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The stained-glass window of your mind
My local running spot is the canal that runs from Berkhamsted to Tring. It’s always a slightly different scene as the canal boats change up every few weeks (insight into how often/little I run!). And this week one little boat caught my eye because it had a lovely...
What’s authentic confidence and how’s it different to faking it?
When you look up how to become more confident, you won’t have to search very far before you come across the term “fake it till you make it”. There is some merit to this because confidence isn’t something that you gain from learning the theory alone, it’s something you...
Stop faking it, start feeling it!
I am of course talking about confidence here – what else?! When it comes to confidence, there are many books, articles and speakers that will tell you to “fake it till you make it”. And I totally see where they’re coming from, because confidence is something that...
Free hypnosis track to release negative feelings
I don't think any of us expected to be living in the reality we find ourselves in now. It's an unfamiliar and uncertain time and I know for many people the combination of the health situation, being inside more with our own thoughts and not being able to be with loved...
Every day I was told that I wasn’t good enough
This is the true story of my imposter syndrome, more honest than ever before. It was December 2013 and I was aged 28. I had been working as a PR Manager for an international and highly-regarded organisation for almost three years and had a lovely content marketing...
My OCD became my superpower
Between the ages of 5 and 10, I had two phases of being controlled by OCD. The one I remember the most seemed to be triggered by the misinterpretation I made about what my Sunday School teacher had told me. I am sure these weren’t her words, but what I took as the...
Mind strategies for dealing with toxic work colleagues
This is not an HR blog so I write this assuming you already know the practical steps to take to call out unacceptable behaviour and the people to escalate situations to if colleagues are causing you unnecessary grief. This blog offers some additional ways to use your...
The art of switching hats
How many hats do you wear in a week? Not the cap or fedora kind, but the invisible ones that represent you stepping into a different role. I have different metaphorical hats for my work as a therapist, coach, marketeer, entrepreneur, wife, friend, daughter, sibling…...
Reclaim the long-lost summers of your childhood
Now I wasn’t quite around in the summer of ’69 but when I was a child the summers certainly seemed to last forever and I do fondly look back on them as the best days of my life. So whilst on the packed and sweaty tube this morning on the way to work, I got to...
My January, not Dry January!
If you’re anything like me, you’ll have a few less pounds in the bank and a few more on your belly than you did at the start of December. You’ll be craving your chocolate fix by 10am but cannot bear to see a mince pie again for at least another 10 months. You’ll wish...