Confidence, and more specifically self-confidence is a topic that continues to be present for the majority of my clients and when I am talking about my work, it is in the top five things I am asked to expand on. …

There’s a claim! For those of you that know me, you know that I am little allergic to the woo woo. Maybe it’s a legacy from twenty years in corporate, where my pragmatic side was able to excel, maybe it’s because I see so many posts in social media promising…

I am becoming more careful about labelling myself these days. You will often see me refer to myself as a recovering this or a former that. People pleaser has been a hat I have worn for a very long time, and it has taken me almost as long to come…

It’s perhaps rather an obvious sentiment from me that I believe everyone can benefit from coaching. It would be concerning, as a coach, if I thought otherwise. Working with a coach often offers the only time which we dedicate to our own personal and professional development and growth. Think about…

The door metaphor comes up for me a lot, not sure what it is about them, but it seems to help me order my thoughts. When I was starting to learn more about coaching and therefore figuring out if it was something I wanted to be involved in professionally, my…

“Who do you want inside your head… do you want an enemy who is cutting you down… shaming you… or do you want an ally who says I’ve got your back, we can do this, I believe in you.. ?” Dr Kristen Neff. When you put it like that, it’s…

“If you can’t change a situation, change your mind” unknown. Are you one of those people who makes decisions easily and once made stays with them, come hell or high water? …

I’m alone in a boat, it’s a smallish wooden affair with sails and it is being thrown around a fair bit out to sea from a rocky headland. It’s not a raging storm per se, it’s just not the millpond analogy which I would prefer when finding myself in this…

Before we dig in, I feel compelled and obliged to remind you I am not a doctor… no medical qualifications here! I am setting out below what I know from various training I have participated in and from my own personal experience and stories around this topic. And with that…