When we express gratitude and kindness to ourselves and others, we build compassion and self compassion.This will lift your mood and make life more enjoyable.

In this Impactful: 10 episode, you'll hear Soen Trueman talking about his personal journey to practising gratitude and how you can take your kindness forward to improve your resilience.

Your Better Mental Wellbeing is a weekly podcast helping you to manage stress and build resilience with easy evidence-based tools.

We're your hosts, Neera and Soen.

Dr Neera Dholakia is a GP for Boots Online Doctor and the NHS. She is an expert in mental wellbeing and has extensive experience designing mental health services whilst working for NHS England, Healthy London Partnership and mental health trusts. As well as promoting self-care, she also works to improve mental wellbeing in the workplace.

Soen Trueman is a full stack developer with Boots Online Doctor, specialising in graphics design, user experience, and user behaviour. Soen’s interests in behavioural analysis extends to psychology and further to neuroscience, which he is currently studying at Harvard University.

This week's tools:

-Practising gratitude for ourselves and others is healing

-Finding times to be kind improves wellbeing

-Smiling is infectious and makes us feel great

Join us next week as we move towards a new year, when we explore how you can 'Live Your Values, Accept Yourself and Let Go'

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For transcripts visit our website: https://yourbettermentalwellbeing.show

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The information in this podcast is not intended to replace your own GP or other doctor’s professional medical advice.