Category: Health & Wellbeing

Looking after your mental health during the festive period

Dorset Mind volunteer Annabel Goddard suggests a pause for reflection and gratitude during the darkest months of the year As the year draws to a...

Are you able to offer a little help or support for Dorset’s care leavers?

Dorset Council is calling for the local community, organisations and businesses to back care-experienced young adults as they transition to adulthood.Care leavers often face...

No deadline for grief

Dorset Mind volunteer Annabel Goddard provides an insight into supporting the many complex emotions of suicide bereavement Trigger warning: this article contains themes of suicide...

Winter wellness: how to keep your immune system strong

Expert Karen Geary has your winter immunity essentials: how sleep, gut health, stress reduction and movement are bugging you The kids are back at school,...

Healthy eating on a tight budget

Another season feeling the pinch at the check-out?Expert Karen Geary shares some smart strategies for eating well and wasting less Maintaining a nutritious diet often...

It’s time for action

Ahead of World Mental Health Day, Dorset Mind volunteer Annabel Goddard emphasises the importance of taking back your mental health As a nation we seem...

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School’s out for summer

With 68 wins and a personal best for Joe, it’s finally turnout time at the Tizzard Yard – and the spring pressure-washing begins … The...

A bee utopia on Pentridge Hill

From a wild hilltop to a suburban garden, Jane Adams watches the quiet lives of Dorset’s snow leopards: the ashy mining bee From Pentridge Hill,...

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