Dr. Dunbar suggests that your social world consists of a series of layers and as they increase in size, they decrease in emotional closeness.

Abundant research suggests that supportive relationships can help relieve harmful stress, with physical and mental benefits that include resistance to viruses. However, the pandemic has caused stress and strain to every relationship.

Steps to Your Healthy Future started as a Birmingham-based charity in 2017. It was set up to promote and preserve the good health of people suffering or at risk from long-term health conditions such as type-2 diabetes and pre-diabetes, by the provision of support and education.

Fancy the opportunity to join an uplifting support group, that can help you positively manage your Health & Wellbeing concerns?

Don't forget that we now have a designated Type 1 diabetes focused online meet up group happening the 2nd Tuesday of every month.

After over a year of staying at home and following strict safety guidelines, many people are understandably reluctant to step out their front door and re-enter society. For some, they're downright terrified.

Thanks to remarkable new technologies and the widespread use of social media, we are more “connected” than ever before. Yet as a nation, we are also more lonely.