Positive or gentle parenting sometimes gets a bad press. Mainly because people can mistake it for parenting with no rules or boundaries. This really couldn’t be further from the truth. In positive or gentle parenting we prioritise our connection with children and...
Most of us know a colleague or someone in our circle who has suffered from occupational burnout. It’s a serious problem in industrial societies, with huge personal, social, relational and financial costs. We regularly see clients with symptoms of burnout at Compass...
Shinrin-yoku is a wellness and mindfulness technique that was developed in Japan in the 1980s. It means “forest bathing” or “taking in the forest atmosphere”. It originally emerged as an antidote to tech-boom burnout and to help people reconnect with and protect...
Hatty Francis-Ehnholm is one of the co-owners of Compass Psychology alongside Annabel Battersby. To find out more about Hatty’s professional background and the services she provides, you can read her Compass Psychology profile here. In this post, she will be...
Did you know that studies in medical science are heavily biassed towards outcomes seen in biological men (Criado-Perez, 2020)? Many animal studies that explore diseases and their treatments have been found to use only male animals. As well as this, randomised control...
