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I’ll never forget the conversation I had, over a decade ago now, with a couple of friends from vet school whilst sat in one of their kitchens. I can even still picture the kitchen fairly clearly, the crockery drying on the washing up rack and my friend making us a cup of tea. One of […]

What I wish I knew years ago I’ve done a couple of social media posts on burnout this week and as I was writing the one that’s scheduled for today (Friday 29th August) a few alarm bells went off in my head. I talk about the 12 stages of burnout and it was a bit

The difference between “I can’t do that” and “that’s not for me.” During one of my recent coaching sessions a client said to me: “I can’t do that.” We had focused the session on an opportunity she’d been presented with recently and she was sharing the possible future impact she might be able to have

And what I’m doing for my birthday this year that I’ve not really told anyone about There’s something that runs through all of our lives to greater or lesser extents that many of us don’t really like to talk about. If I’m being honest, I don’t think we want to acknowledge its presence at all.

How to know whether coaching or counselling/therapy is best for you right now. Whether to seek coaching or counselling/therapy is a query I get asked frequently. I get asked: “I’m experiencing these challenges… what should I do?” and the poor individual is often frustrated when I tell them it’s rarely completely black and white and

How good are you at fully accepting your current reality? Worts, butterflies and all? I was lucky enough to go on a course last year that introduced me to Gestalt (I’ll let you google it yourself). On that course the wonderful facilitators shared two quotes: Firstly, “Change rests on the full, albeit temporary, acceptance of the

When we talk about burnout there can be a lot of emphasis placed on how the workplace can support us, what behaviours we might need to change – better “work life balance” etc. All of this is very worthwhile and important but there are other things that can get in our way, that list is

I think most of us would say that we want to help, and often try to help, a friend or loved one who is struggling. We also might be the type of people who try to support colleagues, people in our community, any randomer looking like they’re having a hard time. However are we actually helping them??

We’re coming up to the final days of January 2025, for me it’s been a month of finding out more about myself – who doesn’t want to spend the most depressing month of the year navel gazing?! While there have definitely been some really uncomfortable, hard AF moments, I’ve also gained some clarity and started