by Ann Brown | Jun 23, 2020 | Skills for Life
Do you sometimes feel isolated or lonely, yet feel there’s nothing you can do about it, because the ‘normal’ connection solutions don’t apply to you? “If you’re feeling lonely, you should join a group or a class,” they say.“Invite a friend round for a meal” ….That’s...
by Ann Brown | May 4, 2020 | Inner Child, Skills for Life
When you meet ‘successful’ people, do you feel inferior and assume they know more than you? Do you assume that what you say would be irrelevant or they’d think it was silly, so you stay quiet ? (and then give yourself a hard time later because of what you could have...
by Ann Brown | Jul 17, 2018 | Skills for Life
In this blog, I want to explore how to get unstuck from a certain kind of stuckness. This stuckness can be relentless, infuriating and downright exhausting. It feels like one leg is held tight in a concrete block, and we can’t move anywhere without huge effort. It...
by Ann Brown | Jun 19, 2018 | Skills for Life
Why is mental health still such a taboo? Why is it ok to say you’ve got a headache, or the flu or a broken leg, but it’s not ok to say you feel depressed ? I’m writing this to share my own experience, and to give you hope that if you’re not feeling well, either now or...
by Ann Brown | Nov 22, 2017 | Skills for Life
Picture the scene; you’re part of a freelance team of practitioners/consultants, or perhaps you still have a part-time job and work in a team. It’s a coffee break, and you’re surrounded by a circle of loud extroverts, laughing, teasing each other and you, and...
