Workplace Insights
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Practical, compassionate perspectives on mental health, work and everyday wellbeing — written by Mat for the people and teams Trio supports.
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Men’s wellbeing Performance Pressure: Men, Sex, and Relationship Anxiety
Sexual performance anxiety is one of the most common and least openly discussed difficulties that men bring to therapy. The combination of its intimate nature, the…
Anxiety Avoidance Patterns: How Running From Anxiety Makes It Stronger
Avoidance is the most natural response in the world to something that frightens us. When a situation, thought, sensation, or object reliably produces anxiety, the instinct…
Sleep & rest Micro-Rests: The Power of Brief Pauses Throughout Your Day
We tend to think of rest as something that happens in large blocks of time - the weekend, the holiday, the night's sleep. The working day,…
Trauma Shame and Trauma: Breaking Free from Self-Blame
Of all the psychological consequences of trauma, shame is perhaps the most insidious - and the most likely to prevent recovery. Whilst fear and grief, however…
Workplace Career Crossroads: Using Therapy to Navigate Professional Uncertainty
There are few experiences more unsettling than standing at a crossroads in one's professional life without a clear sense of which direction to take. Whether the…
Self-care & growth Values Clarification: Knowing What Truly Matters to You
One of the most disorienting experiences a person can have is the sense of living a life that does not feel genuinely their own - of…
Men’s wellbeing Male Friendships: The Loneliness Epidemic Amongst Men
There is a quiet crisis in men's social lives that rarely makes headlines but has profound consequences for mental health and wellbeing. Men in the United…
Anxiety The Worry Window: Scheduling Time for Anxious Thoughts
Most advice about anxiety focuses on how to stop worrying. Stop catastrophising. Challenge your negative thoughts. Think more positively. The implicit message is that anxious thoughts…
Sleep & rest The Energy Crisis: Addressing Chronic Fatigue and Mental Health
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that goes beyond ordinary tiredness - one that sleep does not reliably relieve, that accumulates over time, and that…
Trauma Safe Spaces: Creating Internal and External Security After Trauma
One of the most fundamental consequences of trauma is the disruption of safety. When something overwhelmingly threatening has happened - whether once or repeatedly, in childhood…
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