Hi everybody and welcome to the Squiggly Careers podcast. I'm Helen Tupper, one half of your normal Squiggly

Careers team. This week, Sarah has been off in the late district on holiday and I would say she'd

been sullying herself but I think it might have been quite rainy. So while she has been away,

I have had the pleasure of hosting our setting yourself up for success

squiggly career series where I've talked to five different guests a different guest every day

the week about a skill and an area that we think is just important for your development right now

and our thinking in designing this series was that we're coming up to September and September

always feels like a weird month in the world of work and even with everything that is going that we're coming up to September and September always feels like a weird month

in the world of work and even with everything that is going on, we're still noticing that with

September and for some people their kids are going back into school, for some people they're

going to going back a bit of their time into an actual office, that people are starting to think

a bit more about their career and want to invest in themselves.

So that's sort of why we did this series. And we've covered lots of different things.

We've covered strengths with Marcus Buckingham, building your brand with Bianca Miller-Cole.

We've also covered rest with Alex Sujong Kim Pang. And with Megan Wrights, we talked about

speaking up at work. So these are all topics that we think would be really helpful to people when they're thinking about their development. And hopefully,

if you haven't had chance to listen to any of those yet, there might be something there that's

interesting for you to go and listen to after today's episode. And today's topic is all about

stress and self-care. And it's about really the efforts that you can take to look after yourself

at work and really manage, practically manage your work well-being. And my guest for this podcast

is Rachel Wellford. She is the founder of an organisation called Wellford Wellbeing. She's a speaker,

a holistic therapist and also a mental health advocate. And what I love about Rachel is she kind of

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