Heading for Burnout? 28 Signs

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…

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Your Negative Emotions: Are You Paying Attention?
It's so beneficial if you can acknowledge how you really feel

Your Negative Emotions: Are You Paying Attention?

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…

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Grant Stress: 7 Tips for Female Academics

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…

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Should Women and Girls Express Anger?

Anger in Women & Girls I wonder if you saw the recent comments by Donald Trump, that he thinks young Greta Thunberg needs Anger Management Therapy to deal with her indignant feelings at the lack of action by the world’s leaders on Climate Change? I see part of the backlash against her as more about the leaders themselves…

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Self-Care or Selfish? Struggling to Find Me-Time

Self-care or Selfish? Those who know me well could say that in the past I’ve been one of the worst culprits for putting everyone else’s needs before my own. I just want to help and see people happy! That can’t be a bad thing, surely? Well not at face value. But while many women in today’s world know…

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