Discussing a challenge this week in supervision it is suggested to me that I am “in my head”. Often it’s a reasonable place to be because practical solutions and strategies are best constructed there, but this time it wasn’t serving me. Sometimes the best way to feel better means moving away from … [Read more...] about 7 Counter Intuitive Ways To Feel Better
Happiness
How To Be Happy At Work
Whenever I talk to someone about their desire to change jobs the question of money always arises. Clients who are thinking about making the leap from employment to going it alone always worry about their imagined inability to earn the same amount of money that they earn now. At the other end of that … [Read more...] about How To Be Happy At Work
How To Create Happiness
This week my daughter and I were discussing a piece of English homework. She had been tasked with writing an essay comparing the use of power in two poems. As a sucker for poetry I asked her which poems she had chosen and said that I would read them while she was at school so that we could discuss … [Read more...] about How To Create Happiness
Is Social Media Making Us Miserable?
It’s been a typical first week back at work. A couple of clients call to say they are sick and need to rearrange, then a new client doesn’t show up, which happens more often than you’d think. People call me when they feel very low and then, if much time passes between them making the appointment and … [Read more...] about Is Social Media Making Us Miserable?
What You Need To Know About Self Esteem
I have writers block, whatever that is. I knew it would happen, that one week I would be lost for something to write but that I would simultaneously feel the need to keep going anyway. Gazing out of the window I wonder why that man always parks his black Mercedes outside my house, and I marvel at … [Read more...] about What You Need To Know About Self Esteem