Words By: Alex Tomlin Anxiety, is a p****. There’s no two ways about it, the seemingly perpetual dread that feels like it’s never going to end until you spontaneously combust or pass out. I spent a long time trying to make the latter happen through various different methods, mainly alcohol. However, my first point of […]
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Words By: Sam Vickery Anxiety is a p****. It’s something I’ve dealt with on and off since my early 20’s. It would usually just be the pit feeling in my stomach, yet sometimes this would crescendo with a top notch panic attack. However, through time I have learnt to control it as best I could.
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At 5asideCHESS we believe strongly in the art of conversation as a prevention and cure, short or long term, to poor mental health in all of its capacities. As part of our Handling Headspace Series, we asked three people to offer their best tips on dealing with Anxiety. Here is the first by a young
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Ally looks into the beginnings of social media and how it’s turned us all into self serving what-ya-call-its, devoid of emotional attachment and unable to shake an obsession with creating new personalities and lives online. And, of course, with that problem we are offering our solution, the very excellent 5asideCHESS Pack ! Buy one and
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We are delighted to announce that the 5asideCHESS Pack will soon be available to buy at RegencyChess.co.uk. Everyone that buys a set will become a 5asideCHESS HELLO Person, challenged to go out and Connect with other people in their community. In each set you will receive our brilliant board, a Hello Sign and your Unique
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Words By: Eddie Joah The writing of this article was heavily avoided until far too close to deadline. Ironically, the avoidance came strapped to the mother of all irony bombs. The writer was scared people with anxiety would consider it ill informed and generally crap. He was anxious about how anxious people would feel about
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See our Latest Schedule Here Sometimes the most obvious things in the world only become clear once we have experienced them for ourselves. “You’re still the same person, despite where you are.” “He’s no good for you.” “Marmite is only good with butter.” Love those facts or hate them, they are all things we only ever
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Words By: Evan Rabin Premier Chess’ students range in geography from New York to the Northwestern Territory of Canada to Sri Lanka! Ever since I played a tournament in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in 2010, the international chess bug has hit me and I’ve played tournaments in Israel, Spain, France and Argentina and
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Here are the times and dates for 5asideCHESS Connecting next week. Come over and talk with our Hello People, enjoy a conversation and a spot of chess. Monday – Boston Tea Party Clifton 3pm-5pm Tuesday – Boston Tea Party Clifton 3pm-5pm Wednesday – Bristol Hippodrome 12pm-2pm Thursday – Boston Tea Party, Bath, Alfred Street –
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I woke up this morning feeling as low as I have for a long time. Twisted up on some knot I couldn’t find. The feeling made no sense. My bed was nice. The hotel had free chocolate. The night before had been brilliant. In fact, I had a million reasons to feel good. The free chocolate was
