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Losing Who I Once Was
Over the last few months, while working towards launching my coaching business, one topic kept coming up again and again: the grief of losing who you once were. For many people, being diagnosed with a chronic condition can feel exactly like that. Like you’ve lost your healthy self. You’ve lost your strength and some of…
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The Power of Writing
I’ve started a writing challenge this month. On 750words.com. Every day in September I committed to write 750 words. Every single day. At first, I thought that’s not too bad. My blogs are about that length, 750 words. And then I realised my blogs don’t get written in one day! I usually come up with…
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Willpower is overrated
The definition of willpower according to the Oxford Dictionary: “the ability to control your thoughts and actions in order to achieve what you want to do.” It is—apparently—the power that helps you say no to bad habits and yes to hard work. Hmm… let me think about this for a moment. If it’s a well-established…
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Simplicity
Photograph by Loredana Nemes. Used with permission. Are we making our lives too complicated? Are we measuring, tracking and analysing our lives too much? Are we making health and wellbeing a project? With a deadline?? We count our steps instead of just walking to enjoy the walk, the fresh air and simply moving a little.…
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Is Wellbeing Hard Work?
Yes. No. Definitely. Absolutely not, it’s a way of life. These are my answers to the question above: Is wellbeing hard work? Because I have gone through stages of my life where every one of these answers was the correct one. I believe the answer depends on where you are in your own wellbeing journey.…
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Holding Space
It is the act of letting someone – or yourself – simply be. It means being fully present with someone or with yourself, allowing whatever needs to be felt to be felt. No offering solutions, no judgement, just compassionate patience and undivided attention. There is no need to fix anything. I have learnt in the…
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Courage
How do we define courage? I have been thinking about this a lot recently. When I think of courage, why is it that my mind immediately goes to an image of a mountain climber standing at the summit of Mount Everest? Someone facing extreme conditions, pushing beyond their limits, achieving something extraordinary. But is that…
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