As a career coach I have seen two ways of choosing a career. One is more successful than the other. The first is to do as you’re told, it is to choose the options you were advised to do at school. To choose the degree your family felt would be good for you. It is […]
It is very British to be unable to accept a compliment with any kind of grace. It is also very British to be unable to value our own skills for ourselves. We are in a bizarre catch 22 situation of not being able to hear how good we are because we don’t allow ourselves to […]
This is a message of encouragement for all of you who are about (or indeed have begun already), to embark on a new project. Hold strong! The universe is configured the wrong way round when it comes to courage….. We are only given the courage to do a new thing, once we have done it! […]
As humans and as professionals, we all have our own unique combinations of things that count as ‘hell’. We also all have our own combinations of coping strategies that see us through these disaster zones. My own particular version of hell right now is a 4 year old just gone to Big School, a husband […]
I am often intrigued by the silence that occurs when I ask that a client take the first concrete step towards achieving their goal. They know they have come for career coaching in order to effect change. I know they have come here to effect change. And yet, when it comes to actually making […]
Guilt tends to come with the territory when it comes to returning to work. Though there may be a variety of reasons why a return to work makes sense, many women grapple with guilt about ‘abandoning’ their children. Even if staying at home was never going to be an option, it’s like we are hormonallu […]
The title might sound ‘sacred’ but for the purposes of this blog the sibject matter lies much more in the realms of the profane. When we give, be it gifts on a birthday, or time to a colleague or assistance to a stranger, we generally receive in return. That grin of gratitude, or the sigh […]
How might it be …..? What might it look like if,,,…? What if …….. We paused? If we stopped for a minute or two to reflect internally? What if we disconnected from the musts and the ‘shoulds’ and from the external demands What if we took a few moments to shed everything & to connect […]
Often coaching work involves a ‘permission giving’ role. Usually clients know, deep down, exactly what they wish to do. Once we have excavated to discover what you want and need, then, I can enable you to enable yourself to do that thing….. So today I give you the permission to do just what you need […]
You may feel conflicting and powerful feelings regarding going back to work after having your baby. And according The NCT our culture seems to be failing to ease the transition for us too: ” It’s hard to understand how we’ve created a culture where women are somehow made to feel ‘greedy’ for wanting both a […]