Health & Wellbeing
For OCD Awareness Week (13 to 19 October), Paul Carter from Civil Service HR interviewed leading OCD therapist Katie d’Ath to raise awareness of Purely Obsessional OCD, a form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
On World Mental Health Day, Civil Service Health and Wellbeing Champion Jonathan Jones highlights the need to look after each other's welfare as well as our own.
Madeleine Alessandri introduces the new guide to ‘Managing Work-Related Trauma’, with guidance for frontline, operational and specialist teams on operating in potentially traumatic work environments.
Disability Champion Philip Rutnam tells us what he learned during Migraine Awareness Week and introduces Linda, who writes about her experience of living with migraines.
The award-winning Team Chaffinch share some fun and easy ways to take care of your wellbeing, from the new and improved A-Z to Better Wellbeing toolkit.
Zamila Bunglawala explains why the Civil Service has joined up with The Migraine Trust for Migraine Awareness Week.
Civil Service Health and Wellbeing Champion Jonathan Jones requests your feedback on what worked well for you in Active Wellbeing Week.
Civil servant Charlotte Kume-Holland offers a personal reflection on how we can understand our own mental health and ways we can take care of it.
After two years promoting health and wellbeing in the Civil Service through Team Chaffinch, its outgoing leader, Gail Peck, sets out the six most important things she's learnt.
Philip Rutnam introduces Rosie's account of living and working with the relatively common but little-known condition of Sensory Processing - or High - Sensitivity.