Items tagged with "anxiety":

Surviving Uncertainty

Seventeen years ago Susan Jeffers wrote a book called Embracing Uncertainty. In the book she suggested that in times of distress it is helpful to wonder about things generally instead of hoping for something specific. When we hope for a definite result, we become attached to that particular outcome...

How to Stay Sane in a World Gone Mad: 6 Ideas to Help You Stay Hopeful

I have started avoiding the news – in any and all forms. Things are so bad out there that it all feels too overwhelming. And, still, the horrors manage to filter through my defenses. Everywhere there is justified outrage about our incompetent-at-best and pathological-at-worst leaders, horror at...

What’s in a name?

I often struggle with knowing how to name and describe what I do.  'Coach' is such a loose term; there are so many different kinds of coaches and so many different approaches to and philosophies of coaching. Many of them I am deeply respectful of.  Some, unfortunately, I am deeply suspicious of. (I...

Forgetting Fear and Finding Freedom

Sometimes it takes an animal to show you how you are. I have just come back from a blissful five days in Botswana.   Five days of warmth and sunshine, good food, good company and excellent game viewing.  The moon was new, so the nights were dark and the stars spectacular. There is something...