When you feel you are just treading water The last year has caused many of us to cancel or delay plans with no guaranteed date for when we will be able to go ahead with them. But it’s not just a pandemic that can cause this. Often plans are derailed, postponed and sometimes abandoned […]
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Feb
Feb
Back to basics Would you buy a house if the foundations were not good? Or buy table with only two legs? No I’m sure you wouldn’t! However, when we fail to pay attention to our own basic needs we struggle and sometimes we fall down. Given the challenges and uncertainty that the world is facing […]
I’m sure like me, you were disappointed to learn we would again be in lockdown. The last 12 months have been tough for everybody and daily life has changed dramatically. However, I’m sure many of you still made New Year resolutions…but how many of your resolutions are still going strong? We often set unrealistic goals […]
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Nov
Nov
So how is your confidence these days? Did you ever think that your confidence was the result of patterns? Well, let me explain … as a young child I used to love playing with my best friend’s Kaleidoscope and was entranced by how the patterns changed just by me turning the end ever-so-slightly; […]
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Oct
Oct
How well are you sleeping? If you didn’t sleep well last night you may be wondering why? Well, it could have been caused by eating too late, drinking too much caffeine or having to endure the incessant noise of a car alarm. However, poor quality sleep can also be caused by stress, anxiety or depression. […]
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Oct
Oct
How can we cope with uncertainty? It’s difficult to know how we can cope with uncertainty in the world at the moment. Nothing seems to be immune from being changed, restricted, or cancelled. As a result we can have feelings ranging from disappointment and frustration to anxiety and fear. Why it’s important to manage our […]
Confidence is a pattern but let me explain … as a young child I used to love playing with my best friend’s Kaleidoscope and was entranced by how the patterns changed just by me turning the end ever-so-slightly; diamond shapes would change colour or become different shapes entirely and it all seemed like magic to […]
Should I stay or should I leave? Whether it’s a romantic relationship or a work relationship, people often stay put long after they know it’s time to leave and move on. What makes us do that? Why do we put up with a situation which makes us unhappy or stressed? There are many different reasons […]
So since I last wrote my blog quite a lot has changed. We have been faced with the realities of a pandemic which changed life for every one of us. Some of those changes have given many of us the chance to spend more time with our families, time to think about our lives and […]
Hi I hope you are staying well. As we now find ourselves with glimmers of forward movement in terms of being able to return to some forms of ‘normal’ life, I wonder what we can learn from these recent months of lockdown. I have recently been asking clients what they think they have learnt from […]