When I was invited to do a short, before-school workshop for teachers at a local school, as part of their well-being week, I jumped at the chance. We hear a lot about pupil well-being – and rightly so, in my opinion – but I also believe there has never been a more important time to focus on the holistic well-being…
Any excuse to talk positive psychology, and I’m there! Recently, I’ve been lucky enough to have been invited onto our local radio station, Marlow FM, a couple of times (and I’ll be back there again after the summer), and to have been interviewed for Osborne Cawkwell Tuition too.
It’s been my absolute pleasure recently to have spoken to a number of businesses and organisations about how to be happier and why it matters. I love having the chance to share what I’ve learnt in a really practical way, and the feedback I’ve had so far has made me blush! One of the things that has been noticeable during…
Using your character strengths as a way to have a ‘life-well-lived’ was a concept that blew me away when I was first introduced to it several years ago. And it remains one of the things that resonates with me most about positive psychology. It just makes complete sense. Why wouldn’t you use the things you are naturally good at on…
We’ve all had a job we’ve hated for one reason or another. My own personal low came during one of my first jobs after I’d graduated. It was an almost exclusively female environment and my co-workers were lovely. The boss was not. From the hundreds of examples I could give you, one that really sticks out happened at a ‘team-building’…
Working as a coach has made me hyperaware of just how many people suffer from a lack of confidence at one time or another, and also how paralysing it can be. In fact, I’d say it has reared it’s ugly little head at some point with 95% of the clients I’ve worked with, even when they’ve originally approached me to…
Are you guilty of postponing your happiness? Of thinking it’s the destination you’re heading for and it’ll be there waiting for you eventually? Too many people cling to the self-sabotaging belief that success equals happiness, when actually all the research points to the opposite. Happiness equals success. Don’t forget that a positively-wired brain is 31% more productive than a negatively wired…
I’m a huge believer in collaboration and think that one plus one can definitely equal more than two. So it is with absolute delight that I can announce today that I have become one of the trusted coaches working with The Ambition Plan. The Ambition Plan has been set up for millennial women who dream of doing something more creative…
Trust. It’s a topic increasingly linked to happiness, but those five little letters can arouse huge suspicion – sometimes with good reason, as I recently found out to my cost. However, I’d argue that’s all the more reason to be trustworthy. It’s been an interesting couple of weeks for me when it comes to how I think about trust and…
Life is nothing if not unpredictable, and those curveballs often seem to come out of nowhere. This was certainly my experience when, within 24 hours, my family was struck with two separate, unprecedented and potentially insurmountable crises. It’s not a period I look back on fondly. And yet, rather than crumble, I realised the only way that I could really…
