Kintsugi is an ancient Japanese art meaning ‘joining with gold’ used to mend broken ceramics with a gold powder and laquer mix. The gold glue highlights rather than hides the repair. Putting things back together in a new form is a metaphor for resilience in life. A broken...
Perfectionism is a series of behaviours we put in place to cope and reassure ourselves in stressful situations. It is learned from childhood based on the core belief “I am only OK if I get everything right”. It leads to rules and beliefs that can result...
Feeling of personal wholeness increases when our environment, mind, body and spirit are in balance.Balance is a state of equilibrium.How do you get yours? The equinoxes are the only time when both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere experience roughly equal amounts of daytime and night-time. Equinox...
Yoga, meditation, KonMari, Hygge, bullet journal… To some extent the aim of these practices is to find and/or create space.In your body. In your mind. In your surroundings. In your heart. In your day.We might think about space as a luxury: outdoor spaces, free time...
The self-coaching minute will run a series of Self-coaching questions linked to climate change.It starts today with generic questions.More questions will follow in the months to come to challenge your beliefs, your habits, your fears, to identify tensions, contradictions and resistance, to explore your own...
Last December, I encouraged you to select 3 words to describe your intention for 2021. The first one as a direction to follow and the second and third as the threads, themes or signs under which your journey would take place. (Check out the Self-Coaching...
Cycle touring is how I have replenished and reset every year for more than a decade. Over the years, I have risen to the challenge of more elevation. During my last cycling tour this summer in the North of England I had plenty of time...
What will you create this summer? I have loved investigating questions that would apply for each season this year. They have helped me pay more attention to my body, my self-talk, my energy levels and my environment. This week 🕑 The Self-Coaching Minute is dedicated...
What can you learn from your work relationships?Last post from the Job Crafting series of 🕑 The Self-Coaching Minute! This week the focus is on work relationships and communication at work, i.e. relationship crafting. * * *Job crafting is about shaping our work so that...
Can you change how you perceive the impact of your job? This week The Self-Coaching Minute continues with the Job Crafting series and explores the meaning of our work and how we can change the way we perceive its impact, also known as cognitive crafting. If...
