Terms of Service

How our service works

At YouDrive, you are in charge. These Terms of service explain how we operate. We are a service provider, with clever technology, and a network of specialists who cover the full range of needs that you will have during your lifetime.

You decide what you want to do and when. We won’t contact you unless you say you want to kept up to date with something.

YouDrive is a service for registered users that brings together a number of specially created features to meet your everyday needs.  It does this by providing you with information, the ability to check your own health, and  links to sites which we believe can help you.  

You can choose to stay in touch and keep informed with important news and information by commenting on our content, contacting us and even writing blog posts and articles for our site.

YouDrive aims to help consumers manage their health more effectively. We put you in the driving seat when navigating your way around your life journey.

Some important points to know about 

It’s important you understand the strengths and limitations of our service. As part of registering for our service on our website you are accepting that you have read and understood these Terms of Service.

We provide you with online customer support with access to a range of smart services to manage your health more effectively.

We are here to provide great service with unique online tools, and help you to find the best products for your needs. We keep it simple and help you to stay in control of your health.

Our service offering to you does not constitute financial advice, or any sort of advice. When using the services provided by our partners, they will provide you with information on their regulatory status and their own terms and conditions.

When you communicate with us, we will not give advice on specific products and services. We are here to offer guidance around our processes and not give specific guidance on a product or company. We may ask for additional information in order to maintain up to date records.

We often link to other websites, and to a number of specialist partners, but we can’t be responsible for their content. When you leave our site and are directed to one of our partners, you should always do your own research, read their terms and conditions (which will be different to ours), and ensure their product or service is right for your specific circumstances before proceeding.

The information on this page details our Terms of Service.

Please read this information carefully. If you use our Site as a visitor, and/or register for our service, you will be regarded as having read and accepted these Terms. If you don’t wish to be bound by what you read below, you shouldn’t use our Site or register for our service.

You can navigate to a specific section by selecting the header, however we recommend that you should read all the information.

These Terms are effective as of: 01 October 2018

Introduction

1.1 – Welcome to YouDrive and our related services (our “Site”). Our Site is owned and operated by YouDriveHealth Limited (‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’) and was created in 2015 to address the physical, financial and mental needs of the UK consumer. We are proud to have links to Local Government, Birmingham City Council.

1.2 – Please read these terms and conditions of use (“Terms”) before using our Site. By using our Site (whether as a visitor or a registered user) you are agreeing to be bound by these Terms. If you don’t wish to be bound by what you read below, you shouldn’t use our Site and services.

1.3 – We may make changes to these Terms at any time. We will let you know what these changes are by posting them to this page, but it is your responsibility as a user to make sure that you are aware of them, by checking for any changes on a regular basis. Changes will become effective as soon as they are posted. If you continue to use our Site after the posting of changes to these Terms, it means that you accept any such changes.

1.4 – Registration

By registering, you certify that all information you provide in the registration is accurate. Users may only maintain one active registration. In other words, it’s one registration per person. By accepting this agreement, you certify that you have no other registration with YouDrive.

You must have a valid email registered with us at all times. If an email that we send to you should bounce for some reason, your account may be temporarily suspended until you contact us with a verifiable address.

You, the end user, agree to provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself and you agree to not misrepresent your identity or your account information. You agree to keep your account information up to date and accurate.

Failure to disclose any information or providing inaccurate personal information may result in the product or service you take being invalidated. In the case of an insurance product this may result in a claim not being paid.

1.5 – Access to our Site

Access to our Site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our Site without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason our Site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our Site, or our entire site, to users who have registered with us.

Our Site is all about providing you with access to unique tools, services and information on a wide range of products, provided by third parties. We provide regularly updated general information, tools and services with articles and information on how to save money. The information that you read on our Site is a great starting point for your further research into what suits your particular requirements. 

Our information does not constitute any form of financial or other advice, recommendation, representation, endorsement or arrangement by us and is not intended to be relied upon by you in making (or refraining from making) any specific investment or other decisions. If we mention companies on our Site, we usually do so because of their useful features and benefits, or their attractive pricing. As a general policy we don’t vet them on customer service or investigate their solvency. Given that the impact of any information expressed on our Site can vary widely based on your particular circumstances, you should always carry out your own research into the product that is of interest to you.

We take your privacy seriously. Please read our Privacy Policy to see how we manage the information you share with us.

5.1 – Our Site does include details on, or links through to, information provided by other websites including our specialist partners. We don’t control the accuracy or completeness of that information. You take full responsibility for using that information and verifying it and for any decision to use, purchase or refrain from purchasing any of the services or products mentioned on a linked site. If you do purchase products or services from another website please read their terms and conditions carefully before deciding to buy or transact. Remember, your contract for those products or services will be with them, not us.

5.2 – When you use other websites, any personal information you give them will be dealt with in line with their privacy policies, not ours, so please read the privacy policies of each and every such website before using them.

5.3 – Some of the links included on our Site may be affiliated links. These are links that take you directly or indirectly to a product provider and which may result in us receiving a fee or commission as a consequence of you clicking through to their site or purchasing a product from them.

6.1 – All of the content on our Site is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by English and international copyright laws.

6.2 – Our content includes any information or other material found on youdrivehealth.com or youdrivehealth.org.uk, including tools, posts, articles, databases, graphics, software and all other features of our Site. You are allowed to use our content for personal, non-commercial use only. You may make one copy of extracts from this Site on any single computer for personal, individual use only, provided that all copyright and proprietary notices are kept intact. Apart from that, none of our content may be republished, posted, transmitted, stored, sold, distributed or modified without our prior written consent.

6.3 – The YouDriveHealth brand, logo and livery are owned by YouDriveHealth Limited. All other brand names and trade marks that appear on this Site are trade marks or trade names of their respective holders. No permission is given to use of any of these brands or marks and any such use may constitute an infringement of the holders’ rights.

6.4 – The information provided on our Site, or via links to our Site, is for general information purposes only. It is not, and should not be construed as, financial or other professional advice. You should not rely on the information you find here to inform your decisions; rather, use it as a starting point for doing your own independent research.

6.5 – In the material we make available on our Site, we rely on a wide variety of sources and other websites. We believe these sources of data to be generally accurate and reliable, but sometimes they may not be. YouDriveHealth Limited makes no claims or representations as to the accuracy, completeness, or truth of any material contained on our Site. Nor is YouDriveHealth Limited liable for any errors or delays in the content or transmission of the data on our Site.

7.1 – Our Site and email products may, from time to time, include third-party advertisements. The appearance of an advert does not mean that we endorse the advertiser’s goods or services. While we will not knowingly run an advert that is untrue, YouDriveHealth is not responsible for the accuracy of any advertising material or the usefulness of an advertised product or service.

7.2 – In our various product comparison centres, we may feature a number of providers that have paid YouDriveHealth to promote their services to you. We do not recommend one over another and these areas are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all providers of a particular  product. It is up to you to decide whether what they offer is right for you. You can find more detailed information about our relationship with our sponsors in the disclosure documents for each of our product comparison centres.

7.3 – Please note that YouDrivehealth has no control over the third party providers listed in our comparison centres. Accordingly, YouDriveHealth Limited specifically disclaims all liability for any damage or costs of any type arising out of or in any way connected with your use of a provider’s service or product included in our product comparison centres.

We encourage debate of the promotion or recommendation of our service between our users, their friends and family. However, we do require that your use of Social Media and any other communication systems that we provide is lawful and in accordance with these Terms of Service.

We offer a number of unique tools and services that give you access to transact with a wide range of products including our regular Physical,Financial and Mental Health communications by email and content we provide on our Site. We may also launch new tools and services from time to time (“YouDriveHealth Tools and Services”).

9.1 – Product Comparison service

9.1.1 – Any Product Comparison service enables you to compare a wide range of products.

9.1.2 – YouDrive has selected Quotezone to provide you with this service. If you subsequently apply for a product using the product comparison service we may both receive a payment, as a fee or commission, from your chosen provider for introducing you to them as a customer.

9.1.3 – When using the Product Comparison service you should read the disclaimer wording in the footer of each page (“About This Service”) that explains how the service is provided. We suggest you read the Quotezone Services Terms and Conditions (including Complaints Policy), Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

9.2 – Product Partners

9.2.1 – In addition to the Product Comparison Service, and when you interact with us by telephone, we may suggest that you speak with one of our specialist Product Partners who will be able to assist you further with your product enquiry or need.

9.2.2 – In most cases, and only with your consent, we will transfer you directly to our specialist partner who will continue to discuss your needs and may also provide you with financial advice.

9.2.3 – When you choose to contact one of our Product Partners you will be bound by their terms and conditions which they will explain to you or make available for your acceptance before continuing or transacting into their product offering.

9.2.4 – If you subsequently apply for a product using one of our Product Partners we may receive a payment, as a fee or commission, from your chosen provider for introducing you to them as a customer.

We provide our Site in good faith but we can’t and don’t warrant the completeness, truth or accuracy of the information or other content or postings found on our Site, or their usefulness for any particular purpose. You acknowledge and agree that you bear full responsibility for your own research and decisions and that we shall not be liable for any action that you or others take or don’t take based on your use of or reliance on information provided by us or other users of our Site.

10.1 – Before you apply for any products via our Site and in particular the YouDriveHealth Tools and Services, it is very important you (i) carefully read the terms and conditions of the product, the product provider’s terms and conditions and any other terms applicable to the product; (ii) check all the information held by the product provider about you to ensure it is correct, complete and accurate. It is your responsibility to (i) ensure the product matches your requirements and that you agree to the terms and conditions of the product before you apply for it; and (ii) identify and correct any mistakes or errors in the information about you held by the product provider before you apply for any product. We cannot accept any liability for any loss or damage you may suffer or incur: (i) in the event that any product you apply for does not meet your requirements, or is not suitable for you; or (ii) if any information about you held by the product provider is not correct, complete and accurate; or (iii) if it is misleading, or if you have failed to disclose all relevant facts. If you are in any doubt as to whether any information is relevant or required to be disclosed, or that something may be incorrect, you should disclose it to your proposed provider before you apply for the product.

10.2 – We don’t promise that your access to our Site, or its content will be delivered uninterrupted, timely or error-free, or that the Site will be free from viruses or other harmful properties. It’s your responsibility to implement satisfactory safeguards and procedures to make sure any files you obtain through our Site are free from such contaminations or other harmful properties.

10.3 – The effect of what is set out here is that you agree that under no circumstances will we be held liable for any direct, indirect, incidental or other type loss or injury resulting from your use, or downloading of any content on our Site.

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless us, our directors, officers, employees and licensors from and against any claim, liability, cost, damage or loss we may incur (including reasonable legal fees) as a result of any material that you post or transmit on our Site, Social Media or via any other communications systems, any actions you take which disrupt access to and/or the functioning of our Site or any breach by you of your obligations under these Terms.

If any provision in this Agreement is invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect. These Terms of Service shall be governed by the laws of England and Wales as if the Agreement was a contract wholly entered into and wholly performed within England. The courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction in relation to any disputes arising under or in connection with these Terms of Service, but without prejudice to YouDriveHealth Ltd’s ability to bring proceedings against a user in the courts of any jurisdiction.

These Terms were published on 01 October 2018 and updated in January 2019, and again in June 2022 – these replace with immediate effect the any previously published Terms.

Our Site is owned and operated by YouDriveHealth Limited

Registered office: The Croft Whiston, Penkridge, Stafford, England, ST19 5QH

Registered in England & Wales with number 13089154

If you have any questions about our Site or these Terms and Conditions, please contact us by email on in**@yo************.com

We try to provide an excellent service but if things go wrong we will do everything we can to put things right and help you. If you have a complaint please notify us by email to in**@yo************.com

Please mark your communication as a complaint and include your name and address, a contact telephone number and an explanation of why you are unhappy. We will contact you to either resolve your issue or to seek further information if we need it.

In any event we will send a written acknowledgement of your complaint within 5 working days of its receipt and within 8 weeks we will send you a final response or a letter explaining why we have not been able to resolve the issue.

If your complaint is to do with a product you have purchased from a third party referred by us either via the Site or by our contact centre staff then you can complain directly to the provider of the product. We cannot answer complaints or accept responsibility on behalf of a third party provider of a product or service.

Effective: 31 January 2022

All areas of health are interlinked

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Find your initial focus

You might think that physical, financial and mental health are quite separate, and for some people they are. However, often a problem in one area has a knock-on effect on others. Losing your job can lead to anxiety and depression, which can turn you to drink and impact your health.

You might have a severe issue in one area but that can lead to problems in other areas, and the people treating you for the first problem won’t be equipped to deal with these linked issues.

For example, doctors and nurses can treat you for a physical problem but can’t advise you about your job or finances.  Nor for the anxiety that comes with it, apart from prescribing some drugs, which might or might not be the best solution.

We encourage you to take a holistic view – we look at all areas and offer support across the whole spectrum.

health areas interlinked

Even this view of health is simplistic, as you’ll discover later if you go down that route.  You might want to consider overall health, or wellness or wellbeing, which include additional types of health, such as occupational health (how you are in your job).   Then there’s happiness and quality of life – how do these fit?

If you’re interested in that, click the link here to see more information.

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Health Areas in Domains

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Domains

We break down the overall concept of health or wellness into ‘bite-sized chunks’ that we can actually do something about.  The first level we call health domains. 

We like the Life of Wellness site and we have chosen the following domains.

1. Emotional Wellness: Awareness and acceptance of feelings
2. Spiritual Wellness: A search for meaning and purpose
3. Intellectual Wellness: Recognition of your creativity, knowledge and skills
4. Physical Wellness: Need for physical activity and balanced nutrition
5. Environmental Wellness: Positive awareness and impact on your environment
6. Financial Wellness: Debt reduction, cash flow balance or financial future planning
7. Occupational Wellness: Personal achievement and enrichment from your career
8. Social Wellness: Contribution to your community

Health Areas

Within each domain, we have included a number of health areas. These are specific issues that you can tackle.  Within each health area, e.g. Depression, we have built additional information and exercises which you can do to help in the area. You can create your own Action Plan to address this area, and see

Emotional: Anxiety, Compassion Fatigue, Depression, Gambling, Laughter, Narcissistic, Personality Disorder, Sleep, Stress

Environmental: Environmental Issues, Greenness

Financial: Debt, Family Finance, Financial Planning, Financial Wellness

Intellectual: IQ, Personality, Procrastination

Occupational: Jobs for Different Personality Types, Retirement Income, Work Life Balance

Physical: Alcohol, Disabilities, Dizziness, Drugs, Fitness, Food Preferences, General Health, Healthy Ageing, Illness, Nutrition, Sleep Apnea, Smoking

Social: Communication Skills, Communication Styles, Domestic Abuse, Emotional Abuse, Love Partnerships, Mental Abuse, Parenting Styles, Sexual Addiction

Spiritual: Are You Sensitive, Mystical Guidance, Spirituality

Each health area has supporting information and its own questionnaire.

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Understand Health

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Physical, financial and mental health

One definition of health is:

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. 

The NHS define health as: ‘We use a broad definition of health that encompasses both physical and mental health, as well as wellbeing. This means we are not only interested in whether or not people are ill or have a health condition, but also in how healthy and well they are.’

We believe we also have to consider financial health, as this can easily impact physical and mental health. Click the button to see an example of how these are connected.

 It gets more complicated…

What is Health? How about Wellness, Wellbeing or Happiness?

The Active Wellbeing Society (TAWS) define Health as a state of the overall mental and physical state of a person; the absence of disease. They define Wellbeing or wellness as a way of life that aims to enhance well-being and refers to a more holistic whole-of-life experience which also includes emotional and spiritual aspects of life.  We expand on this definition of health to include financial health and mental health, to make it synonymous with wellbeing or wellness.  

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Health domains

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We break down the overall concept of health or wellness into ‘bite-sized chunks’ that we can actually do something about.  The first level we call health domains.

We like the Life of Wellness site and we have chosen the following domains.

1. Emotional Wellness: Awareness and acceptance of feelings
2. Spiritual Wellness: A search for meaning and purpose
3. Intellectual Wellness: Recognition of your creativity, knowledge and skills
4. Physical Wellness: Need for physical activity and balanced nutrition
5. Environmental Wellness: Positive awareness and impact on your environment
6. Financial Wellness: Debt reduction, cash flow balance or financial future planning
7. Occupational Wellness: Personal achievement and enrichment from your career
8. Social Wellness: Contribution to your community

wellness wheel

Health Areas

Within each domain, we have included a number of health areas. These are specific issues that you can tackle.  Within each health area, e.g. Depression, once you have subscribed we have built additional information and exercises which you can do to help in the area.

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See which domains you should address

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Having established that we use 8 domains, you need to understand which you should concentrate on.

The 8 are:

  • Emotional
  • Environmental
  • Financial
  • Intellectual
  • Occupational
  • Physical
  • Social
  • Spiritual

 

You can take a questionnaire, which scores you in each domain.  You can decide which domains you are strong in, and which you need to improve.

Another analysis shows which domains you should look at, but also which domains you want to look at.

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Locus of Control

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  • We want to help people in all aspects of their health  – physical, financial and mental. We also provide detailed explanations of how overall health (or well-being) is measured.
  • We believe these things are often linked, so we try and address health holistically. We are building templates, questionnaires and exercises to help you identify what’s important to you.
  • We think people should try and take responsibility for  of their own health as much as they can.  See below for what that means.

People look at things differently.  Some people believe things happen to them, while others believe they can influence what happens to them. Technically this is called the ‘locus of control’.  People can have an Internal or external Locus of Control

So how do you see things?

Psychology Today have a 15 minute test which gives you a summary of your position you can buy the detailed results if you want to.

My Personality Test have a 10 minute test which gives you a summary.

People tend to take more responsibility (locus gets more internal) as they get older.  However, external isn’t always bad – for example if you are physically unable to do some things you can accept it and focus on the things you can do.  This American video explains the concept and gives examples of how this can affect relationships.

locus of control

Internal

  • More likely to take responsibility for actions
  • Tend to be less influenced by others

External

  • Blame outside forces for what happens
  • Don’t believe they can change their situation themselves

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Add your attitude to change - see how you view changes in your life

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Do you need to change?

No matter how healthy you are at the moment, the chances are that there are some areas you could improve. It may be that you have a real problem in one or more areas, and you would like to make some improvements.

At YouDrive we accept that there are many different degrees of ‘not wellness’ in a large number of different health areas, ranging from physical illness such as covid-19 through mental illness such as anxiety through to financial problems like debt.  We try and help where the problem ranges from ‘slight’ to quite bad’ – after this expert help and intervention may be needed.

However, especially in these times, we have to try and make these changes ourselves, possibly with some help from others, whether remotely or face to face.

The thing is, to make an improvement we have to change some things.

This involves changing our behaviour in some respects, and that’s not always easy.

Henry Ford, the creator of the assembly line, is quoted as saying “if you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got”.  

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Another way of looking at this: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” – attributed to Albert Einstein.

Consequently we need to make some changes.  The problem is that we have already developed a lot of habits, some of which we need to break and replace by better ones.  Some of our bad habits have become entrenched, and the bad results they create in turn engender further bad habits to develop – in effect the bad habits can feed on themselves.

We need to understand how we can make changes and stick to them, and that’s what this part of your health profile is about.

It will involve some learning, through reading, some videos and some additional information and also seeing how you react to change currently.

It will also ask you to consider whether you feel you are in charge of your future, or whether you feel it’s all fate.

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Assess your overall health using a health questionnaire

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At YouDrive we try and help people improve their health. We use ‘health’ but we understand there are other terms such as wellbeing or even happiness that reflect how we are doing in our lives – if you’re interested in the different definitions and ideas see our page on the subject.

We want to help whether you have a particular problem – physical, financial or mental – or if you just want to improve some specific part of your life or just make some improvements overall.

You’d be surprised, but there has been a serious amount of scientific work done in this area over the last twenty years.

So first we allow you to assess your current health (or wellbeing, or happiness).  We do this by questionnaire.  Which one is determined by the type of person you are:

  1. You understand yourself well and want a quick overview of your health and wellness, and will drill down in any areas needing work
  2. You want to do a more detailed assessment and then focus on areas you’re already aware of
  3. You want to look at the whole situation in more detail across all the health domains.

By the way, we take your privacy seriously – we collect information that you choose to provide but we de-identify it as much as possible and will never share it with anyone without your explicit consent.

You can then drill down into some specific areas and there are more questionnaires to see your situation in these particular areas.  We provide you with specific information and refer you to other potential aspects of help. Our next step is to build a personalised action plan – for now we will make a suggestion for you to develop your own plan and then after a time you can see whether this has had a positive impact by retaking the test.

In future we will be engaging with medical and behavioural specialists to devise action plans for individual people with specific situations.

We have an overall questionnaire which you can complete which will assess your current state.

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Values, Attitudes and Beliefs

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We all have our beliefs, attitudes and values – these have developed throughout our life based on who we are and what we have done. Let’s look at what these are.

The University of Reading explain: “People’s values, beliefs and attitudes are formed and bonded over time through the influences of family, friends, society and life experiences. So, by the time you’re an adult, you can hold very definite views on just about everything with a sense of “no one is going to change my mind”.

The combination of your personal values, beliefs and attitudes are your moral principles that guide you in life and affect your behaviour. However, your views can wildly differ to others and in an institution such as a school, these beliefs may be counter to the values of the school, child development or indeed the law.” 

Let’s look more closely at the differences between beliefs, attitudes and values.

Beliefs

These come from real experiences – we think our beliefs are based on reality, but in fact our beliefs colour our experiences; also, an original experience e.g. when we were a child is not the same as what’s happening now. Beliefs can be moral, religious or cultural and reflect who we are. They can be rational (‘it gets colder in winter’) or irrational (‘I am never going to make something of myself’).

Attitudes

This is an immediate belief or disposition about something specific. It is a recurring group of beliefs and behaviours aimed at specific groups, people, ideas or objects. They will normally be positive or negative and we will always behave that way to the target group. Examples of attitudes include confidence (I can or can’t do something), grateful (I an entitled to / grateful for XXX) and cheerful (I am generally happy / miserable).

Values

These are things (principles or qualities) that we hold in high regard or consider to be worthwhile or right / wrong. They are formed by a belief related to the worth of something – an idea or behaviour. Some values are common (e.g. family comes first, the value of friendship) or cultural (which the whole community have – see video at Study.com here)

The theory

Links to Wikipedia

Expectancy Value Theory suggests you balance your beliefs about something with the value you attach to it. The Theory of Reasoned Action suggests that beliefs and evaluation about behavioural outcomes determine attitudes, and intentions lead directly to behaviour.

Beliefs

Expressions of confidence – can change over time

Attitudes

Learned predispositions to something – are subject to change

Values

Ideals that guide our behaviour – Generally long lasting and often need life changing experience to change

Iceberg demonstrating implicit and explicit bias – from Owlcation

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A Butterfly Life: 4 Keys to More Happiness, Better Health and Letting Your True Self Shine

Times of change can be a challenge, no doubt! Whether it’s a relationship breakup, job loss, or being diagnosed with a serious health issue. Or you may WANT things to be different, but it feels a little scary or overwhelming. The butterfly reminds us change can be beautiful, even necessary, in order to realize our full potential and live our best life.