My Blog
Building Habits for Success: How High Achievers Can Make New Habits Stick
By stacking habits onto existing routines, focusing on frequency over duration, and celebrating every small win, you can create lasting change.
Burnout - A Case Study of ‘Jennifer’
A case study of overcoming burnout, regaining life balance and finding a sustainable approach to work.
Joy Spotting: An Antidote to Burnout & Stress
Burnout often weighs us down, but joy has the power to do the opposite—it lifts us up. Read more about how you can practice ‘Joy Spotting’.
Self-compassion as an Antidote to Burnout
Did you know the antidote to burnout is self-compassion. Here’s a simple practice to get you started.
Breaking the Burnout Cycle in the Workplace
The theme for World Mental Health Day this year is “It’s Time to Prioritise Mental Health in the Workplace.” Here's 5 Strategies to stop burnout in its tracks.
Are You Avoiding People? Recognising Social Withdrawal as a Hidden Sign of Burnout
Burnout doesn’t always look like exhaustion or a lack of motivation...
Breaking the Burnout Cycle: 5 Practical Strategies to Restore Balance
Actionable strategies to help you break the burnout cycle.
Harnessing the Power of Gratitude: A Guide for Thriving Professionals
Incorporating gratitude into your daily routines can transform the way you approach challenges, stress, and relationships.
Unlocking Inner Clarity: How Focusing-Oriented Therapy Can Help High Achievers
Focusing-Oriented Therapy is an experiential modality that connects you with your inner wisdom, facilitating healing and growth.
High Achievers: How Is Your Mental Wellbeing? Find Out with This Simple Tool for Resilience
In our modern day world it’s easy to get caught on the hamster wheel of go-go-go, only to realise that in all the busy-ness, your mental wellbeing has been neglected.
The Coping Triangle: A CBT Tool for High Achievers to Stay in Control Under Pressure
Epictetus posited ‘It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters’. Here is a tool to help you to respond in helpful ways to life’s challenges; ‘The Coping Triangle’.
Reflecting: Celebrating Achievements and Learning from Challenges
Reflecting on achievements and learnings can help you to stay on track with what’s most important to you.
Mindfulness: Cultivating Presence in the New Year
It’s still the dawn of a new year…. a great time to explore how mindfulness can infuse your year, and life, with an ongoing sense of presence and clarity.
Self-Care: Starting the Year with Healthful Intentions
Your invitation to take time to set the tone for the months ahead, with the power of self-care, to transform your wellbeing.
The Power of Self-Reflection, with a New Year here
I share some tips and ideas for effective self-reflection; drawn from my therapeutic philosophy, practices, and experience.
6 Qualities to Cultivate this Christmas Time
Your invitation to reflect, or consider, in the lead-up to the festive season is: How do I wish to be this Christmas? What qualities & attitudes am I aspiring for?
Mindful Approaches to Holidays: Nurturing Self-Care and Boundaries
Self-care and boundaries are game changers in moving through family celebrations, which can be fraught with complicated emotions.
Navigating Year-End Stress: Strategies for Corporate Workers
The pressure to meet year-end targets, finish projects, and manage personal and professional obligations can become overwhelming. Let’s chunk down 3 key tips for effectively managing end of year stress.
Navigating Grief During Holiday Times and Special Occasions
Grief can have a big impact on holiday times and special occasions, especially in the first year following your loss.
Disenfranchised Grief and Validating Unseen Loss
Disenfranchised grief is a term used to describe the unique pain that arises when society doesn’t acknowledge or validate a particular loss.
Nurturing Growth Amidst Grief: Understanding Lois Tonkin's Model
There is no one way to grieve. Tonkin’s model of grief helps us to understand how we can continue to grow around our grief.
Understanding the Evolving Stages of Grief and Healing
If you’re navigating grief, there are some evolving ideas around the stages of grief and how we heal, that you may find supportive.
Practical Steps from Two Models of Grief
Robert Neimeyer's meaning-making model of grief, and the Dual Process Model.
Navigating the Uncharted Waters of Grief
Exploring 4 Models: The Tasks of Morning, Growing around Grief, Making Meaning & The Stages of Grief
How to use Journalling as your Own Inner Coach
Journalling can be a supportive and therapeutic way to engage in personal development and self-therapy…
Different ways to journal (with examples)
Different examples of journalling styles, including stream of consciousness and letter to self journalling.
20 Journal Prompts for Self Awareness
Some prompts to support you as you establish your own journalling practice.
Journalling as a tool for emotion regulation
I will sometimes offer journalling to clients who resonate with writing, as a complementary activity alongside therapy. By writing down our thoughts and emotional experiences, we can ‘externalise’ them (get them out of our heads and out into the world).