Career Coaching: Alchemy. Today I witnessed as a client worked their way through a tricky time in their life. By the end of the session, they had worked out that this tricky-bit had given them their gift. As painful as it was to see, it was so good to see this outcome. I can say the same […]
Career Coaching – Relaunching. Many people are showing up here discontented with how their careers are right now. Many of them showed up to their careers advice session at school with high aspirations. Only to have their aspirations, of being barristers, authors, journalists dashed. To be told it ‘wasn’t possible’, that ‘It wouldn’t make money‘, […]
Career Coaching: Do What You Love. A client said yesterday ‘are you treating me like a normal client, Rebecca?”. I stopped taking notes and responded ‘what makes you ask that?”. She said, “well, I didn’t know this would be enjoyable… are we actually getting any work done?” To be fair we had just been giggling, However, This question! After […]
Career Coaching: Routines: So, when the shit hits the fan in your world, what do you do? I’m noticing a good trait in my world. When the shit hits the fan here, when I know I’m in for a stint of it, I double down on my self-care routines. What does that mean? It means putting […]
Career Coaching: Body-Swerving Burnout: I am an absolute Daemon for being stoic and ‘pushing on through’. Now what I’m learning is when I need to quit! Sitting at my desk yesterday I was overcome by a surge of exhaustion. I looked at the client notes needing typing up, the 60,000 words of the book that needed […]
Career Coaching: Business is Booming. Before COVID-19 came along, I was working too hard. As I write these words, they have sunk in a little deeper. The business was booming. I was working with up to five clients a day. By the last client of each day, I would feel like I was totally on-it—adrenaline racing […]