by Jess | Mar 29, 2023 | Compassion, Super-Helper
Would You Like Healthy Helping Boundaries? then we’d love to see you at Hereford Waterstones Talk & Book Signing ‘The Super-Helper Syndrome’ Do you find it easier to care for others than for yourself? Do you ever feel exhausted or close to...
by Jess | Nov 18, 2022 | Confidence
Do you expect anything in return for helping others? In our new book, The Super-Helper Syndrome: A Survival Guide for Compassionate People, we highlight the many benefits of helping – to the helper themselves. People who help others feel guilty for getting...
by Jess | Oct 3, 2022 | Confidence
Across the UK today 6.5 million people are carers, supporting a loved one who is older, disabled or seriously ill. That’s written in large red font on the Carers UK website, followed by facts: 1 in 8 adults care, unpaid, for family and friends. Every day 6,000...
by Jess | Jul 4, 2022 | Super-Helper
The Super-Helper Syndrome cover can now be revealed . . . Drum roll please . . . There’s a type of person out there who is better at helping others than they are at looking after themselves. Maybe you’re one of them. Maybe you know someone who is. They are the...
by Jess | Jun 5, 2022 | Compassion, Super-Helper
In our forthcoming book, The Super-Helper Syndrome, the final chapter is called the compassionate life. Without giving away too much of a spoiler, that chapter comes back to Jess’ own life history which had popped up earlier in the book. The final chapter starts with...
by Jess | May 15, 2022 | Compassion, Super-Helper
Is being a Compassionate Leader really that useful? Being kinder to others as well as yourself has a place in your professional life as well as your personal life. Researchers have been examining what it means to be a ‘compassionate leader’. You...
by Jess | May 8, 2022 | Compassion, Mindfulness
“ALL I CAN SMELL IS CIGARETTE SMOKE” Have you heard of Phantosmia? I’ve had it for 6 days now, and it’s challenged everything I know about living mindfully. It has quite literally been doing my head in. I wouldn’t mind if I was smelling...
by Jess | Apr 4, 2022 | Mindfulness, Self-Sabotage, Super-Helper
Are you a People-Pleaser? Watch out! If you’ve got strong people-pleaser tendencies, you are likely to accommodate other people’s needs readily. Maybe you suspect someone you know is a people-pleaser, so I will break this down a little further:...
by Jess | Mar 20, 2022 | Compassion, Super-Helper
International Day of Happiness It’s the UN’s International Day of Happiness today and their theme is ‘Choose to Help’ – how perfect for us! Firstly, Happiness Can I be totally honest? I loathe the idea of ‘pursuing’ of...
by Jess | Mar 13, 2022 | Compassion, Self-Sabotage, Super-Helper
Exhausted Helpers – This one’s for you Do you know what exhaustion feels like? Meet Kim, she’s a nurse, or in her words ‘just a nurse’. When she first qualified twenty-three years ago she had bags of energy, but these days she mostly...
