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Health & Wellbeing

Welcome to the Heart of England Training Health & Wellbeing Hub. You can use this platform to read, access and request support relating to your physical and mental health, and explore the various resources designed to support and empower you.

We offer a free counselling service for learners and our advisory teams can support you with:

  • Contraception and sexual health advice
  • Access to therapies for stress, depression and anxiety
  • Smoking, drugs and alcohol guidance

Health & Wellbeing Podcasts

Happy Place | Fearne Cotton

Fearne takes a deep dive approach to explore the sometimes difficult journeys her guests have been on. The aim of Happy Place is to understand how they’ve overcome their difficulties, and inspire listeners to take away their own learnings.

The Ross Edgely Project | Ross Edgely

Ross is a qualified Sports and Nutrition expert and holds the record for swimming around the coast of Great Britain. The Ross Edgely Project podcast delves into the science behind sport performance and explains how to train for practically anything.

Give Me Strength | Alice Liveing

Give Me Strength explores the concept of ‘strength’ and discusses how women from different backgrounds have required strength in various parts of their lives. It features a variety of guests from female athletes to the Editor-in-Chief of Women’s Health.

Food for Thought | Rhiannon Lambert

Rhiannon, a qualified nutritionist, has a wealth of knowledge on how decisions around food can impact your wellbeing. On Food for Thought, Rhiannon and her guest speakers take an in-depth look into diet culture and separate the facts from the fiction.

How to Fail | Elizabeth Day

The format of the How to Fail podcast is quite simple: a guest is invited to discuss their top 3 failures in life. The podcast focuses on the positive outcomes from the guest’s failure and encourages listeners to redefine their so-called failures in life too.

GABA – Adam Martin

GABA podcast is for guided meditations. Each episode is usually around a theme and sometimes features current clips from the media. It’s a guided meditation made up of spoken word poetry and/or commentary with sound effects.

Health & Wellbeing Quick-Reads

Exercise: 10 tips to get moving

Exercise helps improve all aspects of your health and with some simple steps you can use exercise to improve your mood, physical health and academic learning.

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7-11 breathing exercise

This breathing exercise can help you to reduce stress in the moment.
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Improve your sleep

Sleep can help us to manage negative thoughts and emotions and provide us with the energy to tackle the problems we face.

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The role of sunlight in your wellbeing

Natural light is vital to our physical and mental health and regularly getting out in daylight can have a positive impact on sleep, mood and academic performance.

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Wishing this wasn’t happening

Most of us wish this pandemic hadn’t happened. Acknowledging your feelings can help but taking steps to manage your thoughts and feelings can help you to move forward and feel better.

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Healthy habits can help your mental health

When there is a lot of uncertainty in our lives and in the world around us, we can slip into comforting behaviours that have a negative effect on our wellbeing. If your diet, daily routine or exercise has lost structure due to the current circumstances, you might want to consider making some constructive changes.

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