by Ann Brown | May 4, 2020 | Being Yourself, Inner Child, Inner Critic
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 | Apr 20, 2020 | Getting Results, Inner Critic
Last week, still in lockdown and self-isolation, we had our food shopping delivered by a very helpful Asda driver (complete with gloves and full filter face mask). As he unloaded the shopping and we carried the bags inside, I noticed that as well as stuff we were...
by Ann Brown | Nov 22, 2017 | Inner Child, Inner Critic, Self care
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...
by Ann Brown | Nov 22, 2013 | Inner Critic, Skills for Life
Do you give yourself a hard time because you don’t seem to get things done as quickly as other people ? Or you put yourself down because you need lots of rest and breaks and get easily frazzled by a fast pace of life? Maybe you’re a small business owner, and you’re...
by | Sep 12, 2013 | Inner Critic
I’ve been successfully avoiding sitting down to write this blog for a few days now, but I really HAVE to do it today. Just one more cup of tea, then I’ll sit down and do it. I pace up and down the kitchen waiting for the toast to pop up (I decided I’d make some toast...
by Ann Brown | Jul 3, 2013 | Inner Critic
I was standing in the big conference room, with my training course buddy, preparing to take my turn in our exercise on ‘reliving your experience of Strength’ … It was my turn, so… I stepped forward and… BIG BLANK. No thoughts came to me. Then I...
