Wellbeing Services

Our Wellbeing Team is made up of Health and Wellbeing Coaches and a Green Social Prescriber based at the Growing Well Garden at Bow Medical Practice.

As a Team we offer people support and strategies to help them improve their lives. Providing many useful resources and services that can benefit wellbeing in the community. Our service aims to help people to live a more fulfilling life and have insight into what may be holding them back. We can help to support you to improve your health and wellbeing by:

  • Focusing on what matters most to you.
  • Helping you to reach your goals and your ambitions.
  • Connecting you to local community services and activities.

The Growing Well Garden is based at Bow Medical Practice and was established by Dr Susan Taheri.  This has been a labour of love for Susan and a small group of volunteers.  Please use this direct link to learn more about this wonderful project and what it provides in the community.  https://growingwellgarden.co.uk/

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Are you ready to improve your overall health and wellbeing, but not sure where to start? The free NHS Healthy Choices Quiz is here to help – and it only takes 5 minutes. Answer questions about your lifestyle to receive an overall score as well as personalised guidance to help you live a healthier life. Take the quiz now: https://www.nhs.uk/hcquiz

Health & Wellbeing Coaches

Coaches support people by using coaching skills and models of behaviour change. To help them think through their own challenges and goals which can increase their motivation and commitment to make changes to their lifestyle and improve their health.

Wellbeing coaches are an effective intervention for improving self-management by helping to develop people’s motivation, knowledge, skills and confidence around a variety of issues / conditions including the following:

  • Weight, diet & exercise
  • Stress
  • Mood & low level mental health issues
  • Managing difficult emotions
  • Persistant pain

To make a referral please use the Joy App

Social Prescribing

Social prescribing is connecting people to activities and support to improve health and wellbeing. Many things affect our health that can’t be treated by doctors or medicine alone.

Social prescribing can help change the circumstances that can make people unwell. Empowering people to manage existing health problems, get the right benefits, or get back to employment. Helping people to connect, grow in confidence, gain more control over their own health.

  • Re-discovering what matters to me
  • Improve overall well being
  • Information and guidance
  • Local resources
  • Community groups

To make a referral use the Joy App

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Contact

Please use the contact form below to get in touch with our team.

Resources

Grounding Exercises

Grounding is a way of helping you to gain some distance from your thoughts, feelings, and memories by bringing you back to the present moment. It helps you to get back in touch with what is happening around you right now, and to train your mind and brain to stay in the present. Grounding can also help you to find a balance between feeling overwhelmed by emotions and being out of touch with them.

1) Take notice of the present moment: 5 4 3 2 1.

  • 5  things you can see arround you
  • 4 things you can touch
  • 3 things you can hear
  • 2 things you can smell
  • 1 thing you can taste

Exercises like this bring you back into your body and present moment, rather than being in your worry / thinking brain.

2) Develop a Grounding phrase

A grounding phrase is made up of a few words which are positive and remind you that you are surviving in the present. A gounding phrase acknowledges the feelings you are experiencing, such as  fear or panic, and also reminds you  that you are safe now.

For example, you may use the phrase “I am feeling frightenend and I am safe now“. The word “and” is important here. This is sometimes called dual awareness – being aware of 2 different things at the same time. Alternatively, you may want to use the statement that reminds you of your strengths, such as “I have survived the past and I am safe now“.

Breathing exercise

If you’re sitting or standing, place both feet flat on the ground, roughly hip width apart.

  • Let your breath flow as deep down into your lower belly as is comfortable, without forcing it.
  • Try breathing in through your nose and out through your nose.
  • Breathe in gently for the count of three.
  • Then, without pausing or holding your breath, let it flow out gently, counting to six or eight, a longer slower outbreath.
  • Repeat 2 or 3 times

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