How exploring your past could stop procrastination and accelerate your business success.
It would be wonderful if all our experiences were happy and joyful and nothing bad ever happened to us. Of course, that’s a pipe dream; bad things do happen and we often get hurt. Yet what if we could change how we experienced the traumatic or hurtful things in our...
How a great loss taught me how to find hope and joy through trauma.
18 years ago, I’d just had my first child and then my life hit rock bottom. But today I know that that might have been the best thing that ever happened to me. You wouldn’t believe how many people are walking around out there, who’ve been through something that has...
The fine wool suit that never quite fitted.
10 years ago in April 2010, almost a year after qualifying as a coach, I was still searching for my niche, so I could attract people to pay me for coaching. I felt completely out of my depth, not knowing how to find clients, and feeling like a fish out of water. I’d...
The Art of Taking Up Space
During lockdown I’ve been taking my daughter out for driving practice. She’s doing really well now, and I can’t believe it was only a few short months ago that we drove round and round the local village car park (totally empty!) - stop, start, stop - trying to...
What a sunflower can teach us about connection
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...
How to speak up, even when you feel inferior.
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...
Something holding you back? How to get unstuck.
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...
When it all feels too much: taking on the ‘D’ word.
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...
Staying sane in an extrovert world – keep your tank topped up!
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...
[Video]: 3 Steps To Make Business Visibility Easier.
Are you an introvert who shies away from business visibility? Do you prefer to stay in the background… safely hidden, but not reaching the clients that you really want to attract to your business? In this blog I want to explore Who are you REALLY? and how can you make...
Brain frazzled? Overwhelmed? Here’s how to fix it!
Do you ever feel like your head is full of ideas (brain frazzle?) and you're feeling detached from your body and spinning off into overwhelm ? Today I want to give you a simple technique for overcoming brain frazzle. I think it's a very good way of bringing you back...
First Step To Saying No With Clarity
Being Assertive - What does that mean for you? It’s a huge topic, and today I want to deal with one small aspect of it. And that aspect is how to say No. Well actually, I’m going to talk about the first step in being able to say No. This is such a critical life skill,...
How To Overcome Shyness
Do you find yourself feeling shy and insecure and not knowing who is the right person for you to ‘be’ when you interact with people? Do you ever find yourself putting on an act, pretending to be a certain way, to fit in so that other people will like you better ? You...
Struggling With Doubts? Find Your Confidence Blueprint!
When you’ve got a new offer to launch or promote, it’s natural to have worries and doubts, especially as your inner critic will probably come out to ask you “Can you really deliver this?!” “Who are you to boast that you can actually do this?” Does this sound familiar...
What A Toddler Can Teach Us About Wants And Needs
Do you ever struggle to articulate what you really want to say to someone, and end up body swerving that difficult topic? Maybe you want to ask your boss for a pay rise, or for more recognition for all the work you’ve been doing on a project, or tell someone that...
What is ‘REAL’ anyway?
We can all spot things that are ‘fake’, can’t we? That ‘Gucci’ handbag with the label that’s glued on wonky. Those ‘bargain’ perfumes you can buy from market stalls that just smell nasty. The politician’s smile that doesn’t make it to his eyes. We have an internal...