Getting Unstuck From A Weight Loss Rut
Since women entered the workforce and became jugglers of careers, family, businesses, relationships and domestic duties, self-care has pretty much dropped off the list of priorities, including finding the time to exercise. Often we can feel selfish for wanting to take time for ourselves and achieve personal fitness and weight loss goals. Many women experience […]
Release Yourself From Your Scarcity Mindset
Janice was a stay at home Mum aged 50 with grown up children still living at home. Her husband struggled to run his own business and was often stressed and worn out when he came home so there was little time to talk and spend time as a couple. He had stopped including Janice in […]
Do You Have Trouble Asking For Help?
Have you ever had trouble asking for help? Maybe you need someone to help you move to a new apartment or you would like a work colleague to help you meet an important deadline. Recently I worked with a client that was having difficult in this area. My client, Julia, had planned a 6-month […]
7 Ways to Let Go of Mother Guilt
Image by Juan Galafa:Unsplash First seen in I am Woman Magazine “Do you think we make motherhood too complicated?” Katie asked. Katie had a full-time job and struggled with allocating time to herself because work and domesticity always got in the way. She said that when she […]
Why It’s Good to have Regrets?
Image: Lea Dubedout/Unsplash What’s been your biggest regret so far? Is it something you wish you did? Or wish you hadn’t done? Maybe you said something to someone in the heat of the moment and now you can’t take it back. We’ve all experienced moments of regret. That painful emotional feeling of wishing we could […]
Preparing for A Conflict Free Christmas
Image: Picjumbo Christmas is a rather chaotic time when dealing with extended family members. Particularly if you haven’t seen them for much of the year, and they turn up on mass, and sadly make the festive day less than joyous. Christmas can be stressful enough even before they arrive so how do you handle these […]
Man’s Search For Meaning: Balancing Freedom and Responsibility (Guest blogger Richard Prince)
Deep within myself have a sense of responsibility, to provide for my family, for me this is meaningful and rewarding. I do this by choosing to participate in a world that can be highly demanding of my time and energy. Yet, I also carry within myself an innate desire to be free of the limits […]
Bouncing Back After Divorce
Image: Milada Vigerova/Unsplash Is it possible to bounce back after divorce? That was the first question my client asked me. Is it possible to heal through a divorce and come out the other side? Nine years ago, I went through my own divorce and it was a perfect storm. I went through some very […]
Mother Guilt
Image: Allie Lehman/DeathStockPhoto Many of us come into motherhood with certain expectations of how a mother should be. Perhaps we’ve modelled this from our mothers or from the magazines, television and movies we saw growing up. Just as we grow into our role as a mother, and our child grows in our belly, we begin making […]
Say No With Confidence
Image: Movie 6/Death To Stock For generations, women have been programmed to be more accommodating and say yes whether we want to or not. We have demands made on our time, our finances, and energy. We feel a certain obligation to say yes because as women we want to be polite, nice, and helpful to […]
