Episode Title: Habit Stacking: The easy way to create great habits

Episode Summary: In the fifth episode of our new season of Love Life, Live Well, our host Emma Cartmell is joined by Claire Elmes, Founder of Inspire You a consultancy who help people to improve mental fitness through science backed approaches to enhance performance on a personal, team and organisation level. 

Prior to this she worked as a Senior Mental Health Practitioner with the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Episode highlights:

• The drivers behind why Claire wants to raise awareness on the benefits of  trying to achieve a better work life balance
• How she works with companies and professionals to manage stress and change company culture
• How Claire tries to work at the preventative level, so asking for help before reaching burnout
• How we need habits to be able to function
• Understanding what habits serve you and which don’t 
• What habit stacking is and how effective it can be both personally and professionally
• The benefits of setting intentions for your day
• How to try to make time in your day to try new things

Key Takeaways:

• 914,000 people are suffering with work-related stress, anxiety, and depression at the moment. And that has gone up from 822,000 last year.  - Claire
  
  
• It’s about getting into workplaces and really helping companies change culture, helping business owners to stop working 60 hour weeks, and helping professionals to get back on track in a more manageable way and get that rest and recovery into our lives. - Claire
  
  
• We still have that view of, but I am functioning on some level, so therefore I must be okay. It's still kind of that ingrained mindset. - Claire
  
  
• When you learn a new thing, a new habit, a new skill, like you learn to drive a car or ride a bike, you're having to think about absolutely every single part of that process, whereas when it becomes an autopilot, you just don’t think about it. - Claire
  
  
• So you have an old habit, a new habit, an old habit. And what that does is it helps your brain and gives it a bit of conditioning, a bit like a coding system. It helps your brain to adapt to that habit naturally. - Claire

Resources:

• Stress Awareness Day
• Inspire You Facebook Page