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Reflections from our recent workshop with Funktion Events, led by Glo's resident naturopath and life coach, Sara Jubb
Change is constant — new systems, new structures, new ways of working. Yet however familiar change becomes, it rarely gets easier. Last week the Glo team ran a wellbeing workshop for Funktion Event’s corporate client exploring exactly that: why transitions unsettle us, and what genuinely helps us stay steady when things are shifting around us.
Here's a look at what we covered.
Why change feels so hard
Our brains are wired for certainty. Predictability keeps cognitive load low and lets us feel safe so when the ground shifts, even in a positive direction, the brain can register it as a threat. In...
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What causes burnout at work?
Burnout at work is rarely caused by workload alone. It is the result of three factors combining over time: low energy (caused by poor nutrition, skipped meals or dehydration), sustained high stress (from workload, lack of control, emotional demands or uncertainty), and insufficient recovery (not giving the nervous system enough genuine rest to restore itself). When these three things occur together consistently, burnout risk rises significantly. Addressing burnout means looking at all three areas — fuelling the body properly, understanding your stress load, and building real recovery into daily life rather than treating it as a special event.
The connection between energy, stress and recovery, and...
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This week is Men's Health Week (15–21 June 2026). This year's theme - #MensHealthWeek - asks a simple but powerful question: how can we better use pharmacy to improve men's health?
It might not sound like the most obvious starting point. But it's a brilliant one. Because your local pharmacy is already there. It doesn't require an appointment. There's no waiting list. And for many men, it's a far lower barrier than booking a GP.
At Glo, we believe that taking care of yourself should be as accessible and as normal as possible -for everyone. Men's Health Week is a moment to ask: what's one thing you've been putting off? And what's the easiest possible way to start?
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It's not just about eating your greens. What you eat and drink during the working day has a measurable impact on your brain, your mood and your ability to think clearly under pressure.
Most of us know, on some level, that food affects how we feel. But the connection between what we eat and how we perform at work - our focus, our resilience, our emotional regulation, our ability to handle a difficult afternoon - is far more direct and far better evidenced than most people realise.
This isn't about clean eating or food guilt. It's about understanding a few key mechanisms that, once you're aware of them, start to explain a lot about why some days feel...
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It's not about clearing your mind. It's about changing your relationship with pressure.
Mindfulness has become one of those words that gets used a lot and understood a little. In a workplace context, it's often dismissed as a nice idea - something that sounds good in a wellbeing policy but doesn't quite translate to real life. The emails still pile up. The deadlines don't move. How does sitting quietly help with any of that?
The answer, backed by decades of research, is that mindfulness doesn't work by removing pressure. It works by changing how the brain responds to it. And that distinction makes all the difference.
What's Actually Happening in a Stressed Brain
When we experience...
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