Category: Wellbeing
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Why I love a cold dip
There’s something about water, isn’t there? Ever since I was a small child, I loved being in or on the water (which must have been a nightmare for my parents trying to stop me plunging into fountains and horse troughs at every available opportunity). Like many women of a certain age who have struggled with…
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How drumming can help burnout
Posted by Anna (5 minute read) When severe burnout ended my corporate career, I felt humiliated and blamed myself for not coping better. Thankfully, a combination of time, therapy and, of course, drumming helped me to recover. But what is burnout, and how can group drumming help prevent it? Burnout is chronic stress caused by…
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Menopause: how drumming helped me
I remember telling a friend that I thought menopause was like puberty but worse. It snuck up on me without announcing itself and turned my life upside down. I found myself struggling with tasks that I’d previously found easy, waking up in the night and not being able to get back to sleep and feeling…
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Ten reasons why drumming helps wellbeing
We’ve both noticed that drumming lifts your mood, and it turns out that there’s bags of evidence to back this up. Even if you have no previous drumming experience, research shows that people find group drumming sessions uplifting, cathartic and energising. Creating community and a shared sense of achievement, we firmly believe in the power…
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