My Blog
Why change is so tricky…
We’ve spent our entire lives gaining experience about what happens in a range of situations. We’ve been through success and failure, built and ended relationships, invested time and energy on our careers, and competed to reach our goals. We know what we like, what we...
What impact will you make?
As kids we were asked what we were going to do with our lives - encouraged to be ambitious, chase success, and make a difference. As an adult, it’s not a whole lot different. The question we are most asked is what we ‘do’. A marker to measure our value to society,...
Making the right decision
A client came to see me recently because she was struggling to make decisions for her child’s future. It felt like she had an overwhelming amount of options and unknowns and didn’t know how to begin to make a decision. Although on the face of it, lots of options can...
Why affirmations don’t work
“Just believe you can do it”, “Think positive thoughts”, “Visualise it and it will become your reality” It sounds easy, right - just say the affirmation repeatedly or visualise your desired outcome and you’ll trick yourself into believing it. Easy. Except that it’s...
Overwhelm and Rest
This time of year is prime season for overwhelm. The start of the new year brings with it the Christmas hangover of lack of routine, change in diet and exercise, lack of downtime, too much or too little people-ing, and the never-ending germ cycle (or maybe that’s just...
The Busyness Trap
Our culture rewards busyness and overwhelm When I ask someone how they are, the default response is often “so busy, working all the hours, totally swamped” and they wear it as a badge of honour. It kicks off comparison. Someone else will pipe up with how busy they are...
My first time
She led me through to the adjacent room and gestured to the therapy bed on the back wall. She covered me with a scratchy blanket as I lay down, turned the lights down low and started reading from the paper in her hands. The background music was slightly overpowering...
Diplomas, certificates and happy clients.
What I've been doing for the last 6 months... This photo was taken on the final day of the final week of the diploma course in Advanced Hypnotherapy and Coaching. It was not the end though, we still had ALLLLLL our coursework and client case studies to...
