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How to Understand and Make Life Balance Work for You

Living our best life sounds like so much work. Especially when it’s already so hard to find life balance with our current life!

Making the most of the day every day, giving every moment 100%… It sounds tiring, at the very least, doesn’t it? I can feel the weight upon my shoulders just typing that sentence.

Well, it doesn’t have to be hard. Honest.

Life Balanceis one of those highly-valued aspects…

4 Ways to Get Back on Track After Illness

When I completed the last round of Bring About Balance, I was asked for advice about illness. She asked how to get back after an unanticipated disruption that shuts you down for a bit.

Now, we’ve all had periods of low-productivity. I’ve have a cough-cold thing for 2 weeks, and have been sleeping on the sofa instead of writing articles. So today, I want to share 4 key ways to ensure you get back…

How to Use Self-Care To Help The People You Love

In the UK, May 13-19 is Mental Health Awareness Week. I was working on this check-list already, and this ‘perfect time to share’ pushed me to finish it.

All the details below are included as an introduction to the check-list. The main 66-item list itself is in the pdf below: Click the bottom of the post to download it: no sign up or weird stuff required.

Will This Help You?

Ever feel like a…

How To Use Psychology for Life Project Success

For those who have taken a psychology class, you may have heard of something called “Miller’s Law” or just “the 7 (plus or minus 2) rule” about human nature. Today I’m going to apply this memory rule to those (big or little) life projects or self-development quests.

Don’t worry if you hadn’t: I’d never heard of the first term until this week, and the second was a tiny part of my BSc on models of…

When in Doubt… Believe in Yourself.

There are so many things I could have written about this week. But one specific phrase keeps returning to my mind, resonating with something inside. 

“When in doubt… believe in yourself.”

It’s a nice phrase, and puts an unusual spin on the norm. Yet, I didn’t hear it from a self-help audio or a conversation between friends who like Marie Forleo and her phrase “Everything is figure-out-able”. It…

12 Quick Resets to Improve Burnout when your Energy is Flagging

We all have moments, days or sometimes even weeks when we feel exhausted. Mentally, physically, or emotionally. Sometimes, all three. And in the current day and age, burnout is one of those words that gets thrown around quite a lot.

Remember when we used to get “stressed” and anxiety used to be call “worry”? Times have changed. Mental health symptoms, overall, haven’t.

Low energy is practically…

6 Vital Reasons Why Showing Up Matters Most

“FIND YOUR PATH. PLAN YOUR STEPS. SHOW UP. HALF-ARSE IT. PROGRESS.” ~ me ~

I’ve been thinking lately about Showing Up.

Whether we are seeking some deep inner truth about ourselves, trying to progress on our life mission, or trying to improve our physical and mental health by changing our diet… Showing Up is required.

There are a few different viewpoints with Showing Up, even form those of us who…

5 Curious Things You Didn’t Know About Yourself

I’ve always been that person who strives to understand. It’s a curiosity that I never questioned, it was so innate in my soul. I craved insights and understanding about myself.

We Curious Souls Are Not Alone

I’ve seen this curious nature labelled under various categories. INFJs from the Myers Briggs Personality Test. Virgos in star signs. Spiritual people. People who practise mindfulness.…

Stuck and Not Sure How to Trust Yourself? Start Here.

We’ve all been there: Stuck, lost and no longer able to trust our own decisions. 

You feel completely exhausted, uncertain what to do to get out of this slump. You’ve bought the self-help books but are too exhausted to read them.

How can you make the right choice? You have ideas, but what do you know? 

It’s not unusual to lose that sense of trust in yourself. But that’s a skill we need to get…

The Truth About “I Should be Making Progress Quicker.”

Those of us with an ‘inner pull’ or an itch to ‘be more’ have a firm idea of what ‘progress’ looks like.

We seek out validation of our path: mostly in the form of some kind of ‘pay off’ for making specific choices. We look for a sense of achievement to prove our efforts are “worth it.”

If I don’t eat chocolate for 2 weeks, I expect to see ‘progress’ as waking without headaches, clearer skin or to…

How to Make Progress Without Doing Anything More

One of the most frustrating aspects of the productivity and organisation tips out there is that they often focus on doing more; on new habits to begin or things to try out on top of your current responsibilities.

But if we’re seeking support for getting more done or being faster, I don’t want another thing to add to my to-do list. So instead of adding more, I focus on the things I have been doing…

The One Reason you Should Commit to Taking Baby Steps

If you know me, you’ll know a favourite mantra of mine is that ‘baby steps add up’.

I don’t tend to succeed if I try to go for big shifts. Some people get a sense of momentum from big changes. Personally, they exhaust me.

So if you’ve tried the new year’s resolution, the big “right that’s it” moment and created a grand plan to change your life… and it hasn’t worked…

Hi. You’re in the right place.…

5 Myths Holding you Back from your True Success

Being a life designer and re-definer, I’ve come to learn that there are a lot of assumptions, stigmas and myths that stop people from actually making the changes that light them up.

Since they block us from making progress on our meant-for-more journey or quest, I thought I’d go through them one at a time. Let’s talk about the reality behind the commonly-held-beliefs that become a constant noise.

6 Steps to Make Any Progress in the Right Direction

We spin our wheels for a few reasons, but the are some to things consider no matter the cause. We put so much pressure on ourselves, and that sense of ‘direction‘ can be so difficult to ‘tame’ or ‘fine-tune.’ Equally, we may feel clear in the path ahead, yet still find ourselves stuck on taking the actual next step.

Here are a few things to consider when you’re spinning your wheels, not making…

How to Improve Yourself Despite the Shame of Self-Help

If you’re anything like me, you’ve explored the realms of “self help” and “self development” because of that inner fire pulling at you to be more. One of the common difficulties we get caught up in is the assumptions, culture and stigma associated with self development. The shame and the secrecy that can sometimes hold us back. 

This may look like avoiding the topic with friends, thinking of…

How To Calm Down When Your Body Is Shaking & Your Mind Racing

We all experience anxiety and anger: it’s part of being human. However, sometimes this can take over. Often, it looks like shaking hands and a wobbly voice, heat flushing under our skin and racing thoughts we cannot control.

It’s so uncomfortable, yet it comes naturally…

I don’t need to explain why it’s important to manage this adrenaline response… whatever stress or difficulty you may face, we…

The Biggest Problem with Promising to “Change my Life!”

Most of us have tried to change something in our lives over the years, be it at New Year with some resolutions, in preparation for a birthday, or just a spur of the moment decision.

I know I have.

The Depth of the Pull

For me, there’s a deep inner pull that I am meant for more, that I am supposed to do something. A sense that I should be reaching for my potential. This has driven to study at…