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When we are not feeling good about ourselves, it is all so easy to project our emotions onto those around us through rudeness and generally being unpleasant. Conversely self compassion results in compassion towards others. If you are noticing that you are more short tempered than usual. If you are feeling intolerant of people aroundContinue reading “Improve Your Civility With Self-Care”

Over the past few months I have been speaking to a lot of people across healthcare, individually and in teams. Sometimes reflecting on their experiences and other times looking forward to what is next for them. I have asked them a lot questions about what has been challenging, what has been helpful, what they wantContinue reading “Switch Your Aerial to Receiving and Transmitting Mode”

Balance and perspective have been themes for me this week. The coaching conversations I have been having, have all been related to balance and perspective, and how it is so easy to lose track of either and get caught in a cycle that has a negative effect on our well-being. These attacks on our well-beingContinue reading “Maintaining Balance and Perspective”

I thought I might write a snappier title for this weeks blog, but I could not think of anything, so here it is, same as last week with a number changed. I have just been thinking about our recovery from the pandemic, and wondering if we are now on the up slopes and will emergeContinue reading “Living and working in a pandemic part 3”

I was talking to a friend the other day, and I asked her what she enjoyed about my podcasts and blogs and what got in the way, of enjoying all of them. Now normally I would avoid asking questions like that, but I trust her opinion and as I was thinking of recording a fewContinue reading “Reflections of living and working through a pandemic so far: Part 1”

On the evening of the 28th May 2002, we had tea, Ben was bathed and in bed, so I decided to spend some quiet time playing Championship Manager (now called Football Manager and still a bit of an obsession of mine) on my desktop. I was upstairs in our bedroom, as my old computer roomContinue reading “Jack”

It is has been a few months since I created a playlist and shared it with people. So here we are. I am certain I am not alone when I say music plays such an important part in my life, whether that is listening to old favourites or discovering new music. I listen to musicContinue reading “Something New Just For You”

I say this to myself most weeks, normally just before I start a coaching conversation. Before I start coaching someone I get a tension in my stomach, a performance anxiety comes over me. I want to do the best for them, I want them to see me as being helpful, as being a wise  benevolentContinue reading “If it is not your’s to fix…”

When I was a Staff Nurse in the 1990’s I did not want to be a strong leader. Strong leaders were everything that was wrong with the old ways of leadership. In my mind and in the mind of lots of people strong leadership meant command and control, it meant dominating, and leading with fear,Continue reading “Be a Strong Leader”