Alcohol awareness – Q&A with our addiction expert Shahroo Izadi Alcohol Awareness Week is 15-21 November this year. To mark it, we’re looking at the statistics on alcohol consumption in the UK. Shahroo Izadi, our expert on alcohol and addiction also answers a Q&A on alcohol awareness. What is alcoholism? Alcoholism is different to ‘harmful…
We’re offering free wellbeing sessions every Thursday for January and February – Pilates, yoga, meditation, breathwork, stress management and a posture 101. Don’t miss out!
We’re super excited to announce we’ve won the Best Employee Wellbeing Company in the UK in the Greater London Enterprise Awards 2020!
Stay Connected Wellbeing Webinars A tailored series of wellbeing webinars to help support your staff and keep everyone connected We’ve worked with an incredible team of experts to curate this series of webinars to help support yourself and your colleagues through this pandemic. We’re incredibly proud to be working with such a fantastic group of…
Your free wellbeing planner for 2020 – to keep your workplace happy, healthy and motivated.
Through simple lifestyle changes and engaging in screening programmes you can reduce your risk of developing cancer and improve your general wellbeing. Our specialist Gemma McCormick, an oncologist at the Royal Marsden shares her tips for reducing your risk:
Often we wait until we’re at the point of burnout, experiencing physical pain or have an injury before we’d consider booking a massage. Massages can feel indulgent, even selfish and we can end up criticising ourselves for not having the strength to deal with stress like our peers can. However, if we knew the surprising benefits of massage for both our mental and physical health, we might start viewing them as a necessity not just a treat.
Our co-founder Ruth ran a workshop for the Women’s Leadership Network at Mastercard this month on ‘Optimum foods for optimum health and performance’. She shares her top 5 tips for eating to fuel your body and mind in a busy workday.
Here at Elevate we don’t believe in quick fixes or detox diets. We also don’t believe in spending January (one of the coldest, darkest months) depriving ourselves of the things that make us happy and feeling like we need to punish ourselves for the indulgences of the holidays. Nope!
So, the Christmas hype is over… we have probably overindulged on both food and drink over the holidays (and quite rightly so) but feeling like we need to get our bodies ‘back to normal’ after all the ‘treats’ we have allowed ourselves. But let’s think about this for a minute; what
will you get out of a ‘detox’ diet or a calorie restricting diet, or even just a 3 day ‘juice cleanse’? I can confidently answer this question with the response ‘absolutely nothing positive’.