Seedling Ep 2. Understanding self-worth and its impact
This week’s episode is a deep dive into self-worth. Obviously as a self-worth coach, I have a lot of thoughts on this topic! I’ve also experienced first hand the incredible impact being aware of your worthiness can have on your wellbeing. I start with an explanation of what self-worth actually is, how it impacts us when we lack it and how it impact us when we have a strong sense…
Are you making an impact?
Every now and then, I’ll ask myself why I’m bothering with all this blogging and coaching malarky. There’s usually a trigger for this feeling. Maybe an instagram post will bomb, a newsletter triggers more unsubscribes than normal or I’ll just go through a period of time when it feels like I’m just shouting into a void. But then, just when I feel ready to throw in the towel, I’ll get…
The discomfort of success
Well, this is a bit of an ominous title isn’t it? It’s an idea that’s been niggling at the back of my mind for a while now. It started when I listened to an episode of Sara Tasker’s podcast Hashtag Authentic where she interviewed Farrah Storr, editor of Cosmopolitan magazine and author of the book ‘The Discomfort Zone’. In the episode she discussed why it’s important for us to get…
Recognising (and following) joy
Most of the time, I like to think I’m pretty good at recognising what makes me happy and joyful in life. I have certain activities that I know make me smile, but recently a sense of absolute pure joy crept up on me and caught me a little off-guard. In my day job I help to run a wellness initiative which involves running workshops and making PDFs on certain subjects,…
Worthy Humans Unite
Recently I launched a new hashtag on Instagram, #worthyhumansunite with the aim of bringing people together to celebrate our worthiness. From this idea however, grew another one. I decided I wanted to take this community idea and put it somewhere I go to for connection and community these days – Facebook. So (drumroll please) I’ve created a Facebook group called Worthy Humans Unite! The aim of this group is to…
How to stop people pleasing (… so much)
I added “so much” to the title of this because I’m always wary of making grand claims on this little blog of mine. I’m not going to sit here and say, “GUYS. Guys, I’ve figured it out. I know how you can stop people pleasing. And thankfully, it’s concise enough for me to explain in a blog?! How convenient is that?”. No, sorry – just no. Subjects like people pleasing…
Dropping the mask
Hands up if you’ve ever answered “I’m fine” or even “I’m good thanks” to the question “how are you?” and not meant it? I’m visualising lots of you raising your hands right now. It’s human nature. Small talk is just that – small. It can feel very difficult to take a deep breath and admit, actually, you’re not fine. Saying that feels big, like trying to fit an elephant through…
How to take a compliment
There’s something about compliments isn’t there? Something uncomfortable. Something that makes many of us squirm a little and respond with a knee jerk reaction. We might reject the compliment outright, change the subject quickly or immediately return the compliment (something I do a lot). A couple of months ago I went to a talk by Action for Happiness about positive psychology and relationships. I learnt a lot from the talk,…
Compassionate goal setting
I mentioned this here recently, but there is such a back to school vibe this September. I don’t know if it’s always like this and I’ve never noticed before, or if it’s because I launched something new myself, but wow – there is some energy in this month. I think that energy is change… it’s calling for us to develop, learn and grow. It’s making us want to declutter all the…
Self-worth coaching launch
A bit of a different post from me today as today is the day I launch my self-worth coaching services *happy dance*. While I’ve been physically working towards this goal for about a year, emotionally and mentally I’ve been working towards it for much longer. When I started blogging in 2008, I had no real purpose to guide me. I wanted to practise writing before getting a job in writing,…