Before delving into the "how to" of setting healthy boundaries, it's essential to recognize their significance in your life. Healthy boundaries help you preserve your mental and emotional well-being: Setting boundaries safeguards your emotional and mental health by preventing unnecessary stress, resentment, and burnout.

All that is going on around us, we can internalise and experience as a sense of tension and unease. Improving health and wellbeing is imperative right now precisely because of all the difficulty that surrounds us. The most valuable asset we can possibly have in hard times is the physical and mental resilience that health and wellbeing provide.

If we break this task down into its different dimensions we can discover how a step-by-step, holistic approach can yield transformative results.

The phrase 'balancing work and family' has become a bit of an empty mantra for many of our clients who are struggling to maintain harmony between their professional and personal lives. Who amongst us really feels like work and life are truly “balanced” on any given day?

By striving after that ideal we are often setting ourselves up for disappointment, because life’s demands come in unpredictable spurts and surges.

Getting the balance right means we are neglecting neither work or family needs over time, sometimes over a whole lifetime.

Have you ever experienced depression? Or been close to someone who has been through it? If you’ve answered yes to either question then you don’t need me to describe the magnitude of the suffering it puts people through. Simply put, it’s like being locked into a psychological box of hell.

Research gives us a wealth of examples of how we can make stressful situations better and not worse and we need to know what they are.

Knowledge is power, and a stress management course should leave a person feeling like next time they find stress levels ratcheting up at work and in life, that they know exactly what is happening, what to do, and which path to head down.

Stress Management courses can be a mixed bag. I’ve heard horror stories of trainers handing out fidget spinners, telling delegates that when they are feeling overwhelmed they should just to think ‘Swan Legs’ (from what I can gather that means pretend outwardly that things are going smoothly and are under control, while under the surface you must paddle away like mad to try to meet all the demands placed on you)