International Women’s Day: From Equality to Equity
March 8th is International Women's Day and the theme this year is Embracing Equity. If like me you were brought up with the fight for equality it may feel a little strange to go to the campaign site for International Women's Day and read that, 'equal opportunities...
Freedom Seeker. Book Review.
"This book is to remind you what it's like to feel free...." a sentence in the prologue to Freedom Seeker. Live More. Worry Less. Do what you love. that really got me thinking. Just this one sentence evoked a whole raft of questions which are still going round in my...
New Friendly Guide: attending your first health professionals conference
Answers to all those niggling questions for 1st time attendees at health conferences
This thing in you…..
Do you have a thing in you that keeps niggling to be heard? Something you would love to do, 'if only'. Something you keep pushing to the back of your mind and finding ways to ignore it? Whatever you do to suppress it somehow it keeps finding a way through all the...
Supporting The Women of Afghanistan
This is an unusual post for me I know but it may be one of the most important. I want to explain to you how and why I'm trying to support women in Afghanistan through supporting the work of the Linda Norgrove Foundation. For those of you who don’t me, for the last 8...
A Daily Spark: Autobiography in 5 Chapters
I'm in the middle of a 2 week writing course at the moment and loving it. It's being run by Beth Kempton who is the author of amongst other things Freedom Seeker. Live More. Worry Less. Do what you love, a book I reviewed recently. At the start of each daily session...
Quietening Your Inner Critic.
Several years ago I wrote a self-coaching guide to Quietening Your Inner Critic. It is one of the most common issues that comes up in my coaching work at one point or another and it was a very popular download. Over the last few weeks I've been revisiting some of the...
The Man in the Arena: an inspirational quote.
Last night I was revisiting some of the blogs I've written over the last few years and came across this one. It is a post I had forgotten about but today it resonated. In my day to day life I meet many people who are working hard to make a positive contribution to...
A Sunday Coaching Conversation
Goodness its been a while since I've written a post! So much has been happening and I've been working on different projects and, honestly, it has felt that over the course of the pandemic the airwaves have been full of people offering advice on maintaining wellbeing....
Stop beating yourself up with negative thinking
Throughout the Year 1: Thriving Not Surviving project we heard from lots of newly qualified Occupational Therapists (NQOTs) about the challenges they faced to their wellbeing in the first months of practice. One of the things which came through loud and clear was, 'I...
Treating Yourself with Compassion
Words are important. They help us understand, breaking down the ethereal into tiny little syllables, then, using those building blocks to reassemble the concept in a way that we can all understand. In many ways, our Pocket Guides are just like that, breaking down...
Flying into the dark.
The nights are drawing in and it's midway through lockdown 2. It started to get dark at 4.30 today. Our hens are tootling off to bed around 4.30 instead of the 9.30 of mid summer. I have a real sense that it's going to be a long old winter. How are things going for...
