Sometimes your perfectionism can work for you. It can work for you when you choose what seems like the perfect choice for you. The choice that feels good, that makes your spirit soar and sometimes even makes your toes tingle. The perfect choice can come about when you reach deep into the well of what you… Read More
Dear Perfectionist, I’m wondering whether you really are a perfectionist, or whether that voice that you need to try harder has come from somewhere else in your life? Perhaps someone you once knew or a well-meaning or not so well-meaning family member? I’m wondering whether you’d rather spend time on the porch looking at the… Read More
I left teaching as we were moving house about every year and a half to two years with my husband’s job. It was becoming really stressful to keep changing schools as every school had its own way of doing things and you spent a lot of time setting up plans and systems from scratch, on… Read More
I thought that being a mother would be easier than it is. After all I: had been a teacher with a class of 36 children at one time. had taught at a couple of the best prep schools in England. had always kept the imagination of my childhood as part of who I was. still… Read More
Another month and it will be time for the summer holidays. If you’re a mum with kids at school you know what a big transition this is. You go from your regular time alone to having the children around all the time. This is especially impactful if you are an introvert and benefit hugely from… Read More