Nov 30, 2022 | book recommendations, Coaching, gratitude, mindfulness, tools and models, wellbeing
The best way to win me over is books. Recommend me a book, loan me a book, ask me for a recommendation, or tell me you read something I recommended and I’m yours! So when I met someone earlier this year who recommended that I read The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, I...
Nov 23, 2022 | bereavement, grief, my journey, relationships
…is connection. As a very sociable person with many friends and an often exhaustingly jam packed diary, I have still experienced awful loneliness. I remember one time in particular when I was struggling and didn’t feel anyone understood or cared. I knew deep down that...
Nov 16, 2022 | career, Coaching, family, home education, identity, my journey, parenting
A year ago, I was at the end of my tether, completely burnt out and unable to find anything in my life that I could change to make things better. Following Covid, work was busier than ever, my Mum’s birthday was coming up which I knew was going to be difficult, and my...
Nov 9, 2022 | break ups, grief, identity
“Congratulations,” everyone says when you tell them you’ve got a new job. You get cards and presents, a leaving party to say well done and thank you for the work you’ve done, and good luck in your new role. You might have loved the previous job, been good at it and...
Nov 2, 2022 | bereavement, Coaching, death, family, grief, Mums, my journey
Last week would have been my mum’s 62nd birthday. Sadly, both my mum and my grandma died during the coronavirus pandemic. Both deaths were expected. My grandma was almost 94 and had been in hospital with covid-19, but did recover enough to come home for her last week...