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Super-Helper’s Guide to Gifting

Jess — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 10:14:42 +0000

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Waterstones Talk & Book Signing

Jess — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 18:55:40 +0000

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 burnout? Are you the one everyone else turns to: the dependable, competent fixer of other […]

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The Compassionate Life

Jess — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 15:47:57 +0000

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 the story of how, earlier in her life, Jess struggled […]

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Compassionate Leadership

Jess — Sun, 15 May 2022 10:41:32 +0000

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 don’t have to be managing a team in order to consider yourself […]

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Long Covid & Mindfulness

Jess — Sun, 08 May 2022 18:29:48 +0000

“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 imaginary roses, freshly mown grass, or baked bread. All I can smell 24/7 […]

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Choose To Help

Jess — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 14:16:55 +0000

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 happiness. I know it sounds negative, but you see, happiness is a transient emotional state, not a destination. […]

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How to Survive Exhaustion – Part 1

Jess — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 16:58:44 +0000

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 feels, ‘tired all the time’. She is often tearful and feels overwhelmed, […]

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Are You the Fixer in Your Family?

Jess — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 17:34:59 +0000

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Compassion Fatigue

Jess — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 20:51:51 +0000

Compassion Fatigue. 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. It’s a coping strategy of sorts.

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Are you a “Super-Helper”?

Jess — Tue, 05 May 2020 05:46:10 +0000

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