Blogs

March 1st is Self-Harm and Self-Injury Awareness Day. At Life & Soul, our mentors come across young people who are struggling with self-harm or self-injury, so we wanted to share a bit on what it is and an encouraging case study of a student one of our mentors...

I’ve been reading a book by David Yeager called The Science of Motivating Young People 10 to 25. In it, Yeager explains something called the “neurobiological incompetence model.” This idea claims that teenagers naturally lack the brain development needed for advanced...

The back end of January has been marked as one of the most depressing times of the year, due to the typical dreary weather, post-holiday blues, debt mounting up from Christmas and failed new year resolutions sinking in. However, is this actually true? Is this time of...

I came across the work of Mark Brackett, Yale professor and founder of the Centre for Emotional Intelligence, as he talks about a lot of things we work with when mentoring. His work on the importance of managing feelings mirrors much of our solution focussed...