Blog Posts
Why coaching? What is it?
Simply put, coaching can help you achieve specific goals or outcomes, personal and professional, through a dialogic process of questioning, reflecting, clarifying, challenging, and decision-making about what you can do.
Why are we all burned out? What can we do about it?
If I am oblivious to the internal drivers within me, the things I ‘need’ to thrive, it follows then that I am likely to miss opportunities to satisfy these drivers. It also follows, that in my bid to achieve, or please others, or fulfil expectations, I might completely neglect these areas – my needs, without even realising.
Symptoms of burnout: founders, leaders, high-achievers, type A’s…what should we look out for?
It doesn’t demand McKinsey style workweeks or PhDs, nor does it exclusively happen to high-achievers and type A’s. Unfortunately, with the current cultural sentiments around anxiety as all part of the “new normal”, burnout has slunk into the background as something we all hear about, but rarely give attention to.
What are Some of the Best Relationship Books? Here’s 6 to Consider
In what ways are we making our partner feel loved, even as we balance the demands of work and our own needs? When we are seeking clarity on life’s tough decisions, we can, and should, turn to professionals to help guide us, but we should also expand our mind by picking up a good book
I’m exhausted. How can I improve my time management?
A perennial time optimist, I’ve a horrible habit of underestimating how long something will take. When I’m asked how long something will take, I’ll often respond “10 minutes”, despite it probably requiring more like 20 minutes.
How to calm my anxiety? How embodiment can help
I learned that rather than running from my anxiety, or hating it, finding it irritating, annoying, and beating myself with a stick about it, I should actually, indeed, just accept it. But more than accept it – this wasn’t going to be another way of settling.
Relationship issues: Should I stay or should I go?
One of the most challenging yet profound areas for practising embodied integrity is in our relationships. Being able to discern exactly what is true for you, and who or what is in alignment with you, is likely one of the best muscles we can train.
How can I make better decisions? The Embodied Integrity way
…the bigger, more existential questions – what do I really want to do with my life, what sort of partner do I really want to be with, what do I envision true health and relaxation to look like for me – these paralysed me.
What is Embodied Integrity?
To be honest, whole, and undivided; to be a tangible or visible form. In other words, to be an honest, whole and tangible form of you. Not somebody else, not living a lie, not abiding by societal messages, cultural pressure or ‘shoulds’, but a whole and solid version of you. That is embodied integrity.