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Gut Health Affects Sleep, Here’s How To Improve Yours!

25th March 2022

Sleep – the elixir of life. Many of us already know the importance of good quality sleep and we’re aware of the disrupting influences of caffeine, screen use and stress. Check out this...

International Day of Happiness

18th March 2022

This year, the theme is ‘Build Back Happier’, which will focus on the global recovery from the Covid pandemic. A must for us all? But how can you play a part of why do we celebrate the...

Are you getting enough sleep?

7th March 2022

Sleep plays a vital role in good health and wellbeing throughout our lives. Getting enough, quality sleep, will help protect our mental health, physical health, quality of life, and safety. It also...

Self-Care Practices for Every Area of Your Life

7th February 2022

Self-care is the process of taking care of yourself with activities that promote health whether that be physical or mental. Individuals engage in some form of self-care practices daily with food...

Eat Better and Move More 2022 Resolutions!

20th January 2022

Weight loss, weight management and eat better resolutions are all associated with the new year! Along with sitting less, moving move and getting fitters? Is a healthier lifestyle a goal for you?...

Holistic Wellbeing – Physical and Mental Health Goals!

10th January 2022

Setting a goal and sticking to it can be tough! On average 80% of us abandon our New Year’s resolutions every year, but why is this? The main reason is because we are not mapping ways to get to the...

Using Positivity to Boost Your Wellbeing (PART 2)

20th December 2021

To recap on Part 1 we covered the Positivity Ratio, the PERMA model, Ways to Wellbeing and then I shared some tips to help you boost your wellbeing. There’s one other point I’d like to make about...

Using Positivity to Boost Your Wellbeing (PART 1)

2nd December 2021

Positivity is probably a word you’ve heard more in recent years. It sounds good, doesn’t it? Upbeat. Optimistic. Happy. But it isn’t blindly thinking positively about everyone and...

Tonic Workplace Health Checks! #knowyournumbers

1st December 2021

Health checks in the workplace have to be part of the new normal if supporting and optimising employee mental and physical health is on your agenda. The most successful companies know that employee...

How can you combat chronic stress at work?

24th November 2021

Tonic believes that stress is the single most concerning health and safety issue in the workplace in recent times, now more than ever post the pandemic. We all experience negative stress and for...

The Real Health Benefits of a Workplace Massage!

3rd November 2021

If you are looking for proof that a massage will improve your health, you’ll have no trouble finding research to back this up. We’ve got lots from our 17 years experience of delivering workplace...

How Seasonal Changes Can Affect Your Mood

8th October 2021

With it being Autumn, we are going to look at ways seasonal changes can affect your mood and how we cannot just survive but thrive! There are many ways to fend off autumn viruses and colds and keep...

The Importance of Mental Health Self-Care

8th October 2021

Self-care is something that everyone should practice but what it is can be different depending on the individual. Practising self-care is all about physical and mental wellbeing and it should be a...

Five Ways Managers Can Support Employee Mental Health

1st October 2021

Never has mental health been so important than now. With the pandemic causing and amplifying stress levels and uncertainty people’s mental health has been severely tested – especially in the...

“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf”

6th September 2021

A lovely quote from Jon Kabat-Zinn, who is of course referring to the inevitability of stress. We can’t avoid it, but we can learn how to bounce back after exposure to it. This is resilience. For...

Why Trying to Relax Can Be Stressful

30th August 2021

Have you ever tried to relax but just found yourself getting more stressed because you simply can’t unwind – don’t worry, it happens to all of us. In this article, we look at some of the reasons...

DIGESTION, STRESS & RELAXATION…

3rd August 2021

Many people are unaware just how much our state of mind affects our digestion. When we’re stressed, our bodies enter fight-or-flight mode and the stress hormones stop our digestive systems from...

What to expect at your Tonic Reward Day!

19th July 2021

If you are looking for a highly effective way to engage your team, we say that offering a ‘reward day’ is a great place to start! But what can you expect on a Tonic Reward Day?

Eat yourself happy!

11th June 2021

In our last blog we looked at how what we eat can really improve our energy levels. We’re sticking with the food theme but this time let’s talk about how nutrition affects our mental...