by Jess | Dec 19, 2023 | Compassion, Super-Helper
A Super-Helper’s Guide to Gifting & Receiving If you’re a super-helper who loves gifting, this blog is my gift to you 🎁 But beware, even giving gifts has a darker side. Which of these common super-helper gifting habits do you recognise? 1) ...
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 | 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 | 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...
by Jess | Feb 18, 2022 | Compassion, Super-Helper
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...
