7 Strategies for personal growth
Is personal development something new?
Back when I was young (many decades ago) you were led to believe that you ‘should’ know most things when you became an adult.
Cherishing the ’40s’ single life.
Cherishing the single life in your 30s, 40s, and 50s; Learning to embrace Self-Love.
There is so much pressure from society to have a romantic relationship that living your life as a single person can become disheartening as we hit our 30s, 40s, and then 50s.
Hobbies can help us 1 day at a time
Beyond your daily routine: Hobbies can help us in so many ways.
Were you a typical child with several different hobbies?
Embracing Self Doubt
Living with the struggle of believing in yourself It is easy to look around us and believe everyone else is full of self-confidence and self-belief, whilst we feel overcome with self-doubt.
As a result, we can end up feeling as though we are the only person in the world with crippling self-doubt.
SAD – Seasonal Affective Disorder
Shining light on Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) The impact of the clocks changing, and the lack of warm weather can become more challenging for some as we move out of autumn into winter.
Daylight hours will become even more minimal for a while and can feel even less with days of grey clouds and constant […]
Setting helpful boundaries – 5 tips
Empowering your life; the art of setting boundaries.
Establishing boundaries is an important part of maintaining healthy relationships and looking after our own wellbeing.
Embrace your uniqueness
It’s okay to be unapologetically you!
We live in a world where fitting in with societies expectations is often valued above individuality and uniqueness.
We can live with our inner critic
When I started to write this, I envisaged my readers hoping for a story along the lines of Buffy the Vampire Slayer coming in to do her deed and getting rid of the demons inside our head.
Unfortunately, there is no Sarah Michelle Gellar AND there are no actual slaying of vampires or demons.
Mental Health – it’s about mental illness isn’t it?
Never have we talked more about the impact our mental health has on us.
The pandemic has bought it closer to home and we are seeing and hearing sports men and women putting their well-being and mental health first.
Perhaps it’s true, and I’m really not good enough?
Could vulnerability actually be my best friend?
Go back 5 years and my thought process would tell me: “I’m not good enough “I can’t do this!
Let’s talk Loneliness
Loneliness is one of those feelings that can creep up on you when you least expected it and can happen to anyone of us.
It is a normal human emotion!
Mental Health – an understanding
I’ve suffered from limiting self-belief and lack of self-confidence for most of my life.
I never believed I was good enough in many aspects of my life.