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Mental Health and Wellbeing
These blogs highlight tools, insights, and stories that help strengthen mental health and promote everyday wellbeing.


Stress Happens!
At the time of writing, the Caribbean superyacht season is in full swing and the Mediterranean season is looming just around the corner in a few months time. It can be a stressful time for any crew, from the most senior to the most junior - and we could all do with a little help to manage stress and our response to it.

Rachel Smith
Feb 102 min read


Women's health
Women’s health is a huge topic, while it’s true that in the maritime sector women make up just 2% of seafarers at sea, up to 34% of the shore based staff are female. Looking at the bigger picture, women’s health directly affects just under half of our population globally, and indirectly (whether you like it or not!) the other half, we thought it was worth a blog about some of the issues, and the taboo’s, that could be affecting our maritime workforce and the women in our live

Rachel Smith
Jul 3, 20245 min read


Reflective Practice and why it’s so important
Reflective practice first developed in medicine, teaching and social work as a way to learn from real life experiences. It’s your way of thinking about everything that has happened in an incident, event or time frame and what went right and wrong. It’s the opportunity to ask yourself whether you would or could do anything differently if faced with the same situation again.

Rachel Smith
Feb 21, 20247 min read


Dry January!
It’s well known that New Year resolutions don’t last. Forbes magazine tells us that 21% don’t make their resolution stick for even a month. While 34% state that it lasted for between one and three months.

Rachel Smith
Jan 2, 20244 min read


Burnout
The definition of Burnout is ‘a state of emotional, physical and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. It occurs when you feel overwhelmed, emotionally drained and unable to meet constant demands.’

Rachel Smith
Oct 18, 20235 min read


Stress related procrastination
I know when I am getting stressed. I can recognise the feelings almost instantly.

Liz Baugh
Jul 14, 20213 min read


Hard as nails or just a secret softy?
And I am back on the ambulances.....
and it was not how I expected it to be.

Liz Baugh
May 21, 20214 min read


Life at sea during a pandemic The ramblings of John Dunn - an HSE Offshore Medic
You can change a day in the life of a seafarer to a “groundhog day” in the life of a seafarer.

Liz Baugh
Apr 1, 20212 min read
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