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Discover the latest news, insights, articles and support strategies from Thrive Positive Psychology for helping you navigate your path to sustainable health and wellbeing.


What is Radical Self-Care?
Radical self-care goes beyond bubble baths and deep breathing. It's a framework that places your caring role within broader societal and cultural contexts - and treats your own wellbeing as an essential prerequisite to caring for others sustainably.

Tess Howells
Mar 124 min read


What Have We Become? Mental Health & the State of the World
When we look at mental health and the state of the world, the connection is hard to ignore. This personal piece explores the toll that inequality, violence and indifference are taking on all of us.

Tess Howells
Mar 122 min read


Positive Psychology: The Science of What’s Right With You
If you’ve ever wondered why some people seem to navigate life with a sense of purpose and fulfilment while others struggle despite having ‘everything they need’, you’re asking the kind of question that positive psychology was built to explore.

Tess Howells
Mar 113 min read


How Self-Reflection Can Help Carers Reclaim their Vital Health
Here's five things you can do to begin exploring your Inner-World (Self-reflection) 1. Make a decision to prioritise your own self-knowledge and self-care It may sound obvious, but I have found that unless we actually set a clear intention and develop routines we are unlikely sustain behaviour change. As carers we tend to be “other” focussed rather than focussed on ourselves. For many of us, we learnt to pay attention to the needs of others early in our childhoods wh

Tess Howells
Dec 14, 20253 min read
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