One of my clients was telling me about how she lay awake literally all night having imaginary conversations about an potential ‘confrontation’ with a colleague only to wake up the next again day and find out it had all been resolved. She’s not alone. Many of the women...
Many people come to me because they are dissatisfied with many parts of their lives. They know they want "something", but they don’t know how to get it or make it better. Through our work together - the thing that makes the biggest difference is changing what the...
"When do you not need to invite the whole class to a party?" This was a question another mum asked me on Sunday at a kids birthday party. It made me realise that there’s so many ‘unspoken’ rules in life. Yet it’s these unspoken rules that are the ones that cause us so...
Finding a woman who isn’t in this vortex of stress/anxiety and burnout is rare. It’s almost like a needle in a haystack. I can see it amongst all the women that ever enter my life whether it’s clients, family, friends, colleagues, neighbours - everyone. It’s prevalent...
One of the frustrations I have is that we accept living in the perpetual chaos and cycles of stress/anxiety and burnout. It’s normalised to lie awake at night, to feel anxious about imperfection or people judging you, to go round and round in cycles of anxiety and...
I was speaking with a client today who was describing a repeated pattern of burn out after periods of stress/overwhelm (what I’d call anxiety, but this was their term). I don’t think we talk enough about how masking anxious feelings really impacts us. Partly because...
I’ve been working with a variety of clients at the moment - from food anxiety to health anxiety to relationship anxiety to general anxiety… and there’s been a shift in thinking this week that I’ve loved… “Even if this [awful] thing happens - I can handle it” Imagine...
That anxiety makes you feel, think and do crazy things. But often you don’t understand that what’s making you feel, think and do crazy things is anxiety. You think it’s because of what’s happening TO you rather than what’s happening IN you. I’ll illustrate. Last...
September 2011, I had a total breakdown. I had 3 kids under 3, I was a total crossroads about what I was doing with work, there was a lot of ‘stuff’ going on internally, I felt totally unsupported by everyone and a martyr to motherhood. I had rage, anxiety,...