Items tagged with "holidays":

How to Cure a Case of Novemberitis (and Coviditis)

Every November I post my blog about Novemberitis. This year I have updated it to include the new affliction of Coviditis…. Ah November! Such an in between time of the year. Winter (or summer) has left and summer (or winter) hasn’t arrived. The current year is almost over and the new year hasn’t...

Nature and Healing

My mentors at the Sagefire Institute, Michael and Lynn Trotta, once shared a story with me about the Bushpeople of the Kalahari... They are one of the oldest surviving cultures on the planet, well known for their profound connection to the land and their intimate knowledge of the natural world. ...

Nurture Yourself in Nature

What is free, easily accessible and good for your health? Depending on who you are and where you live, you may be thinking: oxygen, wifi, water, sex, happiness, laughter… All of which may be true, but the answer I am looking for is: Nature. Albert Einstein (who was, as we know, a genius)...

Re-entry Issues and Burnout

I truly believe that burnout is verging on epidemic proportions and is under-recognised as the scourge that it is. I will get off my soap box for now (I have developed a 6 week burnout recovery self-study programme in case you are interested in finding out more about how to regain and maintain your own...

I know I am tired when….

I feel relieved and excited when a client cancels.  And over the moon when two cancel in one week. Usually I schedule in a maximum of ten clients a week and when I get a cancellation or two, I try to fill the cancelled slots by offering them to people who I know would like them. But this week, at...

When is this year going to slow down?

Every year at this time I expect things to start winding down. And every year my expectations are shattered. Rather than slowing down and getting more relaxed, I have to speed up; see more clients, produce more reports, do more, see more, be more. In the last two weeks I have signed up four new clients. It...

Coaching Tonic

I was doing some consulting work in another country the whole of last week so I wasn’t doing any coaching.  (Or blogging, as you may have noticed). I often find it hard to give myself permission to go away, or to stop coaching for a period.  I worry that my clients will lose the momentum they have...