Do you struggle to speak up? Feel you can’t speak your truth? You often feel invisible or unimportant to others? You people-please but wish you didn’t? Or you're exhausted trying to be good enough? You might also hate feeling strong emotions rising up in your body. So you stifle tears or say you’re OK when you aren’t really.…
Recently I've been exploring the stress, emotions and insightful moments that can arise when decluttering. Research says clutter is bad for stress and mental health for women. It leads to higher levels of stress hormones circulating in your body. Maybe this explains why you frequently feel tense about an uncontrollable mess around you? Maybe you don't even realise…
These days stress levels in many workplaces seem to be sky high. Many women seem to be under increasing demands to do more in less time, and are likely heading for burnout as they are being burdened with higher workloads (that actually need more than 100% of one person working full-time). However, employees can often feel that if…
We hear a lot about mental health these days, but little about emotional health. Are you a woman who struggles to acknowledge their negative emotions? Instead, you suppress them and soldier on. You may not recognise you're doing this or what the consequences are. My everyday business is helping professional and academic women to reduce and release their…
As a former health researcher I'm all too aware of public messages to "Exercise More!". But I once gave up running after 30 years when I started to feel worse after exercise rather than feeling better or more relaxed! I've revisited the topic of stress and exercise just this week because a few months ago I started cycling…
Grant-writing pressure this year comes on top of many COVID impacts. You probably just want to relax after a strenuous year! So should you be writing grants at all, and if so, how can you make it less stressful? Grant-writing and COVID This year most academics trying to write applications to win research funding are going to feel…
Perfectionism - umm... Are you one of the many women in high-demand or thinking-focused jobs who tend towards perfectionism? Do you always feel you’re not good enough and you have to keep doing MORE? Perfectionism is often seen as a Good Thing – who could argue with not wanting to do a good job? However, the pursuit of…