Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “mental health”
By Christopher Spriggs of ‘Heads Up Now‘ Think of a brain. What does it look like? A deflated leather football perhaps, or a wrinkled bottom. It’s probably not our most attractive physical feature so thank goodness it’s tucked away inside our skull. It’s amazing what that ‘deflated football’ contains isn’t it? A quadrillion neural connections (that’s a one with 15 …
By Christopher Spriggs of ‘Heads Up Now’ With the formal point-scoring track and field events done – where dozens of children had hurdled, shot and sprinted for all their worth – it came to the final novelty event of the day: a three-legged race. The temptation to strap an ankle to that of another person and dash fifty metres was …
By Christopher Spriggs of Heads Up Now They kept coming, so we kept cheering. Sometimes they were solo, sometimes they ran in clusters, feet kicking up dust, shadows shrunken by a fierce sun. Each person had a race number pinned to their front, a number now blotted by sweat, dirt and water. Their number as indecipherable as their thoughts or …
By Christopher Spriggs of ‘Heads Up Now’ I want to talk about anger, because we are confused by this. I’ve worked as a coach with hundreds of teenagers, and many adults, over the last 20 years and this issue comes up a lot. Especially for us guys, but not exclusively. It is not “anger management” that we need, it is …
