The Benefits of Plants for Health & Happiness

This World Wellbeing Week we at Leapfrog are talking about the benefits of bringing the outside in. Even the least green-fingered of us likes to open a bunch of flowers or a plant and busy ourselves...

A Toolkit for Tackling Test Anxiety

Summer has begun: the evenings are lighter and flowers are in full bloom. However, for many children and young people May, June and July usher in a time of year that can be daunting and stressful: exam...

How A Hypnotherapist Deals With Anxiety

This Mental Health Awareness Week (15th-23rd May 2023) the theme is anxiety. How to recognise an anxious episode? Anxiety commonly involves tension, panic or nervousness, tearfulness or trouble sleeping, but it can also result in an increase in heart...

How To Stop Stress-Related Hair Loss

It’s likely that most of us have at some point since the pandemic began been tearing our hair out. As it turns out, the phrase that weaves stress, anxiety and hair loss together is alarmingly accurate....

Every Breath You Take Impacts Your Health

Take a deep breath. Was it through your nose or mouth? One is much more valuable than the other for optimum health – but do you know which? On average, we all take around 20,000...

The Secret To Less Stress & More Sleep

Sleep is the bedrock of good health. Without it, we feel irritable and unproductive. A 2022 Stada study has found that UK adults sleep worse than the rest of Europe, so what’s keeping us awake...