Explore your feelings of anxiety and uncertainty
The pandemic has meant we’ve all needed to make major lifestyle changes incredibly quickly.
The restrictions placed on social contact have been more difficult for some than others, and the same is likely as restriction measures are changed and updated over the coming months. There is an assumption by some that this easing will be a happy, even joyful, experience – but it could bring a variety of stresses and worries for many of us, including…
- Anxiety about infection as we interactive with others more and more
- Frustration at others we see flouting restrictions
- Reluctance to let go of our established routines and embrace the updated restrictions
- Uncertainty or unwillingness to rearrange delayed events due to the pandemic
- Questioning rationale if we are interacting more while others are not
- Uncertainty about how relationships may have changed during lockdown
Explore your feelings of anxiety and uncertainty with the support below
Video from the British Red Cross
This video looks at a useful approach to managing worries when things are hard and focusing on what you can control
Explore your resilience 
Explore your resilience and the small steps you can make to build it up
NHS inform self help guide on anxiety
Work through a guide for people with mild to moderate anxiety symptoms learning about symptoms, more about anxiety and finding ways to manage or overcome anxiety
Cycle2work is a salary sacrifice scheme. The discount comes from paying off the bike cost straight from your salary. This means you save on tax and national insurance with the bike cost going through as a non cash benefit.
The mylifestyle portal provides colleagues access to wide variety of savings all in one place.
Got a query or a question then check out the supports that are available:
By the end of the 90-minute session you will:
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Hundreds of NLC colleagues are riding bikes they initially got through Cycle2work. In the video Claire Grierson from the Craigneuk Family Learning Centre shares her experience of getting a bike through Cycle2work and on the right Mairi MacVicar a Active School Co-ordinator also shares her experiences.
Clients will be required to arrive at their designated appointment time. There are no waiting areas open.
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With modern technical clothing, staying warm and dry on the bike, no matter how bad the weather, has never been easier. Below British Cycling provides you advice on choosing the correct clothes, getting your layering right and other practical tips for staying warm through the worst of the British winter.
Non-vented aero style road helmets can keep your head warmer, especially when paired with a windproof skullcap or traditional Belgian style winter hat.
Put your trainers on and catch up with a colleague for a walking meeting following socially distancing guidelines. Even if you aren’t working close to colleagues geographically just plug your headphones into your phone and you can get walking and talking 🙂
Agree a lunch date with the team and have a blast with a virtual team lunch cook along. Take your digital device into the kitchen to enjoy everyone’s company over lunch whilst you cook up and eat in the comfort of your own home!
Many colleagues now working remotely have really missed the chance office encounters with team colleagues they maybe didn’t directly work with. That’s those brilliant brief conversations with team members who you hot desked next to or had a chance discussion with in the lift or at the water cooler.
Whether you have the voice of a songbird or sound like some ball-bearings in a blender, singing can have some remarkably positive effects.
Can I keep using reloadable discount cards I have with the previous shopping discounts platform?
There are four different ways you can get a discount depending on the retailer:
eGift cards
Online codes – instant discounts
Discounted retailer websites
