyone deserves access to practical tools that support better mental health and wellbeing. Our unique 8Wise® Method helps people, leaders, and educators build optimal wellbeing across eight interconnected dimensions of life: Emotional, Physical, Spiritual, Intellectual, Social, Environmental, Occupational, and Financial. Created by Psychotherapist, Author and Wellbeing Consultant Kim Rutherford, 8Wise® bridges the gap between mental health awareness and real-world action, helping you understand yourself, manage stress, build resilience, and live a healthier, happier life. Through our books, courses, podcast, and training, and our education programme 8WiseED®, we’re helping individuals and organisations make mental health a daily practice, not just a policy. Whether you want to strengthen your own wellbeing or create a culture of care in your school, workplace, or community, 8Wise® gives you the blueprint to make it happen. Because optimal mental health and wellbeing can be learned, built, and lived. Delivered in partnership with Dalton Wise Consultancy Ltd, specialists in wellbeing strategy, training, and leadership development across the education and workplace sectors.
10/10/2025
World Mental Health Day 2025
Today is a reminder that you don’t have to face things alone.
If you’re struggling with your mental health please, reach out for help.
There is support out there, and you deserve to access it.
Whether you’re feeling low, overwhelmed, anxious, or lost, talking to someone can make a difference. even if it’s just a small first step.
Here are some organisations that can help right now:
Samaritans — Call 116 123 (free, 24/7)
Shout — Text SHOUT to 85258 for free, confidential text support
Mind — Call 0300 123 3393 or visit mind.org.uk
CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) — Call 0800 58 58 58 or visit thecalmzone.net
Papyrus — Call 0800 068 4141 or text 07860 039967 for support with suicidal thoughts (for young people)
NHS 111 (option 2) — for urgent mental health help
If you can, check in with someone today, you never know how much it might mean.
And if it’s you who needs that check-in, please don’t wait. Help is there.
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05/09/2025
Join Us on the Journey
This week we launched 8WiseED® and this is just the beginning.
We believe every education provider deserves access to the tools that make mental fitness a core part of culture.
Whether you’re a leader looking for strategy, a teacher needing classroom tools, or a student who deserves better support, 8WiseED® is here for you.
Education is demanding and too often, wellbeing support arrives too late.
Mental fitness means building the skills to manage challenges before they become crises.
With 8WiseED®, schools can:
1. Reduce staff stress and sickness
2. Support student resilience and achievement
3. Create healthier, more balanced cultures
When we treat wellbeing as essential, not optional, everyone thrives.
✨ Leaders → Build resilience and create effective whole-school strategies
✨ Staff → Gain strategies to manage pressure and avoid burnout.
✨ Teachers → Access toolkits to support students’ mental fitness
✨ Students → Learn practical skills to build mental fitness and self-belief.
There are lots of wellbeing initiatives out there but here’s why 8WiseED® is different:
💡 It’s not just about stress management.
💡 It goes beyond crisis response.
💡 It uses the 8 key elements to address the whole person and whole-school.
From emotional resilience to financial stress, from social connection to occupational balance, 8WiseED® gives education providers a practical framework to tackle the root causes of poor mental health.
Because prevention matters just as much as recovery.
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01/09/2025
Launch Day and We Are Live!
We’re so excited to share that 8WiseED® is officially live, bringing the science-backed 8Wise® Method into schools, colleges, and universities.
Why?
Because wellbeing in education shouldn’t be about firefighting, reactive quick fixes. It needs to be about proactive and preventative forms of mental fitness, practical tools that build resilience, confidence, and balance for leaders, staff, teachers, and students.
You’ve completed 50 days of conscious living, reflection, and personal reset.
Today’s final prompt:
“What positive action do I want to carry forward and what am I ready to leave behind?”
This isn’t an end, it’s a transition. Use what you’ve learned to shape the next chapter of your wellness journey.
You’ve proven you can do the work. Now the question is: What’s your next step?
Hopefully it is to join the movement and keep living the 8Wise Way for a Healthier Happier Mind and Life!
Thank you for being part of the 8Wise Summer Reset
31/08/2025
Day 49 of your 8Wise Summer Reset
Let’s take a moment to reflect.
Over the past 5 weeks, you’ve taken small, intentional actions toward living the 8Wise Way.
Today’s reflection prompt:
“What’s changed internally or externally since I began my 8Wise journey?”
It might be subtle. A shift in how you think. A calmer start to your day. More compassion for yourself.
Pause, acknowledge it, and give yourself credit for showing up.
Even a small change can spark new motivation.
JOIN THE MOVEMENT NOW - LIVE THE 8 WISE WAY FOR A HEALTHIER HAPPIER LIFE!
Share how you’re living the 8Wise Way today!
30/08/2025
Day 48 of your 8Wise Summer Reset
Let’s talk Financial Wellness!
Review your recent spending with kindness. No shame, just information. What felt aligned? What didn’t? Awareness fuels better choices.
Even a small change can spark new motivation.
JOIN THE MOVEMENT NOW - LIVE THE 8 WISE WAY FOR A HEALTHIER HAPPIER LIFE!
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Learning to manage your mental health, is a lot like learning to mange your bathtub - you need to make sure it doesn't all over flow and cause additional mess in other areas of your life.
My name is Kim, I have had my own mental health struggles, and in my role as a coach and therapist, and through my business, I support you to mange your stress bathtub, and all the issues it creates: Anxiety, Burnout, Career transition, Depression, Panic Attacks, Phobias, Relaxation, Self Esteem, Self-Defeating Behaviours, Wellness, Work-Life Balance, Work related stress, Work performance and productivity
No matter who you are, or where you are in your life, stress can come at you in an abundance, from all directions; home, work, kids, colleagues, friends, family, strangers, social media, etc.
It's very easy for your bathtub to over flow, so together we;
1. identify where the stress is coming from (triggers)
2. develop effective ways to release and problem solve the stress and related issues (tools)
3. develop a solution focussed plan to prevent anything escalating further (mental health)
4. put you back in control of your mental health and mental capacity
This working approach will lead you to reduced stress and anxiety, improved wellness and wellbeing and prevent long term mental and physical health issues from occurring.
I’m a scouse-bumpkin, which means I am approachable, practical, straight talking and have a sense of humour. This linked to my experience as a counsellor, therapist, leadership coach, hypnotherapist, senior manager and trainer, ensures I will support you to tackle yesterday's issues, today's problems and tomorrow's stresses effectively, using and integrative therapeutic approach alongside my unique 8 Wise model. I guarantee a safe, empathetic, non judgemental and confidential environment, either at my office, or virtually via Zoom or FaceTime.
I believe you have the power to improve your wellness and wellbeing and live a fulfilling, happier life, and I appreciate it can feel difficult to accomplish alone. So me and my team are here to support you, and put you firmly back in control of living the life you want.
Don’t suffer alone, get in touch and move forward positively with your life.
For more information check out my website: www.daltonwise.co.uk
or email me at: info@daltonwise.co.uk
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