Today, I got myself in a twist. I’d had what I thought was a brilliant idea and my ego was less than impressed that everyone else did not agree…..! I found myself incandescent & ‘ranty’ and the only thing that saved my sanity and probably my relationship was laughter! On one hand I was consumed […]
I had a plant I was very fond of. I’d had it for eons. I went abroad and in my absence, it withered & dried. I felt that all the effort I’d put into growing that foliage had been wasted. Grief for an old friend was attached to this plant so it was a double […]
It’s certainly a trait of mine to do the same thing again and again and expect a different outcome! I proved this only today. When in training for a sponsored swim I actually needed my chiropractor to point out that with a back injury, if I did the same stroke over and over, I would […]
Is what it takes to make the coaching relationship potent. The joyous part of this coaching is seeing this amazing process work over and over again. Whatever the focus of the piece of work we contact to do, be it career coaching, be it health, relationship, life or finances, there is a tipping point where […]
What if you could take charge of your brain instead of it taking control of you? What if we used our brains in service of our hearts, and not of our fears? From Eastern manta to NLP it is proven that when we raise our consciousness, when choose our thoughts, the effect on our minds, […]
It’s taken me years to work out my solutions to feelings of depression. Now I know if I’m waking at 5am and anxious, I need to take some serious action and soon. I would never, ever dismiss the profoundly affecting nature of depression. I have however discovered that it is me and only me that […]
Whilst this sounds like one of those blindingly obvious statements, it is amazing just how often we do not do so. Often when making a plan for the future, we actually start from where we would like to be or indeed the plan was where we believe we should be. ‘Should’ is an important word […]
Reading of Stacey Bendet and her ‘return to work 6 days after giving birth to her 3rd child’ in Forbes. It was was not the time-frame of her return that struck me but something else. As an individual who is standing up for her right to parent in her own way, I was intrigued to […]
There is a purpose to this phrase for me, it means ‘putting on the mantle’ or being the defender of a particular position. We all have many a role in our lives. In a day I move between coach, mother, wife, supervisor, domestic goddess (!), accountant, confidante, marketing manager, et al ……….& sometimes I don’t […]
Working therapeutically, and, having processed a lot of my past, it’s easy to fall into the trap of believing that I am exempt from denial. Ha! “You do know what you do not know”, is otherwise referred to as ‘unconscious incompetence’. When we move from this stage to knowing what we don’t know, or ‘conscious […]