One of the really fascinating breakthroughs in recent years has been the growing understanding of the tremendous mental, emotional, spiritual and physical health benefits of spending time in nature...
Do you want to be more successful in life? Assuming that you do, just how do you define that success? By a stellar career and accomplishments or by material purchases perhaps? Getting the dream holiday? Driving a brand new car? Buying the latest gizmo? All of...
Gifting yourself some short periods of stillness throughout your day is a wonderful way to recharge from stress, rebalance your emotional equilibrium, and restore a greater sense of balance...
Do you feel irritable, isolated or withdrawn? Do you find yourself working all the time? Drinking too much alcohol...
I am a big advocate for gratitude, not just the emotion of experiencing gratitude, which like all positive emotions is fleeting and transient, but more importantly the habit of regularly expressing gratitude...
Recent research involving almost 6000 adults has found immeasurable benefits for employees from cultivating hope in the workplace...
Wisdom asks the right questions whereas knowledge provides answers. Looking back to learn from great wisdom of the past can inform the present moment and inspire a brighter, better future too...
On many occasions over the years after a keynote talk or wellbeing workshop, I have been challenged about the wellbeing benefits of gratitude...
Delighted to support and take part in the St Pauls Parish Frank Leahy 5 Mile Run/ 3 Mile Walk today, now in its 15th year. A fantastic initiative, enabling so many different voluntary groups to mobilise and raise valuable funds...
Delighted to be invited to give my annual talk on ‘lifestyle as medicine’ to UCD School of Medicine Students. To my surprise, I was told today that this is my 10th year doing this...
Sincere gratitude to Bobby Kerr and team at Newstalk Radio for our conversation about my book Things Your Future Self Will Thank You For....
Delighted to be a recent guest on the latest podcast from Insight HR. A podcast conversation with HR Leader Mary Cullen (interviewed by Dave Corkery)...
Dr. Mark has developed an innovative training toolkit for leaders and managers to support workplace wellbeing that he calls START. Incorporating wellbeing is essential to the sustainable success of your organisation...
As a leader or manager, choosing the path of wellbeing is often the ‘road less travelled’ in terms of your brain architecture- designed for fear detection, danger avoidance and simple survival. It takes awareness, effort and consistent investments in your wellbeing...
There is definitely increasing awareness of the importance of workplace wellbeing with a research survey in the US by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services finding that 87% of leaders and managers agreed that improving workplace...
The wellbeing of any organisation depends on the health and wellbeing of its leaders and leadership team. Rather than doing wellbeing for your employees or to your employees, a far more effective concept is to embrace wellbeing with your employees...
The World Health Organisation defines health as not merely the absence of disease but a state of complete physical, mental and relational wellbeing...
Supporting Those Who Support Us: Why Carer Wellbeing Matters. Delighted to be invited to keynote recently about everyday wellbeing strategies to Family Carers Ireland. This is the National Charity supporting the estimated 500,000 family carers in Ireland caring for loved ones in the home...
Thanksgiving is that time of year when thoughts of gratitude and tokens of appreciation are freely expressed. Gratitude for those people in your life that matter, appreciation for your successes or perhaps for adversity you have overcome. In short, expressing a sense of thankfulness for...
Delighted to be invited into Coimisiún na Meán recently for World Mental Health Day to address their people on the important topics of stress recharge and resilience...
Recently, I delivered a keynote entitled Beyond Burnout: Building a Culture of Wellbeing in Family Medicine. This leveraged key ideas and strategies to support physician wellbeing in terms of recharging from stress and building resilience...
What a truly special evening we had in Lismore this October for World Mental Health Day. By invitation, I accepted the opportunity to speak to a large community audience over of 100 people about the importance of embracing positive mental health...
The Brendan O Connor show on RTE Radio 1 interviewed me about ways to embrace change and enhance wellbeing as Autumn draws in...
Delighted to guest lecture again this year with my keynote talk on the importance of why wellbeing matters at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). These were the participants In the Postgraduate Certificate in Workplace Wellness...
Brain fog can cause poor focus, memory problems, and fatigue. Learn the symptoms, common causes, and science-backed strategies to clear brain fog and boost wellbeing...
Climbing Stairs: An Easy Exercise To Boost Heart Health ‘Taking the stairs is a simple way to lower heart disease risk, strengthen your body, and live with more vitality’...
When was the last time you received or gave (a consensual !) hug? Hugs may just be one of those secret ingredients to a healthier life, helping to soothe away stress, foster feelings of closeness and warmth...
One of the great illusions in modern life is the importance of busyness. The belief that constant busyness is the main ingredient in the recipe for life success...
Prolonged sitting is now well recognised to be a significant health hazard. Not just in front of the TV or digital device – any form of extended sitting, whether at work or driving, can be harmful. The numbers speak for themselves...
Imagine being able to self regulate your eating behaviour. Eating just the right amount of food and nutrients to sustain you and enable you to be the best version of you...
Health is such a priceless gift, always changing and never static. There are always new things to learn and new ways to enhance your wellbeing...
It was an incredible moment to be seated in St. Peters Square recently. There to witness close up the inaugural mass of Pope Leo the fourteenth...
An Interview with Dr Mark Rowe: While I was thinking about all of the above, I came across an excellent book called The Vitality Mark by Dr Mark Rowe...
The timeless truth that an ‘apple a day keeps the doctor away’ is a terrific reminder that healthy eating can make an enormous difference to your long term health...
When was the last time you experienced a sense of awe? A transcendent moment of wonder or amazement in the presence of nature, inspirational art, architecture, sporting or spiritual experiences...
The explosion in the use of digital technology in recent years has been increasingly implicated with a raft of negative consequences...
When I was in medical school, we were taught that the adult brain was incapable of structural change. Once fully formed at age 18, you lost more and more brain cells as you got older...
We first make our habits in life and then our habits make us. These prophetic words by John Dryden are incredibly...
Being asked how to bring happiness into my life is an interesting question. Something I thought a lot about many years ago during the height of the great financial crash when so many people were attending my medical practice struggling with significant stress...
Did you have a challenging time lately? A tough day perhaps, when things simply went astray. Can you remember what your wellbeing...
Do you eat flavonoids regularly? They are also known as polyphenols, bioflavonoids or ‘vitamin P’. These substances are used by plants to attract pollinators and fight infections...
Delighted to meet and guest on the Karl Henry Real Health Podcast where he asked me about aspects of my latest book – Things Your Future Self Will Thank You For...
Allow me to let you in on a little secret. There is no short cut to building an exercise habit. Motivation will only get you so far, in fact perhaps only accounting for fifteen percent of...
Giving to others has health and happiness boosting benefits that exceed doing things for yourself. One of the really interesting things about kindness is its three fold impact. In other words kindness impacts firstly the doer (the giver), secondly the recipient of kindness and thirdly...