Not so Blue Monday
Today is Monday 17th January 2022. Today marks almost one year to where I was in the worst state of depression I had been in some time. Today is not Blue Monday. Blue Monday is a marketing ploy. In 2005, …
Wellbeing
Our lockdown experiences...Reflections on living through a pandemic
Many of us have been working at home for several months now under lots of different circumstances. In March, with the first national lockdown it felt like a bit of a shock to the system knowing that we would be …
Our lockdown experiences... a parent and carer
I remember all too vividly, a month or so before lockdown turning to Amanda Smith, one of my peers, and saying - this is going to hit us - what are we going to do about it? Never in a …
Our lockdown experiences...the year of the trifle!
There is a meme doing the rounds on social media asking people to describe 2020 as a food. Many responses are typically foods that many came to despise as a child; however my response was a little more, um, quirky. …
Our lockdown experiences...A way to lighten up a meeting while looking after a baby during a pandemic
As a new mom and a new starter at MoJ, working and looking after a child during a global pandemic has not always been smooth sailing but there has been a lot of support and ways to get help from …
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