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You may have visited before, but if you haven’t, I highly recommend visiting the Loch View Wellbeing Suite on campus. It’s easy to find, and you are not obligated to spend anything to stay there.
When you enter, you hear calm music, smell essential oils from a diffuser and feel at peace. The lighting is low to calm your mind and prevent sensory overload. It is the perfect way to get away from it all.
The Wellbeing Suite focuses on being accessible and gentle on the senses, which it does very well and ensures tranquillity.
The room is open with private rooms at the side for private study, and the Acorn room overlooks the campus’s lush greenery and lets in natural light. It has been proven that spending time near nature and even looking at wooden decor has a calming effect.
There is an arts and crafts area for anyone to write, craft or draw. The sensory room is serene with a lava lamp, sensory-sensitive toys and weighted blankets to help people ground themselves. If board games are your way to destress or socialise, games like Scrabble, chess, LEGO and card games are available too.
Keeping up with your studies is essential, but you can’t overwork yourself. Taking a break with a weighted blanket surrounded by plants recharges your mind and body for another day.
To summarise, this dimly-lit room in Cottrell welcomes everyone who wants to take a break from student life, or read peacefully on a bean bag.
The suite is open from 09:30am to 16:30 pm Monday to Friday.
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