Perfectionism doesn’t help you. Instead it makes things harder as you put yourself under more and more pressure to measure up. Growing up I loved the film Mary Poppins and watched it many times. I longed to live in Cherry Tree Lane. On long rainy afternoons I imagined what it would be like to… Read More
I was back in Scotland last week and in the area where I went to school for the sixth form. There was one school where I used to cross the grassy divide between the catholic school and the protestant school by bus each week so that I could study sixth-year studies history. The school is… Read More
Hi lovely, My first coaching call as a coach was some ten years before I took my Martha Beck Life Coach training and certification. I was still working as a prep school teacher and was taking a diploma in coaching with Newcastle college. The course covered the fundamentals of one model of coaching and then… Read More
What if you couldn’t have this moment? As part of ‘matinée allowance’ which you can read about here, last night I cosied up on the sofa with my husband to watch the romantic comedy ‘About Time.’ I completely missed this movie when it came out as at the time we were living in Hamburg in… Read More
I was recently speaking to a wonderful client about what we allow ourselves and the rules that we make for ourselves. As a hard-working woman (look, there’s a rule already in the way I’m defining myself or you) do you allow yourself to kick back and relax? Do you allow yourself to do this at… Read More