“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...
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:...
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...
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...
Are you the ‘fixer’ in your family? Whilst there’s some form of tension in every family, there’s also usually one person who plays the role of the fixer, peacemaker or mediator. Is this you and how does that play out? If this is you, it’s likely that you...
Compassion Fatigue for the Masses Is anyone else tired of the news, feeling deflated or powerless to do anything about the state of world? There’s actually good reason for this – we can only cope with so much ‘trauma’ before our mind and body begin to shut down....
Hands up! Who else has experienced the Imposter Syndrome at some point in your life? Mine first revealed itself when I started a ‘posh’ all girls’ secondary school and I felt totally out of my comfort zone. It continued when when I was given a senior HR manager role...
So, it’s the New Year . . .How’s your headspace? A. Still in a bit of a Netflix / Baileys / chocolate fug with the duvet over your head? B. Ready to take down the decorations and gently embrace 2021? C. Clear as the full moon sky and as sharp as a craft...
Resilience 2020 Congratulations!!!. . . because you are much more resilient than you thought you were! Celebrate that for a moment. Please. Because you’re probably vastly underestimating how well you are coping. REASONS TO CELEBRATE Perhaps you have spent a...
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