Category: Dealing with Negative Emotions
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Managing Stress for Leaders
Guest Blog by Lade Olugbemi You will agree with me that 65% of the productive times in our lives is spent at work. Like we have always advocated at The NOUS, we all have a responsibility towards each other. Leaders especially have a duty of care towards staff or members of community that we lead.…
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Jealousy – Letting go of this negative emotion
One of the ways jealousy comes is when we feel something we have is threatened. People are more inclined to think that women are the ones most susceptible to jealousy. But men can get equally jealous too. King Saul was so consumed with jealousy so much that it became his favourite pastime. In the case of…
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5 Steps to Beating the Monday Blues
It is Monday again. And does it not come so quick after the weekend? Most people associate Monday as the most ‘depressing’ day of the week. After a restful, long or busy weekend, it is time to get back to the grind be it work or school. But what can we do to avoid that Monday…
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Mental Illness and Living Alone
Mental illness and living alone can be one of the most challenging part of the illness. I lived alone for fourteen years before I got married. The challenges I faced I seldom completed tasks. If no one was chasing me up about something, then I would say that task was often considered undone or unfinished.…
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Fear, Anxiety, And Worry
Fear, anxiety and worry are close relatives. Fear is the most crippling of them. It was fear that defeated the Assyrians when King Sennacharib of Assyria came against King Hezekiah after forcing a ransom of all the gold and silver in the House of the Lord and King Hezekiah’s treasuries . The Angel of the…
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Don’t be lonely this Christmas
Don’t be lonely this Christmas! In 2013, Campaign to End Loneliness surveyed 1,000 UK General Practitioners (GP), i.e. doctors looking at loneliness and health in their patients. Here are some of their findings: Over three quarters of the GPs we spoke to said they were seeing between one and five lonely people a day. One in…